RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary (sometimes referred to as Really Simple Syndication); a set of XML communication standards created by Netscape. RSS allows a web developer to share the content on his/her site. RSS repackages the web content as a list of data items, to which you can subscribe from a directory of RSS publishers. RSS content usually includes news stories, headlines, content from discussion lists, or corporate announcemnets and is primarily used by news websites and weblogs. RSS "feeds" can be read with a web browser or special RSS reader called a content aggregator.

By Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D. quot;We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.quot; -- Dan Quayle Visual Studio.NET 2005 BETA 1 was released to the MSDN Subscriber community on July 1, 2004. Here are some of the latest quirks, topics and information I have discovered. This article will be updated on a regular basis as new items...   Read Article.

Printer Friendly Version Have you ever wanted to generate RSS from a Stored procedure? It's easy, until you get to the RFC822 date requirement! Believe it or not, I could not find this anywhere-- I actually had to cobble it together from pieces myself. Enjoy: IF OBJECT_ID('[dbo].[fnRFC822Date]', 'FN') IS NOT NULL DROP FUNCTION...   Read Article.

by Clay Shirky 01/07/2003 A persistent criticism of open source software is that it is more about copying existing features than creating new ones. While this criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is clearer on debugging than on design. This note concerns an attempt to apply debugging techniques to feature requests and concludes by describing...   Read Article.

by Roy Osherove Download Source Code Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 274 times Rating: 2 users 5.00 out of 5 Next I'll show how to use regular expressions to parse a Web page's HTML text into manageable chunks of data. That data will be converted and written as an RSS feed for the whole world to consume. Finally, I'll show how...   Read Article.

by Ben Hammersley , author of Content Syndication with RSS 02/28/2003 The curse of metadata, once you get over the intractable issues of trust and standards and categorization, is that you never know how much to give. For the weblogging community, which produces masses of metadata, mostly without knowing it, this is especially true: we could be giving...   Read Article.