Archive for the 'atom' Category

On APP and GData
Monday, June 11th, 2007

My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications.

A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP.

First, GData [...]

Time for an Atom Publishing Protocol homepage?
Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Is it time to start work on a more robust homepage for the Atom Publishing Protocol efforts?

A Google search for “atom publishing protocol” lists the top several results as:

Atom Publishing Format and Protocol (atompub) Charter – historically important and it has a link to the spec itself, but that’s about it the [...]

Mod Atom?
Saturday, December 9th, 2006

By the way, that last post was in the context of a series of ongoing experiments with the Atom Publishing Protocol.

I switched back to Java (over Python) for the back-end “Atom Store” portion. Not particularly because I wanted to write more Java, but because I really wanted to use the Abdera [...]

Aggregated blog and news feeds
Friday, November 3rd, 2006

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to [...]

It’s an APP world, after all
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Darren Chamberlain writes:

I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff.

Thanks for [...]