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Feedpedia Online beta release

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

So I decided to put the Feedpedia RSS reader online at http://www.feedpedia.com even though it’s not finished - there’s still one major part left: My Account which allows the users to create their own Today page with the feeds they want, and which will integrate smoothly with the Feedpedia Windows application.

When the last 72 hours of work were useless

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

So while I was reviewing what’s left to do for Feedpedia, I found a major inconvenience in the code I’ve written for caching the RSS headlines of a feed, one that slows the application unnecesarily, and which I can avoid by taking a different approach. As a software developer, I can’t possibly think of keeping […]

Caching RSS feed headlines

Friday, November 25th, 2005

It was definitely something wrong about Feedpedia retrieving the headlines over and over again, every time a feed was selected for viewing. Also, there was no way for it to remember which headline was viewed and which was not, and mark accordingly. Or to count the number of viewed headlines vs. unviewed.
So I had to […]

Beta test Feedpedia - get a free copy

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

The project I’m working at the moment is named Feedpedia - an RSS reader. It’s not really a codename, it’s the final name.
I’m working on it for almost a month, but I still don’t want to give details about its features or screenshots until I release the beta, which will happen soon.
In the meanwhile […]