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About Me  Working with ColdFusion since version 4.5  Senior software developer AboutWeb  10 year anniversary for DBG  Build enterprise level ColdFusion apps  Work with SQL, Oracle, XHTML, CSS, Video  Designer background  Learning Machii framework  Adopting OOP principles 2. DeSign By George, Inc

What are we covering  Why use RSS Feeds?  Some different options for using RSS Feeds 1.Just grabbing and saving raw RSS Feeds 2.Using Yahoo Pipes to grab the feeds  3 different ways to apply RSS feeds using ColdFusion. 1.Application.cfm 2.Application.cfc 3.Using in Machii framework. DeSign By George, Inc 3

What is RSS?  Really Simple Syndication  First use’s appeared in newspapers  Editors realized that they could take small excerpts from other papers and gather a wider reach, thus capturing a larger audience.  Online there are millions of new pieces of content produced each day. DeSign By George, Inc 4

History of RSS  Invented by Netscape when they were trying to get in the portal business.  Netscape wanted an XML format service which would allow them to get news stories and information from other sites and add them to theirs.  Netscape dropped it when they decided to get out of the portal business. DeSign By George, Inc 5

History of RSS  Userland Software picked up and continued to develop RSS bringing us to RSS 2.0 as we know it today.. DeSign By George, Inc 6

Why use RSS Feeds  According to Robin Good “No RSS no party.”  RSS feeds can be an alternate communications tool.  Bring more visitors to your site.  Give the user control because they subscribe without .  Users are alerted when fresh content is added.. DeSign By George, Inc 7

Options for displaying RSS  Displaying through JavaScript aggregators. 1.Will not be picked up by the search engines  Using hosted feed services 1.Yahoo Pipes 2.Xfruits.com. DeSign By George, Inc 8

Display RSS ColdFusion opt 1  Display using Application.cfm 1. Make sure you have application scope variables turned on in ColdFusion administrator.. DeSign By George, Inc 9

Display RSS ColdFusion opt 1 2. Create a site in Dreamweaver or a project in cfeclipse. 3. Create your Application.cfm file in the webroot of your site. 4. Go and grab some XML feeds. Either the URL or save the file. 5. Now test your work by running utilityfile.cfm. DeSign By George, Inc 10

Display RSS ColdFusion opt 2. DeSign By George, Inc 11  Display using Application.cfc 1. Make sure you have application scope variables turned on in ColdFusion administrator.

Display RSS ColdFusion opt 2 . DeSign By George, Inc Create a site in Dreamweaver or a project in cfeclipse. 3. Create your Application.cfc file in the webroot of your site. 4. Go and grab some XML feeds. Either the URL or save the file. 5. Now test your work by running utilityfile.cfm

Working with Yahoo Pipes  Create a Yahoo User account  Login at the URL below  DeSign By George, Inc 13