SlashBoot RSS feeds introduced
Just a quick article to announce the deployment of RSS feeds on the site. They are available from each Category page, which makes logical sense when you think about it. I might also make them available from the article pages, but I like the title mechanism when I make them available from the Category pages.
It is something that I had planned to put in place a while ago, but just never got around to it. At some stage, I will get an RSS feed reader installed and then start tinkering with XSLT and CSS stylesheets to accompany the feeds. If you wish to access the feeds directly, they are located in directoriess according to the category number, under the /rss/ directory. For example, to access the feed for the Unices category, you would go to /rss/1/feed.rss, which I hope makes logical sense. The RSS feeds are generated on the fly, with all values being read from the database allowing the RSS feeds to be an additional interface to the site articles. That is, after all, what RSS is intended to serve as, is it not?
Other recent additions
I've also gotten around to checking through my logs for the creation dates of a lot of the articles on the SlashBoot site. I still have some to hunt down as a lot of the trails seem to end around the 20-22 of April, which is when I transfered everyting to the database. I'll have to look through my backup archives to pinpoint the articles to more accurate dates, as and when I get time. I'm a bit stressed right now, as I have a loft conversion going on at my home and the house only has half a roof. Trust the heatwave to subside into torrential rain at this time, leading to much dripping around the house. Bloody builders! Bloody weather!
I've also done a bit of fine tuning and added a manual flag for articles to be displayed, or not, in the article menus, the sitemap page and the RSS feed lists. Oh and I've created a behind the scenes sitemap.xml generator for use with the Google sitemap.xml
I think the next feature to appear, is likely to be the comments facility, which I have reservations about, mainly thanks to the comment spammers that infest the web. I already get a ridiculous amount of spam comments and messages, offering me WOW Gold and various love treatments and I'm not overly keen on encouraging yet more opportunities for the Chinese spam merchants, which is where the vast majority originate from.
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