Synopses & Reviews
Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds In Action is an innovator's guide to application development with blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies. The book introduces the new ways of collaboration enabled by these technologies and focuses on the fundamental concepts needed to understand how the technologies can be used in real world applicaitions. Blog and wiki server internals are covered in depth, newsfeed formats, and web service protocols for blogging are covered in depth and from a developer's point-of-view. Also covered are a variety of techiques readers can use to monitor blog conversations, such as newsfeed search engines, and ways to join in the conversation such as comments, trackbacks, and Weblogs.com pings. At heart, Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds in Action is a programming book. It relies on numerous examples in Java and C# to teach the reader how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds, how serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps – small but immediately useful example applications based on blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies. Applications include a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging software builds, and more.
Synopsis
RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of news feed formats and publishing protocols-the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications. In keeping with the behind Manning's "In Action" series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging softwarebuilds, and more.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Synopsis
An innovator's guide to application development with blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies, this book introduces the new ways of collaboration and focuses on the fundamental concepts needed to understand how the technologies can be used in real world applications.
Synopsis
RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of news feed formats and publishing protocols-the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications. In keeping with the behind Manning's In Action series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging softwarebuilds, and more.
About the Author
Dave Johnson is an experienced software developer, technology enthusiast, and expert in blog technologies. He started blogging in 2002 using Java-based blogging software that he developed called Roller. Roller now drives the ground-breaking employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, is used by thousands of bloggers on JRoller.com and other sites, and is a successful open source project. Dave now works at Sun where developing Roller and promoting blog technologies is his fulltime job. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.