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Wite your own RSS News/Blog aggregator in <100 lines of code

The internet is a great way for people/entities to publish information. An RSS reader is a tool to help funnel only the information that you think is important to you. You can subscribe to RSS sources (Blogs, news sites, businesses, authors) by choosing
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 7 Comments

Do you like reading a blog author? Retrieve all blog entries locally for reading/searching using XML, XSLT, XPATH

If you like reading a particular blog and want to read more from the same author, you can subscribe to the blog using RSS and any number of blog readers, such as newsgator , intravnews . This will get a few current entries (RSS is limited to 15 entries
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Use a simple XSLT to read the RSS feed from a blog

On most Blogs, there is a link called “Syndication”,”RSS”, or “XML” that is the RSS feed. Click on that, and you see an XML document that contains some recent blog posts. This simple code reads the RSS feed for my blog, does an XSLT transform of the XML
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 13 Comments

How to protect your web site pictures from being saved

A customer emailed me: As you are an expert I have the following question that maybe you know to answer. My wife is an artist making cards for every occasion. We have now the idea of selling these cards through internet. Showing these cards on a gallery
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 8 Comments

Hear your web site being hit

Somebody in the world is browsing the internet and hits your web site. How do you know? IIS provides logging services (WinXP: Control Panel->Admin Tools->IIS->Web Sites->Default Web Site. Rt-Click, Properties, Enable Logging, choose the kind
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Blogs get 300 hits per hour: Visual FoxPro can count.

I wanted to get a picture into my blog, which isn’t run by my web site. It actually gets posted to 2 URLs: http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia or at http://weblogs.asp.net/calvin_hsia I can view and edit my entry in HTML, so I just added an IMG HTML
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