Are you writing RSS feeds by hand? Are you using Visual Studio 2005?
I've found myself doing both esp. when giving presentations. During my recent webcast "Adding Feeds to Your Website" I created a static feed from "scratch" and added SLE sorting and filtering to the feed.
Whoever has done live "coding" in a presentation knows that typing a lot of boilerplate text is error prone as well as it bores the audience.
Fortunately, VS 2005 has Code Snippets, which does the boilerplate typing for you. It works similar to IntelliSense with the added twist that the user can create custom snippets. I created a couple of XML Snippets that are RSS-specific. Download the rss.snippet file and import them VS 2005 via
Tools | Code Snippets Manager | Import...
Now create a new Xml file and type
<[ESC]rssfeed[TAB]
Which means type less-then followed by the ESC-key to cancel the IntelliSense drop-down, then type rssfeed followed by the Tab-key which will expand the word to
<rss
version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Feed name</title>
<item>
<title>Item name</title>
<guid>http://example.com/0</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
<description> </description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
I used Snippy to help me create the snippets.
I hope this is useful to some of you.
