Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Help, my updated posts keep bubbling to the top of the Planet

I kept noticing that whenever I updated certain posts they would end up at the top of the Planet Plone RSS feed aggregator. I haven't dug too deeply into the issue, but it seems to be a mixture of the way the Planet is configured and the way default blog feeds are presented by Blogger. Thankfully, the default Blogger feed format can be easily changed.

Previously the feed I used for Planet Plone looked something like this:
http://pigeonflight.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/plone
Which resulted in a feed enclosed between feed tags like this:

     <feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'...

My new URL now looks like this:
http://pigeonflight.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/plone?alt=rss
The new approach (ie. appending ?alt=rss) resulted in a feed with an rss tag like this:

    <rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"...

I did not delve into what other things get changed by using '?alt=rss', but the most important outcome is that the "Planet" (Planet Plone) is now safe from the occasional updates and revisions to my blog posts.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Blog formerly known as "Flight of the Pigeon"

Just letting those who read this know, my blog has a new address and a new name. Today I re-christened my blog, the blog formerly known as "Flight of the Pigeon" is now known as "David Bain's Blog". I've decided to make use of my domain name, so you can visit this blog at http://blog.dbain.com, though the long winded, pigeonflight.blogspot.com will still get you here.

I will continue to run this on Blogger because it works well for (uhm) blogging, plus it's really easy to administer.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Mic Check!

Brief history, I used wordpress before it was called Wordpress. (anyone remember b2?). Setup a blog for my sister, which she used for about a year.

I've had this blog for a while, doing nothing with it, since my plan was to run my own blog using Plone or something "pythonic"....

So... here I am starting my first official blog post using blogger. More will come.

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