RSS Export

"Its genius is its simplicity – and simplicity, whether in furniture design or software design, is a high virtue." (Zeldman)

If you call it "Really Simple Syndication" or "RDF Site Summary", what RSS can do is provide news and actual information in a uniform way for concentration on one place, the News Aggregator on your Desktop. The Lehrstuhl Brügge infrastructure now can do this, too: BBoards and the Wiki-Webs (and the SVN repositories) now provide RSS feeds. Use them to keep the overview over various BBoards and Webs in one place.

• Specification (RSS 2.0): http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
• Aggregators: Google Directory - RSS Readers
• NetNewsWire (Lite) for Mac OS X: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
• More feeds: http://www.syndic8.com/ (for example the Heise RSS- feed: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf)

Mostly an RSS feed is hidden behind a - logo.

The history of RSS is at least obscure: There are basically two different competing standards both called RSS. One branch (0.91->0.92->0.93->0.94->2.0) concentrates on simplicity (really simple syndication) while the other branch (0.90->1.0) tries to create a rich site summary based on semantic web ideas. Keep that in mind if you develop your own RSS applications or feeds.

TWiki

The TWiki-Webs can export their newest topics via a RSS feed as following:

/projects/lehrstuhl/twiki/bin/view/[WEBNAME]/WebRss?skin=rss

For example:

• Lehrstuhl-Web: /projects/lehrstuhl/twiki/bin/view/Lehrstuhl/WebRss?skin=rss
• Dwarf-Web: /projects/lehrstuhl/twiki/bin/view/DWARF/WebRss?skin=rss

If the Web is read-protected, you can access the feed with adding your Notes-login and password into the URL (remember that then your password is going over the net as plain text):

http://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@wwwbruegge.in.tum.de/projects/lehrstuhl/twiki/bin/view/[WEBNAME]/WebRss?skin=rss

BBoards

If the BBoard inherits from the BBoard Template (ask ls1.admin for that), it now has automatically a RSS-feed export (Thanks to ChristophAngerer !!). You can get that feed with the following URL:

https://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@tum.globalse.org/projects/[PROJECTNAME]/[BBOARDNAME].nsf/rssfeed.xml?Open

For example:

• Lehrstuhl-BBoard: https://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@tum.globalse.org/projects/lehrstuhl/infra.nsf/rssfeed.xml?Open
• Softnet-BBoard: https://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@tum.globalse.org/projects/softnet/discuss.nsf/rssfeed.xml?Open

If your feed Aggregator doesn't support https (NetNewsWire does, but unfortunately NetNewsWire Lite doesn't), you can also access the BBoard-feeds with http://... (remember that then your password is going over the net as plain text).

SVN (experimental)

An experimental perl skript now exports an RSS feed out of SVN-repositories using the following URL:

/cgi-bin/svnrss.pl?homeurl=[SVNURL]

For example:

• Arena SVN: /cgi-bin/svnrss.pl?homeurl=http://arena.globalse.org/svn

If the SVN is read-protected, you can access the feed with adding your SVN-login and password into the URL in the parameter (remember again that then your password is going over the net as plain text):

/cgi-bin/svnrss.pl?homeurl=http://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@arena.globalse.org/svn

SVN (non-experimental)

There is offical support for xslt generated, customized rss feeds on your svn repositories. For details contact ls1.admin@in.tum.de

For questions on readers, feeds or compatibility problems mailto: renner@in.tum.de.