Category Archives: Writing

Article Theft 4

A while ago, I wrote an “article”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html on RSS and the Java “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ for O’Reilly’s “java.net”:http://java.net site. This morning, my Google blog search called up an odd search result – it seems as though a certain Dr. Charlie Peng had copied the article wholesale for his BlogSpot blog, ‘IT Architect’. It looks like a [...]

My article on IoC up at Java.net 1

I’ve written an article giving a brief introduction on IoC for Java.net, and its been published today. For those of you already familiar with the concept it’s probably not terribly useful, but hopefully it’ll serve as a gentle introduction for those that have yet to look into it.

Second article on RSS and Java up 2

Over at java.net, my second article, More RSS for Java is up.

Weather Forcasts via RSS 0

Just found the site “RssWeather.com”:http://www.rssweather.com/, which as you can guess provides RSS feeds with weather forcasts. Its mostly centred around the US and Canada right now, but they have a feed for “London(RssWeather.com’s RSS 2.0 Feed for London)”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&icao=EGLL&alt=rss20 which is handy for me. It will also make a great example for my next article on [...]

Changes to the Informa API and the next article 0

Work is proceeding on my second article on the “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ – I’m currently refactoring the FeedManager class whose use forms the basis of the article. The FeedManager‘s job is to manage multiple feeds, and handle their lazy loading (which will fix a major flaw with the simple code presented in “my first article(Java.net – [...]

My Article on OnJava.com 0

Seems my “article”:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/08/08/rss.html on RSS and Java that I wrote for “java.net”:http://www.java.net/ has made its way over to “OnJava.com”:http://www.onjava,com/, albeit only via a link from the front page. The second instalment will get finished sometime next week – it covers more aspects of the Informa API and the use of OPML files.

Apologies – not sure who to though 0

I’m off to the “Leeds Festival”:http://www.leedsfestival.com/pages/index.asp this weekend, and I was supposed to have the first draft of my second article on Java and RSS done before I go. Whilst no-one was waiting for it especially, I’m very annoyed at myself that I didn’t get it done it time. All the background research is done, [...]

Article published 0

I’m famous! Well, kinda…anyway, my article on Java and RSS using the Informa API is up at Java.net.

Slow day today 0

As I’m putting the finishing touches to my article on Java & RSS. The submission deadline for the alterations is Monday but I’m hoping to finish it tonight so I can have the weekend clear.

Article submission 0

I have just started the process to submit an article I wrote on RSS and Java. Lets see how it goes…