Daily Archive for March 19th, 2007

Symfony news roundup

Published on 2007/03/19 in Symfony. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
  • Symfony 1.0.1 is out – should be a straight install on top of 1.0.0 job.
  • Symfony Forge is in development – looks pretty cool so far and will hopefully help keep track of the rapidly growing number of plugins.
  • Fabien spoke at the PHP Quebec conference and has published slides in English and French.  Nice introduction to symfony.

Using RSS to track comments

Published on 2007/03/19 in Web. 0 Comments

Brian Kelly has posted about tracking new comments. This is a topic I’ve been wondering about for a while and haven’t been able to come up with an elegant solution. For my own blog, I subscribe to the comments RSS feed and get informed of new comments by email – that’s great, but what about other people’s blogs?

WordPress provides feeds for each blog entry but I’ve not found a good solution to tracking comments on other people’s blogs. I could add the feed to my news reader but then it gets filled up with stale feeds. The solution forums use of sending an email when a new post is added would work well, but that just seems intrusive and frankly not very Web 2.0.

I did just find a site called co.mments which looks interesting. Maybe I’ll try out a couple of techniques to see what works. At least until Google figure out a better interface for time-limited RSS feeds which automatically tidy themselves up.