This weekend I finally got RSS feeds working on the site. Post a comment here if you have problems using them – make sure you let me know which reader you are trying to use.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, this web site is built using Python and Django. Turns out the Django framework has an outstanding syndication framework. Following the documentation and samples here:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/syndication_feeds/
it took very little time to actually get them working.
I have two RSS feeds: a feed that shows the last 10 postings on the blog and a feed that will show the last 10 postings for a specific tag. All total, I don't think it took 50 lines of code to make this happen. Just one line in the urls.py file, then two new view classes.
Django is seriously cool. If you haven't checked it out yet, it is here: