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Radio2 category callbacks


Implement callbacks that are called after we've saved a category feed.

This allows us to use a category to manage a feed for a separate site, like Scripting News, as explained in this post.

Callback: config.radio2.users.dave.callbacks.afterBuildCatRss.scriptingNews, on shreveport.

This feels just right. Took all of about ten minutes to implement. I would have spent all day writing yet-another RSS generator, when I had an app, Radio2, whose only purpose is to generate RSS.

Still have a bit of cleanup to do. I want to change the title, link and description on the feed to point back to the Scripting News home page, not to the linkblog, but that's not a huge problem (the feed should work anyway).

And I really want to break with Google Reader. It's like a ten-ton weight around the neck of RSS, just sitting there, unwilling to move. I never had that many readers on Google Reader anyway, and these days most of the flow is coming from Twitter.

Parts

radio2suite.initUser

radio2suite.buildRss


Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2012 at 11:03 AM by Dave Winer.