52 posts tagged “atom”
2008
HTTP Cache Channels (via) Interesting extension to the HTTP caching model by Mark Nottingham: caches can be told to subscribe to an Atom feed which alerts them to cached data that has gone stale. Group invalidation is also supported.
2007
Updates to template_utils. James Bennett’s Django template_utils library now provides tags for consuming external RSS and Atom feeds. Combine with template fragment caching for an instant mashup written just using templates.
RFC 5023: The Atom Publishing Protocol. It’s done!
Atom Models. Building Python classes that act as utility wrappers around data stored in an lxml DOM object.
Google AJAX Feed API (via) Simple cross-domain proxy to allow JavaScript to access any publically addressable syndication feed, with the same logic as Google Reader providing normalisation.
Triplr. Ultra simple GET-based web service for converting RSS / Atom / RDF / Microformats+GRDDL to HTML / ntriples / RDF / RSS / JSON / Turtle. Small pieces, loosely joined.
Pipes. New Yahoo! service for combining and remixing Atom/RSS feeds using a really sophisticated drag-and-drop UI.
Gmail Atom feeds. Could be useful as a pipe for creating an e-mail interface to an existing Atom-consuming application.
Atom API for AOL Journals. AOL are doing some really cool things with the Atom Publishing Protocol.
2006
(UNCLASSIFIED) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (via) The US intelligence community argues for Atom.
DeWitt Clinton: On RSS and Atom. Atom is lossless.
Atom as a Case Study. Notes from one of my favourite talks at ETech.
2004
XML.com: Identifying Atom. The hidden complexity of URIs is fascinating.
Introducing dbagg3, an Atom-powered client/server aggregator. Way smart aggregator built on top of Atom and XSLT.
Atom discussion minutes
The minutes from the Atom/W3C discussion in New York have been posted online. Unfortunately the default formatting is pretty difficult to follow. I found it a lot easier to figure out who was saying what after applying the following CSS (using the test styles bookmarklet):
[... 81 words]Why the W3C wants Atom. Matt May explains all.
W3C proposes an Atom working group. Can you smell the flames yet?
Mark Pilgrim’s Atom feed (via) Atom + XSL + CSS = a self explanatory feed that functions in a browser.
Hypocrisy: RDF and the Atom API. Russell really doesn’t like PUT and DELETE.
2003
Atom autodiscovery test suite
Mark Pilgrim has released the Atom autodiscovery test suite, comprising 148 tests:
[... 130 words]Atom API
Mark Pilgrim has posted an extensively documented demonstration of the current draft of the Atom API, a REST style web service interface for posting to and editing weblogs. It looks like it will be a fun standard to implement; the basic idea (as with all REST services) is to obtain as much leverage as possible out of the HTTP standard, using lesser known methods such as PUT and DELETE in addition to the more common GET and POST. The authentication mechanism is particularly interesting: since Apache’s support for digest authentication requires an additional module that many hosts may not provide, the Atom guys have created their own based around new Atom-Authenticate HTTP headers.
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