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RSS Forward (RSSFWD) shutting down
by admin on Nov.22, 2009, under News
The free, online RSS Forward service is shutting down in February 2010.
That’s according to their web site.
The service forwards an e-mail each time your favorite web site updates its RSS feed. They say it costs too much money to maintain, eats up technical support time and is consuming a lot of bandwidth. There is only one glimmer of hope – that someone will either buy or partner with them to keep it going. If you can help, drop them a line.
Use SimplePie as a standalone without a module in Drupal 5/6
by admin on Nov.22, 2009, under CMS, Drupal
SimplePie as a standalone entity in Drupal.
Why would you want to do that?
Well, modules that use SimplePie as part of their coding reconfigure it to make it work with their module. Some even publish feed items as nodes – and that’s fine if that’s what you want to do.
But what if you just want to put a simple feed in a block or a page without all the baggage from a module? Sorry, folks, those modules won’t help you do that. Their sole reason for existence is to take SimplePie and mold it into their code – not use SimplePie by itself.
However, you can get around that. (continue reading…)
