Comments on: How OraNA.info Aggregates Blogs.Oracle.com

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:50:19 +0000

OK guys, implementation done. OraNA now aggregates the blogs.oracle.com feed. I have also created the OraNA updates Twitter channel (RSS) to publish site news and recently added blogs.

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:51:43 +0000

@Jake yes, I was thinking only of blogs whose URL starts with http://blogs.oracle.com. Employee blogs that are not on blogs.oracle.com will continue to be aggregated by OraNA.info. So, no need to buy me lunch, however, having a lunch with you is always a treat.

@Chris Hmm! In addition to the main feed, your blog is also aggregated under the category “Java Tools and Frameworks” http://orana.info/category/java/ (RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/orana_java) I sure can see your latest blog post there. The RSS feed has the latest 20 entries at any time.

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By: Chris Muir

Chris Muir — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:21:29 +0000

Sounds good to me Eddie. Darn all that Oracle blogging activity!

By the way, when we read from the aggregator, is there a limit in the number of posts it sends us on a request? I note you're definitely aggregating my blog (because I can search the OraNa.info history), yet my posts don't always come through the aggregator.

Thanks for the great service. I really appreciate the time you put into these things for the benefit of others.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01:55 +0000

FYI, non MT blogs, like ours are not yet aggregated into blogs.oracle.com. I think Carl Backstrom is also in that boat, since his is Blogger. Please keep the non-MT blogs in OraNA.info. I will buy you lunch at your restaurant of choice here or during OOW

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:37:10 +0000

@Fuad @Bradd thanks for your feedback. @Bradd you should brush up on your math skills

By: Bradd Piontek

Bradd Piontek — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:28:54 +0000

I would second what Fuad said. I also like the idea of the ‘recently added” feed on oraNA.info. Your spam protector made my head hurt this morning: ten Plus Four? I had to think about that for a second. I was sure the answer was “good Buddy”

By: Fuad Arshad

Fuad Arshad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Eddie that would be great and it would avoid duplicate posts. orana.info has been my one stop shop for everything oracle anyways

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:18:33 +0000

@Gary what I can do is to add a new category to OraNA.info called “Recently Added” for example. This category will have a feed that you can subscribe to. Every time I add a new blog to the aggregator, I will also add a quick post to the “Recently Added” category on OraNA.info. I just have to remember doing that, though.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:35:25 +0000

Its good for me. With the regular feeds, is it possible to get a feed of new feeds. By that I mean, a feed where we can see that ’so and so’ has been added to the aggregator. There’s some blogs where I subscribe to the comments as well as the main feed, so it would be nice to be alerted when someone new is added to the fold, so I can decide what i want to do about them,

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:09:04 +0000

@LewisC you’re reading my mind