Excuse me in advance since it may be OT. I am putting together a small RSS reader using Flex. I'd like my application to look like "automatically" updating if there is any new post coming in for the RSS feed that the user is currently viewing, etc..
What I can think of on the top of my head is using HTTPService in my Flex piece to constantly pull the RSS feed and check against the <lastBuildDate> value to decide if the data have changed. I wonder if there are any open-source (or free, which means the same to me anyhows;)) server side solutions that can push the data? Or is there any smarter way of doing this purely on the client side? Thanks and have a great Friday!
