Hi Jim, Its great to have a Lead Software Engineer on board --- I like the idea of teaching RSS fetchers to behave they way we want :-)
Good hackers can do real magic! Thanks Jim. Cheers W 2009/11/12 Jim Tittsler <[email protected]> > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 16:54, Wayne Mackintosh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This answers Ray's question -- yes we can aggregate RSS feeds in > Mediawiki. > > The downside is that the page takes a wee while to load -- so perhaps one > of > > the things our Blog workgroup may want to consider is optimisation of how > we > > list feeds from different WikiEducators. > > This may also get faster after the server migration since we can teach > the RSS "fetcher" to cache results rather than getting a fresh copy of > the feed on each page hit. > > But optimization is still good. > > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
