James Robertson of Cincom Systems will be discussing the world of RSS, Atom and Blogging in general at:
Australian Computer Society NSW Branch
joint OOSIG - FOSS SIG meeting:
Date: 15th July, Thursday
Time: 6 for 6:15pm.
Place: ACS NSW offices.
Lvl 4, 122, Castlereagh St
Sydney 2000
Phone: 9261-4411
You can RSVP by leaving a message on the following number - 0413-821-454 or via the contacts for the OOSIG and FOSS SIGS
This session will discuss blogs, blogging, and some of the associated technology (RSS in particular). The focus of the talk will be whether blogs are something of relevance - for project managers, marketing staff, or developers. I expect an interactive session with many questions, as well as an interactive introduction to what a blog is. I'll be taking the tack that blogs are, in fact, useful and worth investigating. I have my own blog - and I also sponsor other blogs on our site
A quick check of the InfoWorld site, the O'Reilly site, Microsoft or Sun will demonstrate that many of the industry analysts and evangelists have started blogging - what this talk will explore is whether anyone in the audience should be.
The talk will reference BottomFeeder - an open source RSS/Atom news aggregator. Other technical issues covered will include:
- Development issues (dealing with RSS, character encoding issues)
- Deployment issues (building a deployable and installable application)
- Cross platform issues (Unicode, character sets, libraries, look and feel)
- On the fly updating of a deployed application
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