Jennifer Curtiss

Using RSS as a means to create automatic dynamic content with minimal work fascinates me. Most bloggers probably create feeds on a regular basis - most likely at least a Flickr feed, and possibly del.icio.us. These provide JavaScript services to parse the feed into your site; however, with the prevalence of server-side scripting, why not have fun and parse the feed into your blog yourself? It's super-simple, and after looking at a couple of references, I parsed my delicious feed into my about page in mere moments (although I could have just as easily put it in a CF blog template). Before I explain the steps, these following references helped me: "Parsing RSS Feeds Using ColdFusion" by Domenic Plouffe (http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/issue/219.htm) for the CF tags to work with XML. If you are unfamiliar with traversing XML, check "A Really, Really, Really Good In... (more)