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Author's profile photo Craig Cmehil

SDN and BPX blogs get an update!

It’s been on the list for awhile now and last night it finally went live! When browsing the weblogs now you’ll notice a few new changes. The first change will of course be the easiest to spot. image Now the placement of the icons, etc may alter a bit over the next couple of days as our UI specialists and designers start to get feedback from select groups of beta testers but the functions are now there! The second update, which is not so obvious, at least in comparison to the graphic above is found in our Topic areas. For example if you go to the ABAP Weblogs topic page click on the RSS feed icon . image As you can see we’ve decided to use the excellent Feedburner service to enhance our existing blog topic feeds. Along with this service they have a rather extensive “Ping Shot” and so now you will start seeing the extensive collection of SDN and BPX blogs making their way into the outside world to places like Technorati, you can view our Technorati Profile as well. image Thanks again Feedburner for the excellent support and a special shout out to Steve for all your help! ** We are still adjusting and modifiying so if you are wondering why something is not happening or is happening feel free to leave a comment – suggestions are always welcomed! Feel free to subscribe to the new feeds as you like, the old feeds of course still work and will continue to work!

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Craig -
        Looks like Digg only likes the URL parameter in lower case, for some reason it doesn't work right with http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&URL=https://SDN and BPX blogs get an update!

      but if you switch it to:
      http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=https://SDN and BPX blogs get an update!

      it works fine.
      -d

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Gotta say it...Nice work! Blogs are getting better, SDN loads faster, Rails got it's own forum -:D I'm happy...Please keep on making improvements...Got all my support.

      Greetings,

      Blag.

      Author's profile photo Mark Finnern
      Mark Finnern
      Hi Daniel,
      Thanks for pointing that out. We have fixed it and I created my first digg using it: http://digg.com/tech_news/SDN_joins_the_Digg_Universe

      Sweet, Mark.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Mark -
        Thanks for the fix.  It's really great to see SDN starting to poke it's head into the broader blog-o-sphere.  Already Dugg the blog you posted up there.  I also added a comment to the SDN forums ( Another way to Link to Digg )--- Nothing is never enough for us customers.  😉  Thanks again for all the hard work.  See you in Vegas.
      -d
      Author's profile photo Nigel James
      Nigel James
      Great Craig, I like the way you now get a title for the delicious links. It is a tad annoying that the pages here have the SAME title ie 'SND Developer Network Blogs' even if they are permalinked. Any chance of passing that on the the busy beavers in the background?

      Thanks again. It just keeps getting better.
      Nigel

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Thats's on our fine tuning list and I'll be workin on that over the next several weeks.
      Author's profile photo Thomas Alexander Ritter
      Thomas Alexander Ritter
      Looks greats. But I noticed one thing. When you open the rss feed in a browser it will not display it as a xml file. I assume that somebody forgot to set the content-type to "text/xml" in the http header. Some RSS reader might be picky about that.

      cheers
      Thomas

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Give it a try, it's an extra feature from Feedburner, not only that but they help make the feeds safe regardless of "odd characters"

      🙂