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Yahoo! Pipes are ready

After 3 exhaustive days of learning and trying to hack into Yahoo! Pipes, I can finally say that things are all set up for jReader's feed delivery.

During the development of these Pipes, I came across several obstacles - such as the inability to store temporary variables within a Pipe or Yahoo!'s 200 runs in 10 minutes limitation.... read more

But this project is missing classes and all that stuff...

I started coding jReader with a single purpose in mind - to create a new kind of RSS service that will be as fast and responsive as possible. Because of this idea, I chose not use use any kind of PHP frameworks or even objects at all.
(With the exception of the built-in MySQL library.)

For this reason, you will not find the usual MVC architecture in this project - and I must admit it would scare the hell out of me if I saw such a code.... read more

The next generation RSS reader concept

The problem

Today, almost all websites have some sort of an RSS feed to keep you informed of their latest news.
On the other hand, users may be overloaded by all sorts of irrelevant information that arise from this trend.

The other part of the problem would be a magazine website with multiple areas of interest.
Such a magazine would report hardware as well as software news, Apple as well as Android information, etc.... read more