Re: [Rsslibj-developer] RSS feeds: what are they good for?

[Joseph B. O. <jo...@en...>]

Well, there are a lot of resources on what RSS is. As far as 1000 
positions... wow. How much turnover is there?

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Alexander Prohorenko wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm a Java developer. I'm running a mid-sized site of job vacations and
> would look to add such a modern feature there as RSS feed for current open
> positions. We also have an additional system of news and events. I think it
> also would be great to add an RSS feed there, too.
>
> However, I'm not very good with RSS, it's nearly all I know that my
> Thunderbird mail client can lookup different blogs using RSS and show up to
> me. :) Would you advise me any resource to read or will give a brief
> explanation of benefits of RSS feeds? I'd be very thankful for that.
>
> I've visited http://enigmastation.com/rsslibj/ and found a short piece of
> code there. But I'm a bit confused about channel.addItem () method. How much
> items should I show there? For example my job board has 1,000 open
> positions. Should I list all of them there? This could be a pretty long
> list.
>
> I'd be thankful for your advices.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Alexander Prohorenko.
>

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