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

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

Well, it depends. Usually, you'll want to roll off only as may as people 
are likely to look at. For a job site, though.. heck, show all 1000. If 
someone's scanning, they'd want to see them all. And don't forget to cache 
the RSS output!!

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Alexander Prohorenko wrote:

> Actually that's mostly therotical question, we didn't reach 1,000 positions
> yet, but we're pretty close. The main question was - how much to show up?
>
> On 9/23/05, Joseph B. Ottinger <jo...@en...> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>
> --
> Alexander Prohorenko.
>

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