The Delphi Community Blog Aggregator is a gift to the Delphi Community. This service does one thing: it collects all the blog items from as many blogs as I can find and sorts them chronologically. That's it. It's handy for quickly seeing what's happening in the Delphi Blogsphere. The aggregator scratches an itch I have had since I started tracking blogs. I found it very tedious manually checking one blog at a time. I would much rather see a scrolling list of "Headlines" from the entire community to get an instant view of what's happening and where. Then I can choose to check out a new blog posting if I wish. You can never predict who will suddenly post something very interesting. I have provided a handy web interface so it isn't necessary to have it on your computer in order to use it. You just need a browser.
For Delphi Developers who have Delphi 2005, you can add the link to the web based aggregator right in the "Welcome Page" of the IDE. Borland's Steve Trefethen has told us how . If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you can see some screenshots of the aggregator displayed right in the Delphi2005 IDE. Enjoy!
For those developers who choose not to have Flash installed on their
computer, I have provided a
downloadable executable version of the Blog
Aggregator that has the Flash OCX embedded in it. So you can see the
Flash movie without needing Flash globally installed on your computer.
The downloadable executable version is a good example of how to embed Flash functionality directly into your Delphi application. Notice that the app runs from the Tray Icon (in case you are wondering where it went).
I intend to develop the actual aggregator utility further (as opposed to the aggregation display clients)...
I would like to entirely automate the process. Once I am sure that all the kinks have been
worked out, I will automate the total aggregation process including FTPing the xml result file to its destination.
Then we should be able to keep the aggregated list up-to-date on a daily basis.
If you are a Delphi Blogger and don't see your blog on the list, send me an email, and I will gladly add it. Nobody will be turned away.
Adam Markowitz=http://blogs.borland.com/adammarkowitz/Rss.aspx
Aleks La Rosa=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/aleks/Rss.aspx
Allen Bauer=http://blogs.borland.com/abauer/Rss.aspx
Anders Ivner=http://blogs.borland.com/andersivner/Rss.aspx
Anders Ohlsson=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A//homepages.borland.com/aohlsson/blog_beta/feed.xml
Andrea Raimondi=http://araimondi.blogspot.com/atom.xml
AtoZed Software=http://blogs.atozed.com/MainFeed.aspx
Boise Software Developers=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A//www.bsdg.org/atom.xml
BorCon2004=http://borcon2004.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Borland's TeamB=http://blogs.teamb.com/MainFeed.aspx
Brad's Blog=http://www.rightclick.com.au/delphi/rss.xml
Brian Lindahl=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/brian/Rss.asp
Brian Moelk=http://www.brainendeavor.com/delphi/tikiwiki_1.7/tiki-blogs_rss.php
Brian Moelk's Articles=http://www.brainendeavor.com/delphi/tikiwiki_1.7/tiki-articles_rss.php
Bryce K Nielsen=http://blogs.slcdug.org/bnielsen/Rss.aspx
Carlo Kok=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/ck/Rss.aspx
Charlie's Blog=http://www.codefez.com/Portals/0/charlie_Blog_ID_32.xml
Chris Bensen=http://homepages.borland.com/cbensen/blog/atom.xml
Chris Woodruff=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http://feeds.feedburner.com/DelphiInThenetWorld
ComponentScience=http://www.componentscience.net/csblog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
Corbin Dunn=http://blogs.borland.com/corbindunn/Rss.aspx
Craig Murphy=http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/wp-rss2.php
Dan Miser=http://distribucon.com/blog/Rss.aspx
Danny Thorpe=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A//homepages.borland.com/dthorpe/blog/delphi/atom.xml
David Clegg=http://dcleggsblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
David Hervieux=http://dhervieux.blogspot.com/atom.xml
David Intersimone=http://blogs.borland.com/davidi/Rss.aspx
David Orriss Jr=http://mywebpages.comcast.net/daorriss/atom.xml
Delphi 3000=http://www.delphi3000.com/RSS/RecentArticles.aspx
DevExpress=http://www.devexpress.com/RSS/News/news20.xml
Dr. Bob Examines=http://www.drbob42.com/rss.xml
Falafel Blog=http://www.falafelsoft.com/flogs/MainFeed.aspx
Falafel Software=http://www.falafelsoft.com/Flogs/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
Fikele=http://fikele.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Fikret=http://fhasovic.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Fortress of Solitude=http://chuacw.hn.org/chuacw/Rss.aspx
Gloria Ho=http://gloriaho.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Hallvard Vassbotn=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http://hallvards.blogspot.com/atom.xml
HowToDoThings - ECO=http://www.howtodothings.com/rss.aspx?id=fa8b9738da584fe480a16c43916f6dbf
Jan Nordén=http://blogs.borland.com/jannorden/Rss.aspx
Jeremy North=http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A//jedqc.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Jesper hogstrom [ECO]=http://blogs.borland.com/jesperhogstrom/Rss.aspx
Joanna Carter=http://blogs.teamb.com/joannacarter/Rss.aspx
John Kaster=http://blogs.borland.com/johnk/Rss.aspx
Jon Jacobson=http://blogs.slcdug.org/jjacobson/Rss.aspx
Jonas Hogstrom=http://blogs.borland.com/jonashogstrom/Rss.aspx
Joseph J Mele=http://blogs.slcdug.org/jmele/Rss.aspx
Julian Bucknall=http://www.boyet.com/rss.xml
Julian's Ligatures=http://www.codefez.com/Portals/0/Julian_Blog_ID_29.xml
Kirk Dunlap=http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/kdunlap/Rss.aspx
Lino's Blog=http://www.codefez.com/Portals/0/Lino_Blog_ID_7.xml
Malcolm Groves=http://www.malcolmgroves.com/general.xml
Marc Hoffman - Chrome=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/category/14.aspx/rss
Marc Hoffman - Internet Pack=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/category/10.aspx/rss
Marc Hoffman - NET=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/category/9.aspx/rss
Marc Hoffman - RemObjects=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/mh/category/8.aspx/rss
Mark Edington=http://blogs.borland.com/medington/Rss.aspx
Matt Hamilton=http://blogs.slcdug.org/mabster/Rss.aspx
Michael Swindell=http://homepages.borland.com/mswindell/atom.xml
Mike Johnson=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/mikej/Rss.aspx
ModelMaker Tools=http://www.modelmakertools.com/mm_rss.xml
MozDev.Org=http://delphi.mozdev.org/mozilla_delphi_project.xml
Nick Hodges=http://www.lemanix.com/nick/Rss.aspx
NickFez=http://www.codefez.com/Portals/0/Nick_Blog_ID_17.xml
Nico Schoemaker=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/nico/Rss.aspx
Peter Morris=http://blogs.slcdug.org/petermorris/Rss.aspx
Phil Gilmore=http://blogs.slcdug.org/pgilmore/Rss.aspx
Reinhold Erlacher=http://research.remobjects.com/blogs/reinhold/Rss.aspx
RemObjects=http://www.remobjects.com/rss
Robert Love=http://peakxml.com/Rss.aspx
Ronald Hordjik=http://blogs.slcdug.org/rhordijk/Rss.aspx
Rudy Velthuis=http://blogs.teamb.com/rudyvelthuis/Rss.aspx
Ryan's BLog Drop=http://www.run-time-systems.com/blog/atom.xml
SADev_co_za=http://www.sadev.co.za/rss?feed=blog
Steve Trefethen=http://blogs.borland.com/stevet/Rss.aspx
Steven Camilleri=http://blogs.slcdug.org/scamilleri/Rss.aspx
Tee Chart=http://teechart.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Tom's Blog=http://tomjb.com/blog/atom.xml
TOndrej=http://tondrej.blogspot.com/atom.xml
T-Rex's Blog=http://www.codefez.com/Portals/0/steve_Blog_ID_16.xml
Wayne Niddery=http://wniddery.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Work blog of p-petter=http://p-petter-work.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Xavier Pacheco's Blog=http://xavierpacheco.com/xlog/Rss.aspx
Yoria Aminov=http://www.yoraispage.com/rss.xml
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