[TAG] RSS feed problem

[Bob McConnell]

Ahh, but it did work at one time. There was a date displayed for several
months. I believe it disappeared with the December issue.

I tried refreshing the feed, but nothing downloaded. I will try a few
more times this afternoon and let you know what I see.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Okopnik [mailto:ben at linuxgazette.net] 
To: TAG <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:58 PM
To: tag at lists.linuxgazette.net
Cc: Bob McConnell
Subject: Re: [TAG] RSS feed problem

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:11:54PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> The alternative is that either Newsfox or your feed changed the way
the
> date was handled back in the September-November time frame. There were
> several updates to both Firefox and Newsfox, but since you only update
> once a month and I took some vacation during that period, I don't know
> if there was a traceable link between them.

Ah, yes... the wonderful situation where everything except the one
constant [1] has changed. Repeatedly. I just love those (that tends to
be the point where my clients call me in to put out the fire. :)

In any case, I've just tweaked the calling script and the relevant
template to contain <lastBuildDate> and <pubDate> stanzas, regenerated
the feeds, and uploaded the whole shebang to the LG site. Please fire up
your RSS reader and let me know if that took care of it. 


[1] "It doesn't work."

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