Benjamin Zamora found my RSS feed to the most popular posts on TabletPCPost. The power of blogs! (By the way, check out Benjamin’s ArtRage paintings. Wow.)
Lora’s pointed out to me a couple times this morning that the feed is not validating correctly. Yep. I’ve got to fix this right away–hopefully tonight after work.
I’ve been using the feed since last night with SharpReader and it’s fascinating to watch the reshuffling of the top downloads over time. I don’t know why. Just fun.
One thing I’ve noticed though is that I’d like each new feed request to completely replace the current feed. Currently it appends each new item to the existing list. The plus side is that as a sideeffect you see at the top of the viewer only the products that have changed order. The downside is that the list gets plenty confusing since the same product can eventually be listed with different rankings. I don’t know if it’s possilbe to address this on the server side. I guess it would have to be a switch in the reader–something like “Replace All on Each Download.” Do other readers provide this feature?
After I get the “Most Popular” feed cleaned up I’ll help Lora get a “New Releases” and “Top Picks” feeds too. Anyone have any other feed requests?
I just find it slightly disappointing that one of my apps can’t be posted cause of *ahem* my naivity that no one would notice it when I was naming it 😉 To find out which one check out my programs page on my website.
I’d fix it, but the lonestar alpha reference is getting in the way of compiling it.. hahahahha.. Virtual PC time.. 😉