Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within 
[Twitter] simonbrown: wondering whether Adobe's commercial approach to Flex Builder will limit adoption of Flex ... which will be a shame, because I quite like it
[Coding the Architecture] As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...
Include RSS feeds on your Pebble blog
One of the new features that will be making an appearance in Pebble 2.1 is a generic feed reader component that you can use to pull feeds into your sidebar. You can use it like this.
<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/fragments/sidebar/feed.jsp"> <jsp:param name="name" value="del.icio.us"/> <jsp:param name="url" value="http://del.icio.us/rss/simongbrown"/> <jsp:param name="maxEntries" value="3"/> <jsp:param name="showBody" value="true"/> <jsp:param name="truncateBody" value="true"/> </jsp:include>
This component uses ROME under the covers and thanks to its ability to deal with any type of RSS/RDF/Atom feed, you can pretty much pull in anything you want, providing it exposes a feed of some description. Couple this with some flexibility in the way that the entries within that feed are displayed and you have quite a useful little component. If you're reading this on my blog, scroll down a bit and you'll see that I'm using it for displaying my del.icio.us bookmarks, my Twitters and a handful of sites that are currently linking here (courtesy of a Technorati search). Other uses include aggregating another blog/news site and stuff you're selling on eBay into your sidebar. The possibilities are endless.
Simple but very effective.
