Creating a project dashboard with RSS and rawdog    Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 11:43 PM EDT Contributed by: glosser This tutorial provides help for those working in projects who need to keep team members up to date with information. One of the challenges of managing a development project is keeping all parties abreast of key events or milestones. It's not just the team members -- marketing personnel need to plan events, business teams need to do forecasting, even the operations people need to know whether to lay in extra caffeinated beverages. Here's how you can use the rawdog RSS aggregator to build a project dashboard that will keep your project's people aware of its status. A project dashboard is an aggregation of the key ongoing information about a project. Anyone monitoring the dashboard will see the current status of the project. Rawdog is a Python-based open source program written by Adam Sampson, based on Mark Pilgrim's Feed Parser. It supports virtually all flavors of site syndication: RSS 1 and 2, RDF, and Atom. Unlike other aggregators, many of which are full-blown applications with user interfaces not unlike an email client, rawdog reduces feed aggregation to its essentials. A simple configuration file tells rawdog what feeds to read and how often to check them. Then, when rawdog is run (typically from a cron job) it assembles those feeds into a single well-formatted HTML page that can be read in any browser. Full tutorial from NewsForge   [ Views: 1377 ]

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