The RSS Profile is a really helpful document that helps developers use best practices and avoid typical pitfalls when handling or producing RSS feeds.
That said, why isn’t the RSS Advisory Board - the very people who created the profile - following the profile recommendations in their own feeds?
The Feed Validator now produces warnings according to [...]

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When listening to the radio last week, I heard somebody use the phrase “constructive pessimist.” This label captures the essence of what I think makes a great software developer. It is the kind of developer I want to be and especially have on my team.
As I thought this over, a model of sorts formed in [...]

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Andy Brudtkuhl laments a common problem one encounters as a feed aggregator: It isn’t always simple to eliminate duplicates when comparing RSS items. This is even true when you’re comparing two items that are actually the same thing, but one has been republished.
He has discovered that when you are trying to compare the [...]

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