13 Dec 2008

Joomla RSS newsreader

Written by Brian Teeman
rss newsreader and feeds

A few weeks ago I was chatting on skype with Fotis from joomlaworks.gr discussing the merits of various different RSS news readers or aggregators.

Despite trying several neither of us really were satisfied with what we had found.

There is also the new joomla community news aggregator at http://community.joomla.org/connect.html but that didnt cut it for us either as the number of included feeds are limited (and restricted) and you have to wade through several pages on a busy day.

What we both wanted was a single page that would show all the different feeds. Just the titles would be enough with a mouseover hover for the intro text and a click through if it looked really interesting.

Two days later and Fotis was back online to show me http://start.joomlaworks.gr/ which is now the home page on all my computers.

It's still early days but if you have any suggestions of new features or feeds to include please let us know.

joomlaworks rss news reader

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About Brian Teeman

  • As a co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc I've never been known to be lacking an opinion or being too afraid to express it.

    Despite what some people might think I'm a shy and modest man who doesnt like to blow his own trumpet or boast about achievements.

    But it seems that no blog exists without an "About" page so rather than talk about what an amazingly great guy I am and list all the things I've achieved (and failed at) in life from my Cycling Proficiency Test in 1976 to winning an award for the "UK Individual Contribution to Open / Source" in 2005 here are some links.

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