Over at SNE Bloggers I've been busy learning and implementing. Last night I started getting a handle on OPML so I could export our member list in a format that people could import into their favorite aggregator. I had some difficulty determining which portions of the spec different aggregators support. Today I tried to figure out the bookmark format. I ran into similar problems, but I'm relatively sure I found something that works there. I'm still not sure if my OPML file willl import.
After OPML, I got back to working on an aggregator. Using Mark Pilgrim's feedparser I got a python script up and running that grabbed RSS feeds and stored them in a mysql database. After thrity two rounds with my host I finally figured out how to rewrite my scripts so as to work with old versions of python. This after I wrote the whole thing in php first and then figured out that PHPs file handling routines were slow and kept timing out. I'm glad it's done, though.
I've always found that the satisfaction of learning something new and then getting it to work is worth all the trouble. I look forward to more development on the aggregator in the future. I won't look forward to the mess that is RSS, though.