Google API for AJAX feeds

Posted by mde on April 29, 2007

ALI uses the the Google AJAX Feed API.

Pros:

  • access RSS/Atom feeds on the client-side
  • feed caching on google server

Cons:

  • a maximum of 8 topics per feed can be displayed
  • for each feed displayed an own DOM manipulation has to be implemented

Screenshot #1: ALI User Profile

Posted by jr on April 27, 2007

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This Preview shows the ALI User Profile.

ALI Weblog online!

Posted by jr on April 27, 2007

This Weblog is intended to document the project work of ALI the Alumni System of the Department of Business Informatics at University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg.

ALI is the reference project of the open-source alumni networking platform “Alumni on Rails“, developed by students. Alumni on Rails is non-commercial and available under the GPL license.

Alumni on Rails is developed using the Ruby on Rails framework.