Monday, February 17, 2003

My BottomFeeder questions answered: Regarding platform portability, the same image runs on all platforms unchanged. Only a few things are done to enable additional features under Windows (use existing browser, etc) but this doesn't prevent image portability. The data files would normally be usable across platforms but the directory separators are stored in the .ini file - these are different in Windows for example. This may change in the future thanks to 3 feet of snow! Thanks for the answers! 11:59:30 PM

BottomFeeder question. If I have both the Windows and Linux clients in the same directory, will they use the same data files? And does this mean I can read news in Linux, boot into Windows and it will have marked the articles I have read while under Linux? Something to try tomorrow I guess. 1:10:53 AM

The users guide for BottomFeed is excellent. A great introduction to the product as well as to RSS Aggregators in general. 1:06:35 AM

From James Robertsons Blog: "Chris Double is looking for a Linux news aggregator. Well, all he needs to do is browse here." Thanks for that. I read your blog and BottomFeeder has always been on the list of things to look at. Now that I'm doing work on the Linux platform I'm definitely looking at it. That and Cincom Smalltalk. 1:02:47 AM

Look at all the platforms that BottomFeeder, an RSS Aggregator, supports. You'd be hard pressed to get that sort of portability with Java even. Cincom Smalltalk seems to be very portable. I'm assuming there is no platform specific code in there? 12:55:22 AM