“The Blogapps project provides what is essentially a complete RSS and Atom development kit, which includes feed parsers, generators, blog client libraries, an Atom protocol implementation, a set of ten useful blogapps, and an easy-to-install blog and wiki server. This article explains the project’s purpose and how to install and use the project’s products, the Blogapps Examples and Blogapps Server, to jump-start your RSS and Atom development.”
See Dave Johnson’s article: The Blogapps Project
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