Kevin Hoyt

For those of you who are CF’ers and are looking to get more structured access to the Halo RSS feed data, I’ve made available the CF source I used to do so during some of my development trials. There’s two files - feed.cfc, which is the CFC that handles the workload, and feed.cfm, which is an example of how to use the CFC. So why didn’t I use this in my project? Read on…

Note: This code was developed to test out an idea and was not designed with performance in mind. It comes as-is, with no warranty (smile).
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Well, I was going to finish up my application and send it Mike’s way today, but since he’s extended the contest two more weeks, I’m just going to post a screenshot of what I’m calling Halo Reader 1.0. This is the application as I would have posted it today, but with more time (and a long holiday weekend to boot) I’m going to keep coding towards Halo Reader 2.0. I had to ditch a ton of features to fit development into one week, so I’m looking forward to the extended time to add more features.

FYI, I’m not eligible for any of the prizes, but just couldn’t resist such a fun project.
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