RSS Feed For Controller's Corner

Recently I’ve noticed that I have been missing Michael Oxner’s ATC-related postings. Michael used to post blog entries on his personal blog and I was an avid reader. But late last year he was asked to write for Aviation.ca and as a result moved his blog over there. At his new location there was no RSS feed so I stopped reading his articles as I really had no desire to surf to Aviation.ca every day to check for update. This morning however, I decided enough is enough and that I would write a simple perl script to fetch Michael’s articles from the site and construct an RSS 2.0 feed out of it.

Two hours later, I’m happy to report that I have successfully produced a working feed. Unfortunately for me, when I surfed over to the site to check the spelling of Michael’s last name, I noticed that the now have an RSS feed specifically for Michael’s articles. So, note to self, when about to undertake a new programming project, first search for alternatives that are already complete.

On a side note, I don’t think it’s fair to refer to Michael’s articles as a blog anymore. Once you associate yourself with a larger ‘information-based entity’, whether it’s a newspaper, e-zine, website, etc, you move into the journalist/writer space. I tend to think of Michael as a staff writer for Aviation.ca rather than a blogger. But whatever.

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1. By surfer 1 day later:

   
   
   Why wouldn't you want to surf to Aviation.ca? it's one of the better Canadian sites out there.