Re: rss again and syncing data

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 10:38 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I have a new job (really cool) in sport (ok I am not a sport geek) but
> the discussion about rss feeds made me think...
> 
> I have to keep stats between games synced up from a central serve
> efficiently.  I was thinking that the RSS feed would be the perfect tool
> for this.  Keep the game stats in an XML file that gets updated and then
> update the RSS feed with the new timestamp.
> 
> Is this the general idea?
> 
> Ken
> 

On the face of it, this is the perfect use for RSS. A one to many feed
of the same information.

RSS is pretty simple to implement as well, either as a script that
generates dynamically or some backend generator that generates an actual
xml file to be pulled down.
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