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Language support

The FeedDigest site, and interface, are in English, and will be in English only for at least a couple of months. This hasn’t stopped the backend being prepared for users who have different languages as their mother tongue though. Our %DAYLONG%, %DAYSHORT%, %MONTHLONG%, and %MONTHSHORT% tags which return the month and day names of the […]

Conditional searches and global digests

Let’s quickly look at two concepts new to Feed Digest that RSS Digest doesn’t have. Searches. You can now specify a “search” on a digest. The search works somewhat like Google and means your digest will only contain articles from your specified feed(s) which match your search string. So if your digest reads from 50 […]

Digestum and digesta

Ruby on Rails is the application framework that’s used for Feed Digest’s control panel and user interface. I’ve used it in many other projects, and it’s the best solution for developing Web applications these days. Sadly, however, “Digest” is a reserved word in Ruby, so I’ve had to work around it. Therefore, in the code, […]

Welcome to the Feed Digest Blog

The first post in a new blog always feels weird to me. You know that lots of people will end up scrolling back to it and read it for years to come, yet you don’t have a significant amount to say. So here it is, the first post on this blog. RSS Digest has become […]