CodeThinkedby Justin Etheredge

var sr = new StreamReader("Opml.xml");
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(new XmlTextReader(sr));
var result =
    new XElement("ul",
        from c in doc.Elements("opml").Elements("body").Elements("outline")
            select
                new XElement("li",
                    new XElement("a",
                        new XAttribute("href", c.Attribute("htmlUrl").Value),
                        c.Attribute("text").Value
                    ),
                    " ",
                    new XElement("a",
                        new XAttribute("href", c.Attribute("xmlUrl").Value),
                        "RSS"
                    )
                )
    );

using (var xtw = new XmlTextWriter(new StreamWriter("list.xml")))
{
    xtw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
    result.WriteTo(xtw);
}

7 comments

1. Luke Venediger

   October 8, 2008 at 2:47 am

   Hey Justin,

   Thanks for posting these links. I use google reader mobile so I try keep my list short and relevant, but there are some on your list that I’ll definitely add.

   Another useful list would be what books you’ve read and are busy reading.

   I notice you like functional programming a lot, and wondered if you’ve ever given Python a try?
2. Erik

   October 8, 2008 at 4:56 am

   Hi Justin,

   How much time DO you spend going through these? ;) Seriously, great list of feeds, I’ll be adding a number of them to my own list, no doubt.

   Interesting to see that CodeThinked is on your list too. I thought I was the only one subscribed to my own blog :p

   Keep it up!

   Cheers,
3. Justin Etheredge

   October 8, 2008 at 8:31 am

   @Luke Yeah, my list has gotten a bit out of control. And yes, I am interested in a lot of the functional programming stuff, but how does that tie into Python? I wouldn’t say that Python is any more functional than Ruby or C# 3.0, unless I am missing something.

   @Erik It doesn’t take me very long actually, maybe 10 to 20 minutes per day. I just open up google reader, go to the "new item" feed and use the "j" and "k" keys to go up and down. I don’t read every single item in my feed, but I try to skim most. With that many blogs I only see around 30 or 40 new posts per day.

   And yep, I follow my own blog :-) It has actually helped me in the past catching errors when I broke something in my feed. Ha ha.
4. Justin Tisdale

   October 8, 2008 at 5:39 pm

   That, my friend, is a very long list of blogs. I’ll have to take a look at some of those.

   On an unrelated topic, how did you get Visual Studio to alternate line colors like that? Or is that a different IDE?
5. Justin Etheredge

   October 8, 2008 at 7:52 pm

   @Justin That isn’t Visual Studio, that is a Javascript based syntax highlighter. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
6. zymen

   October 16, 2008 at 4:17 am

   Hi,

   I have only one question: How fast do you ‘follow’ them?:-) I’ve subscribed about 10 of them, and I have no time to read it.

   Do you use some extra-complicated-sophisticated random algoritm to choose posts?
7. zymen

   October 16, 2008 at 4:45 am

   Ekhm.. right now I saw @Erik’s post.

   Shame on me :-)