If you’ve ended up here from Google, expecting to see some sort of blog post on ColdFusion, Flash or Flex, the site you were expecting to see is no longer around, so you’re best off heading back to Google and trying another link. Even better, stick around and have a browse, you never know, you might just like it.
After three years, and quite a few aggregated posts (over 100K at time of writing), I’ve decided finally to turn off feed-squirrel.com. I’m not going to go into any nitty gritty of why, when and how, but basically just list out a few reasons in case anyone is bothered:
1. Feed-Squirrel.com was largely a fully autonomous application, it sat there day in day out grabbing posts of various blogs out there, and turning them into a website. Essentially the blog authors built it, I just supplied it with electricity. Saying that though, one element wasn’t automated, which was adding new feeds and culling the old ones. As I don’t really have the time to do this (or the inclination), I thought it best to stop. There’s plenty of other aggregators out there (AXNA being one), or better yet, grab an RSS reader and make your own.
2. Whilst, in 2006, ColdFusion was one of my main interests development wise, I now have moved on and no longer hold the same interest in the content. I still use ColdFusion from time to time in a professional context when clients require it, but these days I much prefer to work with tools such as Ruby on Rails, jQuery and co.
3. Not having the site means not having to worry about uptime, backups, updates etc etc. This blog is all I want to worry about.
If anyone really wants a copy of the database I’ll happily let them grab a copy, but don’t ask for the code, it’s too embarrassing.
So long, and thanks for all the nuts.
Thanks for the service. It was fun being included in the blog posts. Good luck with all your future endeavors. Thanks again.
Kindest regards,
Mike
Neil, it was great while it lasted
Thanks for having me on your feed list.
Thanks for running for it as long as you did and having me on it as well.
Great resource. Sorry to see it go.
Too bad. Was a great resource that I used regularly.
I almost daily use this site. Though I am aware of the alternative methods you listed in item 1, I found your site the easiest to get to the most useful information that I needed.
Sorry that this will be gone and hope the best for you with your future goals.
Hey Neil, what a shame. I just recently found out about the feed.
Could you at least be so kind to post the feeds that were aggregated? Maybe someone else wants to keep up the great job you were doing..
Thanks! (and thanks for the few weeks of great service)
@Felix I don’t have an OPML to hand, but they do appear to be in the Google Cache:
cache:http://www.feed-squirrel.com/rss/opml.cfm?categoryID=1
cache:http://www.feed-squirrel.com/rss/opml.cfm?categoryID=2
cache:http://www.feed-squirrel.com/rss/opml.cfm?categoryID=3
You should be able to drop these into Google reader and have your own little feed-squirrel within minutes.
I’m a fan of the http://www.fullasagoog.com aggregator. It pulls in rss feeds from probably about 200 Adobe related blogs.
I find that since it generally holds postings until they are about 24 hours old as long as I bring it up daily I don’t miss any postings. I start at the bottom and open each blog article I want to read in a separate window. It is fast, easy, and all fits onto 1 page. GO fullasagoog.com!
awww.. sad!