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.











