What Blogware Are You Rolling?

Last week I was kinda bored so I do what I always do when I'm bored -I practice coding. Yeah, that sounds really lame, I know. A lot of times I'll think of an issue or a curiosity and I'll see if I can come up with a solution in ColdFusion. Essentially what this does is allow me to broaden my skill set to think outside the box for solving problems. Anyhow, enough of my rant. I was curious as to the breakdown of blogware utilization for those being aggregated by MXNA (or should I say AXNA?). So I created a page to call the ColdFusion OPML feed, and loop over that feed, making an cfhttp call to each of the pages (horribly inefficient and dumb, but it wasn't intended to be a permanant living page so I did it anyways) and store the remote file contents in an array. I then looped over that array and tried to parse out the blogware from the filecontents. The results of my findings are below. I don't think my methods were very accurate, but it was a fun exercise. Essentially I practiced consuming a remote feed, working with complex objects and working with regular expressions (something I need a ton of work on).

Here are my findings:

• AV_Blog - 3
• BlogFusion - 2
• Blogger - 11
• Mango - 1
• Movable Type - 10
• Typepad - 3
• WordPress - 14
• BlogCFC - 33
• Unable To Determine/Other - 146

Obviously my method wasn't foolproof, but I am still curious as to the breakdown of blogware being used. So if you're interested too, please click the link below and take a simple one question survey. I'll post the results in November (if anyone actually takes the survey that is).

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