Slashdot

The source code for the site is called "Slash". The Slashdot Like Automated Story-telling Homepage. We've set up a site, using Slash, devoted to the development and use of Slash. Check out Slashcode for all of your Slash needs. The latest patches, bugfixes, documentation, FAQs, and everything else will always be on Slashcode.

You can find a list of sites that use Slashcode on the Slashcode site list.

Importing of Slashdot Headlines

For those who don't know, you can get slashdot.rdf or slashdot.xml to receive a list of headlines for Slashdot. The document is fairly self explanatory, and the rules are simple: Do whatever you want, but don't access the file more than once every 30 minutes. The server is plenty bogged down without adding a hundred stock tickers refreshing themselves every 60 seconds. If your automated loading of slashdot becomes too much of a burden on our servers, you run the risk of having your IP banned, so play fair!

Programs that use the Ultramode
These programs are provided as-is. They aren't mine, so don't ask questions about them! Contact the authors of the programs instead...

1. Ian Kluft has written WebFetch, a collection of perl scripts used to put the headlines on the SVLUG's homepage.
2. sdweb-0.1 was written by FnordBoy, and it allows you to display headlines on your own web pages pretty easily (assuming you can run perl and finger).
3. Srijith.K has developed a Newsgrabber Perl module to grab and display news from over thirty sites, including Slashdot.
4. Bernhard van Staveren has written This Perl Script which snags headlines, and formats them for SSI inclusion. You can witness it in action Over Here
5. Steve Kinzler wrote daily email shell script to send you yesterdays headlines.
6. wxSlash is a nice little headline snarfer for desktop usage. It is by Caolan McNamara
7. If you're interested in a headline grabber Written in PHP then say thanks to Veigar Freyr for writing it.
8. SlashDotView is an XML viewer by Carmen
9. If none of the previous AvantGo channels light your fire, then check out Ed Gatzke's page for instructions for how to make a different one.
10. Sujal Shah has written a Slashdot headline viewer that generates WML. You can find it here.
11. Heath C. Ice wrote yet another headline grabber in PHP. You can grab it from his website.
12. If you're into Java and JavaServer Pages, you can find a Headline Reader at Sylistron's site.
13. Neil Fraser has written a nice sidebar for use in Mozilla in Netscape, as well as an Active Desktop Item for that other OS.

There are others, but I don't have URLs handy. If you know of 'em, send 'em in.