Technical development of the blog continued also today. I have left the remaining layout improvements (in which, as it appears now, all fundamental issues have been solved satisfactorily) and spent several hours building a script which will extract the headings of the newest blog posts so that appropriate links could be displayed automatically on the site's front page.

To do this, I intend to make use of Blogger's automatically generated RSS (Atom) feed. This morning I have located a neat ASP class which can process an RSS feed and extract the relevant information. I found this one here. As is often the case, it took quite a lot of cleaning up, debugging and rewriting to get the script to work. It was still much quicker than writing a similar thing from scratch.

I'm almost there!

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