Aggregating RSS Feeds with Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, and CFML

_articles.cfm

<!--- URL to RSS feed --->
<cfparam name="arguments.articlesRss" type="url">
<!--- URL to Delicious page --->
<cfparam name="arguments.articlesUrl" type="url">
<!--- Number of items to display from feed --->
<cfparam name="arguments.numToDisplay" type="numeric" default="10">
 
<!--- Note: we are breaking the convention of data access in the view here so that we can cache this partial --->
<cfset articles = articles(arguments.articlesRss)>
 
<cfoutput>
 
<div id="community-articles">
  <h3>
    #Replace(articles.title, "ColdFusion on Wheels ", "")#
    <a href="#arguments.articlesRss#" class="image">#imageTag(source="feed-icon-14x14.png", alt="Articles Feed")#</a>
  </h3>
  <p>#HtmlEditFormat(articles.description)#</p>
  <dl>
    <cfloop from="1" to="#arguments.numToDisplay#" index="i">
      <dt>
        <a href="#articles.item[i].link#">#articles.item[i].title#</a>
          <span class="date">(discovered&nbsp;#Replace(timeAgoInWords(articles.item[i].pubDate), " ", "&nbsp;", "all")#&nbsp;ago)</span>
	</a>
      </dt>
      <dd>#articles.item[i].description.value#</dd>
    </cfloop>
  </dl>
  <h4>Read More Articles</h4>
  <ul class="calls-to-action">
    <li class="delicious"><a href="#arguments.articlesUrl#">All Articles on Delicious</a></li>
    <li class="feed"><a href="#arguments.articlesRss#" title="Articles Feed"><abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> Feed</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>
 
</cfoutput>

cffeed.cfm

<cffeed name="articles" source="#arguments.rssUrl#">

helpers.cfm

<cffunction name="articles" hint="Fetches latest article data from specified RSS feed.">
  <cfargument name="rssUrl" type="string" hint="URL of RSS feed to check.">
 
  <cfset var loc = {}>
 
  <!--- Design mode will not cache, so let's store data in session to keep FeedBurner happy --->
  <cfif get("environment") is "design">
    <cfif not StructKeyExists(session, "articles")>
      <cffeed name="session.articles" source="#arguments.rssUrl#">
    </cfif>
    <cfset loc.articles = session.articles>
    <!--- This is cached in production mode --->
  <cfelse>
    <cffeed name="loc.articles" source="#arguments.rssUrl#">
  </cfif>
 
  <cfreturn loc.articles>
</cffunction>

index.cfm

#includePartial(
  partial="articles",
  articlesRss=articlesRss,
  articlesUrl=articlesUrl,
  numToDisplay=5,
  cache=5
)#