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RSS Feed for More C++ Idioms Wikibook

The open-content wikibook "More C++ Idioms" has grown quite a bit from it inception. Whenever I get time, I try to add more contents in the book. So I always wanted to track the changes happening in the book in a convenient manner. Today, I put together a RSS feed for the book, which publishes recent changes made to the book. Thanks to the excellent technical support provided by existing wikibookians (if that is a word). The feed is formatted like two column GUI-based diff utilities (kdiff3, Beyond-compare). Frankly, it is not as readable and enjoyable as regular blog entries but at least it will help interested readers to know what new content is being added to the book and how the book making progress towards completion.

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