I found out today that there is a little-known feature that lets you filter the DZone RSS feed. For example, if you want to filter the feed to only receive top posts for the week, you simply add a "range" parameter to the feed:
http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/rss.xml?range=top-week
Additionally, you can also sort the feed by the number of clicks instead of votes:
http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/rss.xml?range=top-week&order=clickCount
I'm not sure what all the possible values are for these filters or whether more filters exist. Just thought I'd throw it out there for anyone else who enjoys the DZone RSS feed but doesn't have the time to keep up with the volume of posts it generates.
Good find. I’m currently using this Yahoo! Pipe http://tinyurl.com/5kktzc to filter posts by how many up/down votes they have. Works pretty good so far.
@Arthur
Good idea. I haven’t tried Yahoo! Pipes yet, but I have heard good things about it. Thanks for the tip!
This is a good thing to know. Dzone has just too many articles, and it’s time consuming to search for a good one. Thanks.