CakePHP RSS component and SMS component@the Bakery

A few days ago two interesting articles were posted at the Bakery. One is about an SMS component and another about an RSS component for use in CakePHP.

Doug Bromley wrote an article about integrating the Clickatell SMS service in your application with his component. Quite cool. You can enhance your app with sending SMS messages. We have used the SMS service of ClubMessage in one of our applications. Receiving messages is also possible with ClubMessage (must be too @ Clickatell, but I never tried this). Anyway, the article is a good start if you want to turbocharge your application with SMS possibilities. Imagine writing your own Twitter service. Send messages to your users cellphones, and have them respond also by SMS. Or, write your own SMS quiz or anything you can imagine. Anyway, this is cool and handy. If you want to know how we connected Cake to ClubMessage, don't hesitate to contact us.

The other article is written by Jimmy. He writes about a component to easily use lastRSS to read RSS feeds. It was written for 1.1 but should work in 1.2. Shouldn't this be standard functionality in 1.2? Or is it and am I a very bad reader? If I am, let me know, but not too hard, I have feelings too...