Updated Leander:

* added metware channel (yes, I need to put this in a config file)
* use linked list (hopefully solving fixing showing new feed items)

src/com/github/egonw/rednael/Feed.java

@@ -16,20 +16,18 @@
 package com.github.egonw.rednael;
 
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.List;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
 
 public class Feed {
 
     private String label;
     private URL url;
-    private List<String> queue;
+    private LinkedList<String> queue;
 
     public Feed(String label, URL url) {
         this.label = label;
         this.url = url;
-        queue = new ArrayList<String>();
+        queue = new LinkedList<String>();
     }
 
     public String getLabel() {
@@ -45,11 +43,22 @@ public boolean contains(String link) {
     }
 
     public void add(String link) {
-        queue.add(link);
+        System.out.println("Added link: " + link);
+        queue.addFirst(link);
+        // feeds that are smaller than what they normally should be, e.g.
+        // because they just started, will mess up... assume feeds have 50
+        // items, then the when only 8 out of 10 are given (== partial feed)
+        // , will not mess up the same. Fails for partial feeds with more than
+        // 50 items as default, but that should be rare (tm)
+        if (queue.size() > 50)
+            queue.removeLast();
     }
 
-    public void reverse() {
-        Collections.reverse(queue);
+    public void addInitial(String link) {
+        System.out.println("Added initial link: " + link);
+        // the first time a feed is read, the first item must be at the top
+        // of the list, so next is added always as last
+        queue.addLast(link);
     }
 
 }

src/com/github/egonw/rednael/LeanderBot.java

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class LeanderBot extends PircBot {
     private FeedFetcher fetcher;
 
     public LeanderBot() throws NickAlreadyInUseException, IOException, IrcException {
-        this.setName("rednael");
+        this.setName("hadhadhadhadhadhadhadhadhad");
         this.setVerbose(true);
         this.connect("irc.freenode.net");
         this.channels = new ArrayList<Channel>();
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ public LeanderBot() throws NickAlreadyInUseException, IOException, IrcException
             "http://cdk.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cdk;a=rss;h=refs/heads/"
                 + branch
         ));
+        cdk.addFeed("CDK Twitter", new URL(
+            "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23cdk"
+        ));
         addChannel(cdk);
 
         Channel bioclipse = new Channel("#bioclipse");
@@ -75,6 +78,12 @@ public LeanderBot() throws NickAlreadyInUseException, IOException, IrcException
         ));
         addChannel(bioclipse);
 
+        Channel metware = new Channel("#metware");
+        metware.addFeed("Metware Twitter", new URL(
+            "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23metware"
+        ));
+        addChannel(metware);
+
         feedInfoCache = HashMapFeedInfoCache.getInstance();
         fetcher = new HttpURLFeedFetcher(feedInfoCache);
     }
@@ -94,11 +103,8 @@ private void boot() throws IllegalArgumentException, IOException, FeedException,
                 for (SyndEntry entry : entries) {
                     itemCount++;
                     String link = entry.getLink();
-                    chFeed.add(link);
+                    chFeed.addInitial(link);
                 }
-                // feeds have the latest entry first, but we want them at the last
-                // position
-                chFeed.reverse();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -108,6 +114,7 @@ private void update() {
             for (Feed chFeed : channel.getFeeds()) {
                 try {
                     SyndFeed feed = null;
+                    System.out.println("Feed url: " + chFeed.getURL());
                     feed = fetcher.retrieveFeed(chFeed.getURL());
                     List<SyndEntry> entries = feed.getEntries();
                     for (SyndEntry entry : entries) {