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May 2003 - Posts

Friday, May 30, 2003 5:29 AM

Hmm weblogs.asp.net

I figured something was up when I was all caught up an hour ago and then a subsequent NewsGator poll pulled back 198 new posts.ScottW confirms I'm not just in need of sleep, but he really doesn't say what this means, is dotnetweblogs now under Microsoft's
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Friday, May 30, 2003 5:03 AM

Not a Bad Day's Haul

Damn, Steve-o. Chip a brother a couple nickels to rub together.
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Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:12 PM

IE Died at v6 SP1, Netscape Died Today

Ron Green asked Scoble. Scoble presumably knows but can't really say, which is understandable given his assimilation. DonXML thinks it's as dead as COM. I don't agree with the point of comparison (COM, like the rest of us, is definitely going to die--it's
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Saturday, May 24, 2003 3:34 PM

HttpBrowserCapabilities

I haven't had to work with this directly that much, most of what I've done recently has been explicitly for uplevel browsers. Such a luxury. I was helping a friend with some templating code for a redesign of his site last night and two things leapt out
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Saturday, May 24, 2003 3:08 PM

Concurrency and Other Data Topics from Frans

Frans is the LLBLGen, one of the first (and imo, better) data layer generators out there. He's also been posting some pretty interesting reads on a variety of things, many of them, surprisingly enough, relating to data layers and their attendant architecture.I
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:33 PM

NewsGator 1.2 Released!

Update: Yeah. That didn't go real well. The post itself was fine, but the html sent up the pipe... in a word, ooof. I'm fussy, as a preface. And I should also front-load the fact that Greg emailed me within like 38 seconds of my original post. So, not
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:09 PM

System.UriBuilder: It's the Little Things

I was debugging some wierd behavior in my trackback ping routines earlier. Specifically, I was checking for an existing trackback entry on a target page for a given post. Issue a GET to the trackback url with __mode=rss appended to the querystring, seemed
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:23 PM

Trackback citizenship, testing

This should trackback to Brad a first time, prior to editing.It should not trackback a second time after editing.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 2:51 AM

Incremental RSS Feeds

One of the things that never really felt intuitive when I was plunking around with my own aggregator in the hazy days before NewsGator was the notion of RSS as a static feed of post items. While I understood how it worked and why this historically probably
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:33 AM

Arrays and Strings Undocumented

One last set of old links to some pretty good content. Wesner Moise wrote a couple of articles on The Code Project that I thought were pretty good. If you're into working further down into the CLR from some of the more common managed classes, it's good
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:30 AM

Data Container Comparisons

Just when I thought my gratuitous url worries were over, I forgot that I jotted down the following link to Jimmy Nilsson's articles on Data Containers... actually you can check the url itself, I don't want to double the length of this post. The articles
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:19 AM

Hotter than the Finest Incense, Speedier than a First-Run DVD Bootleg

Saturday, about 20 feet outside my building the hottest sidewalk retail action on John Street was a guy with about 100 decks of Defense Dept's Iraqi-Most-Wanted cards. I, however, passed on his fine wares and bought my usual Saturday Rolex, light on the
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:09 AM

Opera Standards Compliant

Well to read all the salvos reported by CNet and Opera's own site, I had generally been of the impression that Opera was seriously standards compliant. Possibly even to a greater tune than Mozilla. Then I started to kick it's tires more and more. Maybe
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:03 AM

I Can't Quit the IE Habit

I repaved my machine a week or so ago and was going to try and force myself to use Mozilla as my primary browser, once and for all. And then I fell right off the wagon again--this time with C/2-type velocity, I didn't even get to the install. Well I did,
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:33 AM

I Gave Myself a Zeldman-esque Makeover.

Additionally, I redid things with a purer CSS layout. HTML is not valid, I have some url encoding issues that will go away when I add more RESTful urls to my own internal references and a couple other goofs. Although I don't know if I'll get fully compliant
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:26 AM

One Step Forward, Half a Step Back

I reworked a bunch of my blog engine code earlier, basically moving it from a multiple blog to single virtual paradigm. Which is how I actually use it, so it made more sense and makes the client calls a lot more straightforward. In doing so, I had to
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Wednesday, May 07, 2003 6:43 AM

w.bloggar on WS2K3

Not sure if the issues were just with the wmp plug-in, but w.bloggar works fine for me on WS2K3. Just works.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2003 6:38 AM

RSS Encoding Changed

I was using full Unicode as the encoding for my feed, Radio might have an issue with that. Which is fine, there's really no need for me to be using Unicode or even UTF-8 really. Although I may bust out some Big5 on you just because I can. ('Can' in this
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Friday, May 02, 2003 7:24 AM

Borland C# Builder

Just a demo tour, interesting stuff anyway. Very Delphi/JBuilder in terms of interface. It'll be interesting to see if there's a real value proposition here or if it's just another alternative.
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Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:23 AM

Amen, FreeTextBox.NET

Saw this via Jesse Ezell, amen, rejoice, etc. Well, if it turns out to be decent, I haven't worked it over yet--FreeTextBox.NET.I've been looking of a rich html editor that was both good and free for a while. I'm all for paying for decent components when
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