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June 2003 - Posts

Monday, June 30, 2003 10:24 PM

NewsGator case study: Triple Point Technology, Inc.

Greg seems to be a leading source of cool ideas for using RSS in creative ways so I wasn't too surprised to see a new NewsGator case study on how one company are using feeds to enhance distributed notifications. Cool stuff, and this type of application
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Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:36 PM

Missing the Point and Making It Anyway

Let's recap some facts. First RSS 2.0 is locked. It's exactly what it is right now into perpetuity. Therefore, the RSS spec is, for all practical purposes, frozen at version 2.0.1. We anticipate possible 2.0.2 or 2.0.3 versions, etc. only for the
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:35 PM

Why Scoble's Life Will Be Better

When I posted the prior post about why I think Echo matters, it was mainly a few remaining contrails from an email I sent to Robert Scoble. Scoble had a quick post about Echo yesterday, and I was geniunely surprised he didn't instantly see why Echo was
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 8:42 AM

Why Echo Matters

Dare wrote a nice breakdown of why Echo matters. A number of folks have been asking why it's not just an attempt to create another syndication format, why users will benefit. A unified, highly-specific and well-documented standard in and of itself is
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:31 PM

Blogert Test

Testing a post via ScottW's Blogert to my putatively MT-compatible backend. Edited after post.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:40 AM

UI Process AB

I just started tinkering it with the UI Process block this this evening, it's basically an official flavor of MVC from Microsoft which is a great development. Getting the samples working would be a lot easier if the installer and configs weren't hardwired
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:54 PM

IntelliJ + C#?

If I were a Syndirella user, yole's announcement that he's walking away from the application would no doubt be disappointing. But I'm not, and what I found myself wondering about was what is he doing at IntelliJ with C# and RSS. I guess the safer guess
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:35 PM

VS.NET /nosplash

I don't know if this is purely perceptual, but it doesn't feel like it. I think I just channeled Yogi Berra, but try it yourself.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:41 PM

Ouch! Permissions Spankdown.

I won't go too far into the wheres or whys but the machine I am graciously hosted off was in or around a domain and dcpromo last weekend. The following kb article tells part of the story.Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 332097. It's incomplete however
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Friday, June 20, 2003 6:32 PM

Zeldman on ASP.NET WebControls: Half Right

Zeldman stating what everyone who uses ASP.NET in a halfway responsible fashion already knows: ASP.NET and the basic WebControls make it pretty close to impossible to generate valid markup. I'm a big Zeldman fan, but I will differ ever so slightly with
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Friday, June 20, 2003 5:57 AM

Eric Gunnerson Has a Feed

Eric GunnersonEric's was the .NET first book I could get my hands on way back when, and it still stands up as a nice gentile introduction to C#. He's also into some way crazy robotic home automation stuff if I recall correctly, way beyond just a simple
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:04 PM

Random: Finding Saddam

Colt Seavers. Stuntman/Bounty Hunter. Do we really have our best man on the job in Iraq?
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:05 AM

New MSDN Search Preview

There's a new preview of enhanced MSDN search functionality linked from the home page. I'll be interested to see if the enhancements make internal search more useful than google for finding things buried in the depths of MSDN.Maybe I'm too prone to whipping
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Monday, June 16, 2003 8:16 PM

Random: All I Wanted Was Some Tree Code

If you go looking for a C# red-black tree structure on Google you'll find what you're looking for--and on the 15th page of results you'll also find my new favorite usenet thread subject line.
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Monday, June 16, 2003 6:36 AM

Who would trust an anti-virus product from Microsoft?

BBC: Technology analyst Bill Thompson wonders who would trust an anti-virus product from Microsoft? Via The Scobleizer Weblog. Who would trust it? How about the millions of home users out there who don't realize they should have an antivirus tool? The
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Monday, June 16, 2003 3:46 AM

Closing in on Bill Russell

Steve Kerr: 5 rings. Now and forever, a rich man's Jud Buechler. Tangential: Jason Gardner may not get drafted, Luke Walton may slip into the second round. Idiotic, considering the track record.
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Monday, June 16, 2003 12:38 AM

pointless ?

Hmm. Well my vote would be that wrapping it in RSS is useless but then I stop myself and remember that anything pointing out that the loathsome Mets are in last place can't really be entirely useless. Is it just me, or is this an entirely pointless use
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Monday, June 16, 2003 12:24 AM

HtmlClean plug-in available

Well, let's give it a rip. By popular demand, we now have a HtmlClean plug-in available which will clean and convert the HTML output from NewsGator into valid xhtml before posting. It works in conjunction with any other posting plug-in. This plug-in
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Monday, June 16, 2003 12:11 AM

Charlies Angels 2: Full Throttle

Utterly random but irrefutable: The G in McG stands for genius. He is the Stephen J. Cannell for our time. Nets in 8.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:09 PM

FeedDemon

A few people have been talking about FeedDemon's impending arrival. I'm not really in the market for a standalone aggregator since I love how I aggregate already.Just the same, anything Nick Bradbury develops is worth checking out in my book. The guy
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:25 PM

Firebird user.js Tweaks

My aggregated collection of user.js tweaks, aggregated from texturizer and others. // Stop reusing active windows: user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);// Disable tab bar autohide feature: user_pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", false);//
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:15 AM

Best of 2003: Mozilla 1.3

I don't want to get crazy and claim that PCWorld is still halfway relevant, I'm not flashing back 10 years or anything. But they did select Mozilla as the best Web Browser 2003 so they do deserve some credit. I don't know if anyone still reads PCWorld
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Monday, June 09, 2003 10:22 PM

Back at the Reinstall Mines

You install and reinstall enough of the same applications over and over again and you're sure to have some peeves. As I rebuild my main work machine today, these peeves once again naturally rise to surface consciousness. The application I hate reinstalling
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Friday, June 06, 2003 1:16 AM

Having a Good One, Ain'tcha

My second job out of school started a little rough. This was during my former life as a financial analyst, fun stuff. I had started at a new firm and was naturally eager to hit the ground at full speed. My first assignment entailed a kickoff meeting in
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Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:40 AM

Selling RSS

In what I think is his inimitable way, Mark Nottingham replied to Tim Bray's question "What's the RSS Soundbite?" Mark's RSS tutorial is extremely lucid and sufficiently detailed; in short, I read it and see everything someone reasonably technically inclined
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Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:54 AM

MSHTML Wrapper, Very Sweet

If you've ever wanted a serious headstart on wrapping your own WYSIWYG html editor for a WinForms app, here you go. I played with it briefly and it should take away most if not all the headache of making your own wrapper. Very nice, Nikhil.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:16 AM

Yukon Beta Invites Out -- July+ for B1

I don't know how authoritative this is, a friend sent me the url. Seems totally plausible.What's totally implausible is that I didn't get an invite. Well, that's an exaggeration, neither totally nor implausible is really true. But I am a diligent little
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Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:16 AM

CodeSmart: Reloaded

Lord knows I want CodeSmart to be a better product. It's got such potential, but I've installed and uninstalled it 3 times now. What I reall would like to see is more tools like this, code sorting, quick accessors, region by selection, etc. There's a
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Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:09 AM

CDATA Are People Too

XmlSerialization doesn't seem to let you encode an element as CDATA no matter how silly your desires are. Which is fine, I can appreciate that this hardly ever(tm) comes up. Still the same, serializing regex expressions as CDATA is vastly more readable
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Monday, June 02, 2003 10:47 PM

Reminded that ISerializable != XmlSerializable

So I thought I'd replace an explicit IConfigurationSectionHandler by making the relevant configuration object nice and neatly serializable via xml. I've done this a couple times previously, it just took some twiddling with the various serialization attributes,
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Monday, June 02, 2003 7:32 PM

Get Ashcroft on DDOS Enforcement

Sigh. I love Speakeasy. I've had DSL from them for years and it's been amazingly reliable. I live 3 blocks east of the WTC, they had me back online in a matter of weeks, way before I had phone service (and my DSL was the my last connectivity link to fail
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Monday, June 02, 2003 1:53 AM

Reloaded: I've Enjoyed BSODs More

Sam's post mirrors my disappointment with Reloaded. I saw it this afternoon and to say I was profoundly disappointed is an understatement. Which is really saying something since I was expecting a fair amount of disappointment based upon early returns.
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