Juice

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:26:01 GMT

Google Talk Crashed

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:52:39 GMT

It's nice to know the engineers at Google are human.

Winner of the 2005 Google Code Jam

Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:12:27 GMT

PR: Google today announced Marek Cygan, a student at Warsaw University, as the grand prize winner of the 2005 Google Code Jam, Google's annual computer programming competition.

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/codejamwinners_2005.html

netfeeder

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:54:41 GMT

Summary: .NET Beta 2 Xml Feed Framework. Provides parsing of internet feeds such as RSS and Atom to be able to consume feeds in your .NET application.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netfeeder

Microsoft Issues IE Developer Toolbar

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:24:16 GMT

BetaNews: The toolbar works on Internet Explorer 6 and above on Windows XP and Vista operating systems. The toolbar will allow developers to perform such functions as validating CSS and HTML code, and previewing how pages appear in various screen resolutions. No release date was given for a final version. The toolbar beta can be downloaded from FileForum.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Internet_Explorer_Developer_Toolbar/1127145234/1

SharpDevelop 1.1

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:41:46 GMT

I'm developing Juice 2.0 in SharpDevelop 1.1, downloaded a few days ago. There's a lot of new features in SharpDevelop, but the IDE hasn't stabilized any. A compile last night threw the VM memory consumption into the gigabytes and spun the CPU out-of-control. Still, I'll continue working with it, mostly for the experience.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

Update: Shortly after I reported this, SharpDevelop ate one of my source files, completely corrupting it and costing me an hour of work. SD 1.1 is less stable than 1.0. Not a good sign.

Later: CVS to the rescue. I reconstructed the corrupted changes in a matter of a few minutes.

Later: This version of SharpDevelop is simply too unstable to work with. I can't get any work done.

Small Tweak

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:25:52 GMT

This is a test of my blogging software. I moved the primary data file from rss.xml to index.xml. Then I redirected rss.xml to FeedBurner, except when FeedBurner is the UserAgent, which I redirect to index.xml. If this shows up in the feed, then all is working.

Update: Kinda looked like FeedBurner was not reporting it's UserAgent as case insensitive FeedBurner with any prepended or appended characters. So instead of redirecting it to index.xml, I simply configured it to pull from there.

Introducing Sparkle

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:02:03 GMT

Channel9: Microsoft, today, at the PDC, announced Microsoft Expression, which is a suite of three applications to help you build Web sites and new kinds of Windows applications.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=115387

Randy: Looks like MS-Flash.

10k Downloads of Juice

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:56:15 GMT

Wow! Just checking the download stats and guess what. You got it, Juice has been downloaded more than 10 thousand times. Thanks! And you can expect a new version around the corner.

http://www.kbcafe.com/juice/download.html

C# Winning in the Blogosphere

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:51:56 GMT

C# has a ten fold lead in the blogosphere over Java.

Visual Studio 2005 RC Released!

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:27:28 GMT

Channel9: I' ve heard that Visual Studio 2005 RC was dropped on MSDN today and will also be handed out to all of the PDC ’05 attendees.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=113981

KBCBar

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:49:43 GMT

Just hacking around, I decided to create a blog search IE toolbar for my KBCafe blog search engine. I started with the KBBar sample, added a C and came up with KBCBar (KBCafe Toolbar). I was thinking a good name would also be Blogobar.

http://www.kbcafe.com/juice/KBCBar.msi

PDC Bloggers

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:55:25 GMT

We put up this site in hopes of connecting bloggers interested in Microsoft PDC and the technologies associated with the event.

http://pdcbloggers.net/

Here's the OPML roll of PDC Bloggers. And again on steroids.

KBCafe login

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:27:34 GMT

This weekend, I built an authentication module for the KBCafe domain. You can create an account, change your password, reset your password, deactivate your account and re-activate your account. You can't do anything with your account, but I plan on hooking this up to R|mail in the next few days. This will allow users to manage there subscriptions more actively. You'll always be able to subscribe with R|mail without creating an account.

http://www.kbcafe.com/login.aspx

Virtual Earth API Free

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:26:30 GMT

techcrunch: MSN Earth just announced that the APIs for its service are to be made open and also free, for commercial [read unlimited] use. These will not be fully supported until January 2006 but are available now if you inform MSN of your intention to use them.

http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=216

Scoble Interviews Bill Gates

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:17:21 GMT

Robert Scoble: Visit Bill in his office for a few minutes to talk about where he sees the future going. [cut] Oh, and don't miss the interview with Marc McDonald. He was Microsoft's first employee.

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=111598

Video

Scoble goes to Amazon and Learns All About Web Services

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:15:23 GMT

Robert Scoble: Amazon's Jeff Barr invited us over to see how developers are using Amazon's Web Services in a variety of ways. To make it even better, yesterday they announced a joint Microsoft/Amazon Web Services Developer Contest where you can win $5,000.

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=111249

Video

XForms Institute

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:17:16 GMT

About: This site features accurate, interactive lessons in the W3C's XForms Technology.

http://xformsinstitute.com/

Randy: A blog. Subscribed. Free online XForms Essentials eBook.

Sample: KBBAR Internet Explorer Toolband

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:54:42 GMT

KB: KBBAR is a sample Internet Explorer 5 toolband written in C++ with combined Active Template Library (ATL) and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) code.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q246234/

Randy: For some reason, I love this sample.

Exposing WinForms as ActiveX

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:50:17 GMT

Morgan Skinner: This article will describe how to utilise Windows Forms controls outside of .NET.

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/exposingdotnetcontrols.asp

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