Version 0.2 is now ready! Perfect for those folks who refuse to use a 0.1 version of anything. :-) Here’s a rundown of what’s changed:Improved RSS aggregator – removes numerous problems with certain RSS feeds. Tray icon now changes (lightning bolt) when news is being retrieved. Fixed insertion order of posts, so sorting within Outlook [...]
Archive for: January, 2003
Outlook News Aggregator Problems Resolved
Whew! Pretty sure we have this one nailed now. Many of you were getting a problem where messages would download, but only the title would be shown in Outlook – not the message body.To fix this, you need to install Office XP Service Pack 2, and then install the December 4, 2002 Outlook 2002 Update. [...]
Outlook News Aggregator
Good news! Version 0.1 of the Outlook News Aggregator is now available for download. It requires Outlook 2002 (aka Outlook XP). If you run into any problems, please let me know. Thanks for your interest!A big thanks to Joe Gregorio – the Outlook aggregator currently uses parts of the excellent Aggie as its RSS engine.UPDATE [...]
News Aggregator
Hmm… …possibly coming soon to a weblog near you. Anyone interested in something like this?
Referrer Logs again
In an effort to deter unscrupulous hackers :-), I have modified the referrer log code to indicate which links either a) could not be followed, or b) could be followed but did not appear to link to the post in question. At some point in the future I may remove the unverifiable links completely. On [...]
Improved Referrer Logs
I have reworked the individual page referrer logs to show the title of the referring page where possible, rather than the URL. Here’s a good example. This page lookup is done asynchronously behind the scenes; so in most cases, the referring page title won’t show up on the initial view, but it will typically be [...]
Pingback for Radio
Simon Fell has built a Pingback client for Radio…very cool! I can attest to the fact that it works. :-) This is great! The more pingback or trackback enabled clients and servers we have, the better for all of us.
TrackBack test post
Sorry for the noise…this is a trackback test for Justin. UPDATE: trackbacks have been disabled for this post. Sorry!
More on Caching
Justin Rudd did some research on a caching product called Coherence. Interesting…I wasn’t aware of any such product. The part of his post that got me thinking was when he was talking about two different types of caches – “Replicated” and “Distributed” (I actually find the term “distributed” for the second type to be somewhat [...]