Some good feedback. Simon suggests deriving from the existing IBlogThis – sounds fine to me, especially since there seem to be a fair amount of IBlogThis implementations out there already.Matt confirms the need for this extra functionality…glad to know I’m not the only one who thinks we need this. :-)Douglas asks why we don’t just [...]
Archive for: April, 2003
Weblog posting interface
Simon Fell has defined an IBlogThis interface, which an aggregator plug-in can implement. In this model, the aggregator passes an existing post to the plug-in. The plug-in will then display a GUI for the user to enter the post, and the plug-in will then post to the weblog.This is a good start; however, I’ve recently [...]
NewsGator reviews
A couple of great NewsGator reviews, in case you’re on the fence. :-)MCP MagazineCaffeine Infused
NewsGator and Outlook 2003
It’s not often I’m blown away by how well something works, but this time I am.With Outlook 2003 and NewsGator installed, create a Search Folder to display unread messages in your news folder. By default, they will be grouped by folder – perfect! This really takes the place of what the NewsPage does for OL2003 [...]
NewsGator 1.2 beta program
NewsGator 1.2 is nearing release; we will again have a short, private beta program. We’re looking for about 20 participants to help shake out this release. If you’re interested, send me a note! In your note, please include what version of Windows you’re running, what version of Outlook, and what version of the .NET Framework [...]
Front and rear wheel drive
Dare points to a Slate story about front and rear wheel drive, titled “Why Front-Wheel Drive Sucks.” There are a couple of points in the story about oversteer and understeer that I want to address, as they’re a bit misleading, in my opinion.First, he makes sweeping generalizations about front or rear drive cars and their [...]
RSS for NNTP Newsgroups
Ok…as mentioned in the comments for my Event Log Monitoring with RSS post, I have been thinking a bit about generating a RSS feed for NNTP newsgroups. This would be a one-way feed, but I think many people might find use for something like this.If you’d like to try the (very-beta) NNTP RSS feed, let me [...]
RSS and corporate communications
Here’s an interesting article I found by accident – PR Tactics – Using RSS for corporate communications by Phil Gomes.…since not all announcements are wire-worthy — despite what your “Assistant Marketing Director, Luxembourg Region,” might try to tell you — company events of slightly less significance might be posted to the company’s RSS feed as the sole [...]
Event Log Monitoring with RSS
I’ve written some sample code to generate a RSS feed from the Windows Event Logs. This is very handy for monitoring servers – perhaps a poor man’s SNMP monitor. :-) Here’s an screen shot showing it in NewsGator (click for larger version): You can specify in the URL how many entries to return, and which [...]
My first and only political post
I have not posted anything about the war on my weblog before, and I don’t intend to make it a habit. But I’m going to just this one time. I had lunch with my sister today, and she told me of a good friend of hers whose son is a marine in Iraq. This young [...]