In a post about programming languages and XML, Don Box says: the real challenge is bringing hoards of developers who jumped on the OO train and believe that no other approach to design or implementation is reasonable. So true. I think this really started a few years ago (remember MTS?) when developers needed to start thinking [...]
Archive for: May, 2003
Nested Constructs in Regular Expressions
Today I was looking for a way to do nested expression matching with regular expressions, and pretty much came up empty. Then after a trip to the bookstore to pick up Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl, I finally found it. Interestingly, even now that I know what to search for :-), I can’t find a [...]
How should aggregators work?
(warning: blatant NewsGator plug ahead!) Ok, so I’m a little bit behind. :-) In a post back in April, Dave Winer says: RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order. He got some [...]
IBlogExtension and NewsGator
I’m pleased to announce that NewsGator 1.2 will include full support for IBlogExtension, and we will simultaneously release plug-ins for most major weblog publishing tools. Apparently the Blogger folks were first to the BlogThis name by about 4 years, so BlogThis is now IBlogExtension, and the interface definition has be revised based on earlier discussions [...]
Full text searching in aggregators
Addy Santo suggests that aggregators support full text searching: Is anyone out there willing to take on a real challenge? Then how about adding full text indexing into your aggregators!Yet another advantage for NewsGator…full-text searching through all of your saved news posts. Or even do complex searches involving certain fields, categories, date ranges, etc. And if [...]
Alex Zanardi
In September 2001, Alex Zanardi was involved in a horrific accident in a CART race at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany. He spun on the pit road re-entering the track with 13 laps remaining, and was hit by another car moving at nearly 200mph. He lost both of his legs in that accident. Today, CART returned [...]
What happened?
This is going to sound like a strange question, but here goes. Did NewsGator get some press today, somewhere, without a direct link? Like in print, maybe? Today was a huge traffic day on http://www.newsgator.com, but referrers aren’t telling the whole story. There were a very large number of google hits for the phrase “NewsGator” – we get a fair amount [...]
Posting from NewsGator
The current 1.2 beta release of NewsGator supports posting to your weblog, if you’re using Radio, blogger.com, or dotnetweblogs.com. Support for Movable Type and BlogX should be coming soon. Anyway, we need a few more folks on the beta who are interested in using NewsGator to post to their weblogs. If you’re interested, send me a note! It’s also very easy to write [...]
Posting interface (IBlogExtension?)
More on the interface extension that Luke, Simon, Matt, and I have been talking about.Let’s first think of this from purely a weblog-posting extension point of view, then we’ll come back to the other options.HasEditingGUI was designed for those aggregators that do have a built-in editor; the idea is, a user could edit their new [...]