BitWorkingTheories on software development.Getting TiVo- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I can't recommend DVRs highly enough, so if you don't already have one, consider purchasing one in the next year. You'll thank me later.The Shifted Librarian I agree 100%. Our TiVo has changed TV for the whole family, with our 6 and 8 year old being completely TiVo literate, and our 2 year old is always confident that he can watch Blue's Clues (with Joe, not Steve) any time he wants. But I have also had a real difficult time explaining to people exactly why it is so great, you just gotta see it.http://bitworking.org/2002/06/19.html#a209 Music I'll pay for- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Heard an interview with They Might Be Giants on NPR and followed it up with a visit to the NPR site. TMBG has released NO! a CD for kids. There are 3 songs in RealAudio format available off the NPR site, my favorite is "Bed, Bed, Bed". It is a song about going to bed, but is probably the last thing you should actually play for children before sending them to bed. Reilly, Austin and I listened to it before they went to bed tonight. We were singing, marching and stomping all around the house....http://bitworking.org/2002/06/19.html#a210 Heisenberg and Google- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can't measure a thing without changing it. What google does is measure the web. This topic came up obliquely at the RTP bloggers lunch yesterday. The topic turned to the fact that Google loves bloggers, ranks us highly and that eventually they would tune their ranking parameters to put us bloggers back down further on the list where we belong. Google rewards good web behaviour: changing, linking and being linked to. It rewards those sites...http://bitworking.org/2002/06/19.html#a211 One more .NET weakness.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I was surprised to find that the FCL is completely bereft of support for client side FTP functionality. Bummer. I would have wanted an FTP class that did FTP, Passive FTP and SFTP. Given the very complete support for HTTP this omission was surprising.http://bitworking.org/2002/06/19.html#a212 Servletless- (Found July 2, 2008 ) David Johnson is having a helluva time with CQHost and is trying to find an alternative hosting service that privides Java Servlets. Until then I'll keep both his Radio and Roller based weblogs news feeds in Aggie.http://bitworking.org/2002/06/24.html#a222 System.Xml.XmlDocument and DTD's (Soon to be a mini-series)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Andy McMullen pointed out to me via e-mail that I can write an XmlResolver all my own and fix the default XmlResolver's problems with relative directory names. There's even an MSDN article on creating custom resolvers. Way cool. My first experiment will be a little resolver that just passes all the work to the default resolver but lets me see exactly where .Net falls down on job when processing the XHTML 1.1 DTD.http://bitworking.org/2002/06/24.html#a221 System.Xml.XmlDocument and DTD's (Continued)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A reader dropped me a note to point out that my solution to XmlDocument loading up DTDs was sub-optimal, noting that if the DTD defines any entities and they are used in the document then the document will fail to load. Now this leaves me in a bit of trouble. I want to load and manipulate an XHTML 1.1 document using System.Xml.XmlDocument, but can't because .Net chokes on the 1.1 DTD. I suppose I could download, fix, merge and pre-feed all the XHTML 1.1 DTD's before I load my document which I..http://bitworking.org/2002/06/24.html#a220 CVS Updates for Aggie- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I have just checked a fairly large change to Aggie into CVS. This change breaks out all the configuration information and puts it into a dialog box. This includes support for a proxy server (needs testing) and the ability to choose a 'skin'. The skin is for the look of the generated HTML page used for viewing the news, the application itself is currently not skinnable. Once Aggie's support for international feeds is fixed then this will become RC4.http://bitworking.org/2002/06/24.html#a219 Congrats!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Congrats to Dave Johnson on the birth of his third son Leo Michael Johnson!http://bitworking.org/2002/06/22.html#a218 .NET Memory Profiler- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This .NET Memory Profiler looks like a must-have tool. Thanks, Sam!http://bitworking.org/2002/06/22.html#a217 |