Why I hate Radio- January 9, 2003 Why, oh why, did Radio decide that an HTML page was the way to implement a client application I have lost 2 large entries so far with Radio... once I commited the "sin" of clicking an icon on my desktop... IE navigated to that page, my entry was gone... just now, I accidentally clicked the back button on my mouse, boom! another entry gone. Given that Radio is a "smart client" application (being that it runs a complete WEB SERVER) on my machine, why couldn't they actually write a real...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/66 Safari on the blog- January 8, 2003 As Dave Winer points out, this is exactly what the web is about... (not to be too biased, i'll also point out that this ASP.NET site is pretty cool also...) in both cases you have one to one communication between the community developers and the product team developers. Of course, one of the best things about the Safari link is that Dave Hyatt is actually posting patches in almost real time! That is damn cool!http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/64 Another test- January 8, 2003 uhm... this time actually using the wireless portion of the wireless hub... kinda cheating when you still have a cable plugged in...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/63 New wireless test- January 8, 2003 Since the Linksys wouldn't let me blob, I borrowed a friend's Microsoft wireless hub... if this post appears, then all is working happily!http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/62 Logging in .NET- January 7, 2003 Question from my brother Brent: Is there a way to determine what file and method called my function I have a logging object that I would like to be able to automatically add the function, file, and line number of the caller. Also, I'd like to automatically generate debug output when a function begins and exits there are a couple options here... If you want to profile, there are several profilers (Rational, Numega, etc.) and they are are managed aware. Given that you want this...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/59 Parsing things you don't understand- January 7, 2003 Jon's fascination with libraries has given him a deep understanding of the ISBN format. This reminds me of all the people that "whip" together a XML parser and forget to support all the complex corners of it. Everything is much more complicated than it first seems once you have understood it completely. Favorite bug of the day: Someone was parsing version numbers and thought the format was always 4 sets of 1-4 digits separated by periods. (1.23.456.5678)... of course, the actual format for...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/58 Macworld- January 7, 2003 Wow... a lot of traffic about macworld... Keynote, Safari, and a 17" Powerbook. oh my! The most interesting news (to me, at least) - Safari being an open source web browser based on KHTML... awesome to see Apple take on something like this.http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/57 Windows Media Player- January 7, 2003 ok... this may be against blog-ettiquete... Windows Media 9 released today... coolest player feature - the ability to have a minized player appear in your taskbar... I appologize in advance it the mention of this has offended, angered, or otherwise pissed you off... now, get over it! :) And if Don likes it, it can't be all bad.http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/56 Real World Applications- January 7, 2003 Drew: I'm glad you liked the sample. I was supposed to do one entry a month, but I've fallen way - way! - behind...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/54 GameBoy Advanced Advanced- January 7, 2003 Did you ever want to pimp out your gameboyhttp://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/53 |