Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• IE-killer (and maybe aggregators too?) features in the best-browser ever

  Posted on November 13, 2004

  In case you didn’t noticed (I realized today :o)), the best browser ever was released as v1.0. I thought it was going to be mainly bug fixing since the last version I installed (0.9.3), until I noticed a red icon at the bottom-right of the screen while I was reading a webblog post, with the following tooltip: “Add Live Bookmark for this page’s feed”. They add a bookmark that acts as a bookmark folder (with the title of the weblog by default), and update the entries in the folder directly from the RSS feed!!! Now THAT’s what I call to... [Read More]

• Kiss your favourite XML editor bye bye! (and welcome Domain Specific Languages designers!)

  Posted on November 8, 2004

  With the advent of XML, each and every piece of software is configurable with it, from Virtual PC to IIS to log4net to Shadowfax and all the Application Blocks released from PAG … you name it. If you think about it, however, it’s quite easy to realize that what those XML files are actually, is nothing more than a text-based representation of the concepts in the particular domain of the tool/app. So, log4net has the concepts of Appenders, Filters, Object Formatters, and so on, while Shadowfax (as most SOA frameworks) has the concepts of Pipeline, Handler, Service Action, and so... [Read More]

• ClariuS early adopter

  Posted on October 23, 2004

  ClariuS already has a big fan: [Read More]

• XML DevCon

  Posted on October 21, 2004

  XML DevCon [Read More]

• When a bug that became a really useful feature is fixed: !@#$!@$%@#^%#$%

  Posted on October 21, 2004

  When a bug that became a really useful feature is fixed: !@#$!@$%@#^%#$% [Read More]

• How to map a shared SkyDrive folder as a network drive in Windows

  Posted on October 21, 2004

  How to map a shared SkyDrive folder as a network drive in Windows [Read More]

• A sad day for component developers

  Posted on October 12, 2004

  A sad day for component developers [Read More]

• Breathing TDD: learning to distrust yourself

  Posted on October 7, 2004

  Breathing TDD: learning to distrust yourself [Read More]

• VPC 2004 back to normal speed with XP SP2

  Posted on October 4, 2004

  VPC 2004 back to normal speed with XP SP2 [Read More]

• Ugly XmlSerializer bug that generates invalid XML for required+fixed attributes.

  Posted on September 30, 2004

  One common way of signaling the version of a configuration file that the processor of that file understands, is having an attribute (i.e. SchemaVersion) with the attributes use=”required”fixed=”[required version]”. This way, all config files need to include such an attribute. When you evolve the schema, you can allow say “2.0” and most probably have XSLTs that automatically upgrades older versions, based on the version number you receive. [Read More]

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