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For those loyal readers of my blog, I'd like to announce a personal change of direction back to lighter, more open tools in the form of Linux, Mac OS, and Windows and Mono. Background It wasn't many years ago that I was enjoying burning my time by presenting .NET tech talks at Michigan State University.  While I was on this .NET journey, ...

The IFPI and ISPs like Comcast make me angry. http://torrentfreak.com/isps-should-block-bittorrent-and-tpb-071226/ ''There’s noway this can happen…Everybody knows there is so much people in p2p that someone will find a way to go around all this. '' - most_uniQue most_uniQue is right.  They can't stop anything.  Developers will always ...

It's simple.  Thanks Brian, for making such an easy-to-use syndication library in .NET.You can find Argotic at:  http://www.codeplex.com/Argotic Interesting points about this sample include: There's no easy way to get the MIME-type from a certain file extension. (that I know of).  I've used a static MIME library to get the MIME ...

Continued from Argotic on the Web: Part 1 (Solution Design)... Prerequisites: 1. Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (direct link) We'll use this to design the website that we'll be building for the creation of RSS feeds.  The project will reference the Argotic library and will be end up being hosted on a GoDaddy ...

Recently I got excited about a the video about Argotic (blog) on dnrTV. Argotic is a .NET library for RSS/ATOM/OPML creation and consumption.  The library is very easy to use, and can be used in a shared hosting environment (creation) and desktop environment(consumption). So I decided to make amends for all the tutorials I've ...

On dnrTV this week, Brian Kuhn shows off Argotic, his .NET RSS library. Argotic supports parsing of RSS feeds as well as creation of RSS feeds. I'm very impressed by how easy the library is to use and look forward to digging in. I'll be posting my tinkerings online here. A Windows Forms demo application is available here: ...

Do you  like Dot Net Rocks?  You might like dnrTV too - that's Dot Net Rocks TV.  Carl Franklin and Richard Campell produce an educational and entertaining talk show about .NET and Microsoft technologies. Description: Interested in creating highly scalable data-driven applications with no servers?  David wrote his ...

Great talk recommended by Brad Abrams. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design Long, but really great. Best advice: ''Code to the API before you're even done.''This prevents: Getting to the end and saying ''Hm, that doesn't feel right.'' Through experience, I've been learning that flexibility and valuable feedback are really ...

It kills me that the names for these processes are ''Code signing'' and ''Strong Name signing''. So this is the scenario.  I'd like for my assembly to be strong named (able to be loaded into the GAC, and used in strong-named apps) and I'd like it to be code signed (verifiably from me, and verifiably changed or not). Instead of writing ...