Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog

RSS feeds from any webpage

ashben — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:53:00 GMT

In the past few months I’ve received great support and some wonderful feedback from Feedity users. I finally got some spare time last weekend to strike-off a list of tasks I had scribbled for the next Feedity upgrade. I’m glad to present Feedity v1.1.

Feedity (formerly FeedTier) is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format like RSS or Atom. Feedity performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing syndication.

FeedTier - On-the-fly Syndication!

ashben — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:01:00 GMT

FeedTier (beta) is an automated web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing syndication.

More details over at the projects section (rss) of my new blog.

Performance Comparison of Java/.NET

ashben — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:56:00 GMT

Performance Comparison of Java/.NET Runtimes - Technical Consultant Kazuyuki Shudo has published a set of benchmarks comparing various Java Virtual Machine and .NET runtimes. Slashdot also has an on-going discussion of the results.

Lucene is now SearchBlackBox

ashben — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:07:00 GMT

I was looking at Lucene .NET for a full-text search engine implementation but I was surprised to find out that the Lucene.NET application library is not open source anymore. It has been relaunched as a commercial product called SearchBlackBox. Lucene .NET is the core search technology behind the popular Lookout plugin for Outlook (later bought by Microsoft). Too bad that such a cool technology is not open source anymore. Atleast the developers could have left the last stable release of Lucene .NET under a public license. I'm not sure if there's any other open source search library for .NET in the market.

SearchBlackBox for .NET, is the full-text search engine library for .NET compatible with Lucene.Net and Jakarta Lucene 1.4-final. SearchBlackBox allows you to add full-text searching capabilities to all kind of applications from web site search to enterprise search applications. SearchBlackBox is compatible with .NET 1.x, Mono and Jakarta Lucene.

By the way, just to remind you guys that I've moved my blog to www.nilkanth.com. I may still cross-post once in a while. Have a nice weekend!

TechEd India

ashben — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:45:00 GMT

I've just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group regarding the Tech Ed India 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay Rs. 4000 (=USD 85) if you participate in a group of 6 or more. You will also receive MS Press Books worth Rs. 1000 if you register on or before August 7th, 2004. TechEd India will be held in 4 Indian cities, and its scheduled in New Delhi for August 25th-27th 2004.

MyXaml

ashben — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:21:00 GMT

Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml (dev blog), which offers declarative markup (XUL-like) capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables

ashben — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:04:00 GMT

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables. A 62% file size reduction anticipated! "If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes per year." Go for it MS!

SQL Jobs Auto-backup

ashben — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:58:00 GMT

A few days back, my friend Pankaj was enquiring about a particular case where he needed to automate the backup (in the form of SQL scripts) of all SQL Jobs (schedules) on a SQL Server (2000). DTS doesn’t support automatic scripting of SQL Jobs from what I could tell. I remembered doing something similar a few months back on a particular project but I didn’t have the T-SQL snippet for it, so I looked up a bit and found ... (complete article on my other blog).

By the way, I've moved my blog to nilkanth.com (rss). My daily posts and linklog will be maintained on the new blog but I will cross-post certain interesting articles and bits here as well.

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

ashben — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:37:00 GMT

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET - A comparison of building XML-based web services is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.

MSN Newsbot

ashben — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:48:00 GMT

Is the MSN Newsbot a Google News ripoff or an “innovative” competitor? I still like the simplicity and effectiveness of Google News. It does what it says - dynamically serve up-to-date news. Probably the only thing missing with Google News is a RSS/Atom feed.