Carl Franklin

cool. torrent of episode 1 no-workee

http://perseus.franklins.net/dnrtv/dnrtv_0000.zip.torrent

ahh, the link to ep1 is wrong. should be 0001.zip.torrent

Yes.. it's a bug. We're fixing it.

For a simpler experience, Nimiq works very well.

http://www.nimiq.nl/

Ipodder also supports torrents.

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

We'll have to ask them, but I think the last time I checked with the Nimiq people, they said that Nimiq only downloads. It doesn't share. I'll ask again.

So Nimiq is a leecher only? Bummer. Okay, thanks for letting me know -- won't be using that anymore.

On second thought, Nimiq is better than nothing. At least it disperses the traffic to BT instead of focusing it on your HTTP servers.

There's got to be a simpler BT client (up and down) out there. Azureus is obviously powerful, but it's got too many options for the average user. BT is already more complicated than direct download, we've got to do all we can to grease the skids.

Hello! EventArgs.Empty??? How did I miss that?

Just goes to show that you can get something out of these shows even if you don't do any asp.net.

(mabster goes off and does a global search for "new EventArgs()" in his code...)

Loving this, Carl. Would love to see some WinForms stuff - particularly database-oriented.

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The app is really simple and easy to use, has all the features and does torrents. Plus, it's .NET based - don't have to install the JRE.

You gotta be kidding me. Flash? Flash 8 no less. That's downright evil, Carl.

Carl,

Just a few comments on the show:

1. First, great work. I always enjoy the tips and tricks that I pick up when I watch other people code.

2. Although Miguel did show off the new (to VB) event support in the property grid, he didn't show that you can double-click the text area beside an event to automatically create a new event handler in the code-behind (you don't have to type in the name of the event handler.)

3. The .NET event naming guidelines state to "Use a gerund (the "ing" form of a verb) to create an event name that expresses the concept of pre-event, and a past-tense verb to represent post-event." Therefore the events "BeforeEmailSend" and "AfterEmailSend" should be "EmailSending" and "EmailSent". I know, I know... picky, but it would be nice if all .NET programmers named stuff consistently - especially in their public properties/events.

Again, great work!

You may also want to try uTorrent.

http://www.utorrent.com

It's fairly small and fast and I believe it's written written on the .net framework(not 100% certain on this). The latest version includes rss support. It's what I'm using to seed the shows.

On part 2 Miguel mentioned he stole icons from Carl and Gary's vb page. You said it's no longer around.

But aha!! All the memories you tried to run from :)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010925135724/http://www.cgvb.com/

You can put multiple files in a single torrent without zipping things. This makes it easier for users who would like to keep seeding but are low on disk space (keeping both the compressed file and the uncompressed videos is a waste of space). (File => Share => Folder in Azureus).

I'd appreciate if future torrents were done this way. Thanks in advance.

Carl,

Just watched the show. It was *awesome*. Great subject, great guest, great explanation. I also enjoyed all of your observations: on most times, it was like you were reading my mind and explaining all possible points of misunderstanding. This is almost as good as a real-life classroom. Thanks!

By the ay, I'd love to see Miguel again on the show, but I know the other guests will be just as prepared and infomrative. Can't wait 'til next week.

What a great comment, Mauricio! Thank you!

Fantastic implementation of the TV show you always wanted to produce, Carl! Great job by you and Miguel.

Yeah, I also question the all-flash site, but once I get beyond that, the videos are worth it. And the torrent downloads were lightning fast!

Carl,

This is really awesome. Thanks for it. Miguel is a great teacher with a great personality. A true dev. I watched both episodes and will be grabbing #3 soon. Thanks again.

jw