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SharpReader and Notification
Quoth Robert :
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Follow-up: BlogThis and SharpReader 0.9.0.1
OK. I think I solved the problem I was seeing with BlogThis and SharpReader, thanks to some advice from Scott. The value for the "Key" key must be the value that you get from the URL for your own key. That is, you must:
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BlogThis and SharpReader 0.9.0.1
Scott wrote, of Luke writing:
SharpReader 0.9.0.1 has been released. This version has the following changes:
- Added a "File | Open" menu-item.
- Added a "File | Subscribe" menu-item.
- Mark updated items in italics.
- Added a label before the address text box; ALT-D selects address text box.
- Fixed KeepAlive bug that sometimes kept connections open too long.
- Fixed bug in proxy authentication.
- Better retry-mechanism for failed webrequests.
- Fixed infinite post-threading.
- Fixed unnecessary ListView refresh issue.
- Added debug-statements at app-startup to find Win98/WinME problems. If you're running Win98 or WinME, please try to run SharpReader and send me the sharpreader.log file after it fails. Hopefully this will give me some more information that may help resolve this bug.
- Open links in external browser now always goes to the system default browser.
- implement Simon Fell's BlogThis plugin interface. If you save your plugin into a "plugins" subdirectory, SharpReader will find the plugin and make it available in the listview popup menu (shortcut ^B). Simon's last drop of Relaxer uses this plugin mechanism to post to RESTLog. Make sure you do NOT put IBlogThis itself in the plugins directory as this causes .NET to load this interface twice. Since SharpReader will use one copy of IBlogThis and your plugin another, SharpReader will not be able to find the plugin (because it will implement the wrong copy of IBlogThis)
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Important info on Request Validation
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A differentiation solution (run as non-Admin cont'd)
OK. I've solved Drew's question of how to differentiate an instance of Internet Explorer running as Admin and viewing the filesystem from other Windows Explorer instances (in order to avoid mistakenly running programs as Admin, etc.).
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More on running Explorer when running as non-Admin
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Tip for Explorer when running as non-Admin
Got the following comment on my recent blog on running as admin:
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Tip for ISO images from MSDN
Finally got the VS.NET 2003 bits downloaded...even though I complain about the speed (or lack thereof), thank goodness for MSDN Universal. While the lack of an ISO image for VS.NET was a little puzzling, it's definitely faster installing from the hard drive, so I'm not going to complain too much about it.
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Running as non-Admin sucks? Not for me, it doesn't...
Samer writes:
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Herding cats...the future of dotnetweblogs.com
ScottW wrote:
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For THIS I have DSL?
Sam writes:
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Airplane .NET
Mike Sax writes:
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Update on running as Admin...
In addition to my informal poll about running as Admin here on my blog, I've been running a similar poll on the home page of http://www.graymad.com. So far, the results are not encouraging. A full 70% of those who have responded to the poll say that they run as Admin "Always". 20% run as admin "Rarely", and only 10% "never" run as Admin. Surely we, as a community, can do better than this.
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Copy links in SharpReader
Samer writes:
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Security poll...
Time for another informal security poll...
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Blog editing options
After my post on editing blogs from within SharpReader by navigating to one's blog home page, I figured it might be worth trying other methods.
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Edit blogs from SharpReader? I'm doing it right now!
For all those asking for the ability to edit your blog from within SharpReader, the ability is already there. Just subscribe to your own RSS feed, and when you're ready to add a new blog (or edit an old one) select your blog in the Subscription pane, then select an entry, and finally click the hyperlink that contains the title of your blog (not the title of an item, but the blog itself). You'll be taken to the home page for your blog, where you can click the Admin link and do all the normal stuff.
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More reason to love the starter kits
I just realized that I can, with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, easily create a new site for a given domain while the current site is still running at the same domain name, thanks to the magic of host headers, and the fact that the CSK allows communities to be configured at the subdomain level. So while the current production site is running at www.mysitename.com (and just mysitename.com), the new site can be set up at new.mysitename.com, allowing development and testing without requiring a lot of extra work, and without disabling the current site. When I'm ready to put the new site into production, all it will take is changing the target directory of the site in IIS, and changing the subdomain in the ISPAdmin section of the CSK from 'new' to '*'.
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Certifications and misunderstanding
OK, so perhaps I misunderstood Keith somewhat. He was quick to point out that:
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The role of Certifications
Keith writes, of writing questions for MS Certification exams:
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Aggregator integration
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SharpReader and Categories...
Tim asks:
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Aggregators
OK, so perhaps I'm a little slow on the uptake. I've only been solidly in the blogging business for a couple of months now (although I maintained a pseudo-blog on the old version of my newly-refurbished company site), so I really didn't get what the big deal about RSS aggregators was. Folks like Julia, ScottW, and even ScottGu, were making such a fuss about aggregators, and I just didn't get it.
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On Blogtiquette...
Scott blogged:
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Dedication? How about supply and demand?
Keith Pleas blogged about the plight of UAL pilots, given the trouble that the industry is in:
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Chris Sells, Oregon, and Open Source
Thanks to Samer Ibrahim for the heads-up on Chris' testimony on the Open Source Software for Oregon Act. One observation I have is that I suspect Chris' testimony is likely to ruffle some feathers in the Open Source camp, at least among those who are sensitive to slights on their programming skills. Among other things, Chris says:
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Community Starter Kit Modifications
While playing with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, I noticed that while it provided 95% of what I needed out-of-the-box (so to speak), there have been a couple of things that I wanted to tweak. Since these seemed like things that might be useful to other folks using the CSK, I posted these modifications to the ASP.NET Forums forum dedicated to the CSK.
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Community Starter Kit FAQ
Earlier this week, I blogged about how cool I think the ASP.NET Starter Kits, and in particular, the Community Starter Kit, are, and how easy they make getting a site together quickly and painlessly. But as with any other software product, there are bound to be times when either it doesn't work as expected, or you don't quite understand what you need to do.
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Starter Kits Rule!
If you're looking to get a site up in a hurry, with a minimum of fuss, then you owe it to yourself to check out the ASP.NET Starter Kits, downloadable from where else but http://www.asp.net/. These kits, which are currently in beta, are offered in the following flavors:
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C#...developer-tested, ISO-approved
Microsoft announced today, on the MSDN .NET development site, that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the C# and CLI specfications.