Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Had a wonderfully interesting conversation with NEC's sole Blogger, Mr. TabletPC himself, Robert Scoble. Scobie's been to many geek parties in Silicon Valley lately, and he says he's partied out for a while. I think sometime soon we need to have a party for all tech bloggers named Robert. So far it would be me, Scobie, Rob Howard, and Rob Fahrni (please don't shoot me if I left anyone out). I would probably feel like the odd man out tho, since those guys are heavywaights in the industry and I'm just a lowly coder. It would still be cool. I wish I lived in SV so that I could go to all the cool geek parties (or maybe just stand outside and watch lol).

Tim of LooselyCoupled disappoints me. I'm disappointed for two reasons (I know the title of the post said 38, I'm getting to that), the first of which being the fact that he asked the name of the song I referenced in the title of this post, when I clearly said later in the same post: "(In case any of you didn't know, the title of this post [Hold on Loosely] was a reference to a song of the same name from the 80s)."

This is amazing. It's a far cry from what they have on display at Imagineering! in DisneyLand. My only question is: When does this stuff come out, and how many of my kidneys will I have to sell to get it?

Tim of Loosely Coupled mentions that he was thinking of an ASP.NET Server Control instead of Snarf. Tim, I think you missed the part where I said that Snarf was based on a server control that he created, and Brady and I are putting the finishing touches on it now. It's a templated control, and it allows you complete control over the output. It includes caching on a feed-by-feed basis, and of course you can manipulate it programmatically. I'm using it right now in a proof-of-concept project that will blow your mind . More on that later

[Loosely Coupled] "I wonder if [an ASP.NET News Aggregator] exists."

I now have my domain name (www.robertmclaws.com) redirecting to this blog. This is because my website sucks right now because I'm busy making other people's sites kick some major butt. In the meantime I will continue posting about the cool things I come across. If you're new to my site, welcome. Have a look around, I have links to pretty interesting things, and more are to come.

My friend and coworker Brady Gaster came up with the coolest RSS aggregator I've seen in a while (besides NewsGator of course). Snarf stands for Simple News Aggregator for RSS Feeds. Say you're on the go, and not on your computer, but you still want to check on your newsfeeds. Well, click the link on the tatochip.com home page, sign in, and your RSS feeds are right there in IE's search bar. It's all based on Brady's RSS server control, which will be available to the public soon. I would highly recommend it to everyone to give it a go and see what it can do. I know Brady will be adding several features to it over the days and weeks to come.

For those of you that are not yet aware: Rob Howard is freakin awesome. If I ever have a problem and can't figure something out, and I have no where else to turn, Rob always has the answer. Anyone that says that Microsoft is not envolved in the developer community can suck on a dead dog's nose. The b0rg rule!