Saturday, October 18, 2003
Some photos from BorCon 2002
Here's some photos I took last year in Anaheim, California at BorCon 2002. This is while at Disney's California Adventure for the Tuesday evening event. You can see me in the foreground sitting next to Chris Anderson with Eddie Churchill in the front. I presume he's begging for more information about .NET ;-). There's also a photo of Danny Thorpe with ChrisAn deep in discussion.
Maybe this will trigger some of ChrisAn's visual memory...
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BorCon adjustments
Time is certainly a limited commodity. With BorCon now only 14 days away... I've not been able to spend any appreciable time preparing for my talks. So with that, I've been able to convince Eddie Churchill, take over one of my talks. So I'm now down to two talks... I think this will work out. The good thing about this is that when I notified Christine Ellis about the change, we just happen to beat the printing of the conference catalogs by only a day, so the catalogs will be correct.
Thursday, October 16, 2003
RSS Changes
Some other folks have mentioned that they are having issues with my RSS feed... so I did some changes based on their suggestions. This whole RSS/RDF standards thing is a mess right now. That's the good thing about standards... there are so many to choose from.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Impromptu QA
Thanks to John Kaster and Roy Nelson for providing some impromptu QA on my RSS feed hack. Apparently I was missing a " " (space) between the "1.0" and ?> in the <?xml version="1.0" ?> header. Should be fixed now. I don't see why this space should be significant, but there are some new aggregators and XML validators that complain. I know that NewsGator seems to be OK without the space. It's on points like this that I find the W3C specs to be lacking in clarity.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
RSS Feed
OK, I figured out how to get an RSS feed up and going... You can now subscribe to my RSS feed here. It's not perfect, since it is somewhat of a hack. I simply added an HTML comment to my template that contains the RSS XML skeleton. Then, using their own template tags, Blogger will fill in this XML skeleton when it is published to the server. Finally, on the server, which is a Linux box, I wrote a Perl script (yea, yea, I should have used Kylix...) to scrape the HTML file and extract the rss xml data and write it to rss.xml. This script is setup as a cron process which runs every five minutes. If it detects that the html file date is newer than the rss.xml file, it will regenerate that file.
As far as not using Kylix... well I didn't have a Linux box up and running with Kylix installed at the time and this was sort-of a late-night, "let's see if this works" project...
Monday, October 13, 2003
It's Official: No Longhorn Until 2006
My take on this is that this certainly gives developers more time to get up to speed on the new platform... not all the doom-and-gloom portrayed by this article.
So, all you Delphi devlopers out there, you definately don't want to miss out on BorCon this year. Since it is after Microsoft's PDC, we are going to have several folks from MS giving talks about some of their future stuff (yes, it will definately be .NET/CLR related)... hopefully we'll get a synopsis of what will be presented at PDC.
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