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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002I've conversed with the author of bloggerCOM and the associated FrontPage add-in. Everything is kosher, so I'll start working on getting them both up-to-date immediately. Should have results to show in a day or three.
I was at a my local Borders bookstore this afternoon, browsing for German cookbooks and a VB.NET reference. I was ready to shell out $40 for O'Reilly's "Programming Visual Base .NET", when I flipped across something that caused me to place it back on the shelf: one of those security tags. You know the type, it was the kind that is found on pretty much every CD and DVD these days.
This particular tag was near the middle of a book. Dead-center on the page. Covering some bits of example code. Firmly attached with glue. I grabbed another purchase-worthy book, and upon finding the same thing, I checked several more at random. Each had been tagged.
I have no interest in paying full-retail for books that come pre-damaged. Borders not only lost a $40 sale today, but I will never consider a purchase there again. I'm usually in a rush at the bookstore, I have better things to do than checking to see if some moron glued a security tag over a critical section.
Patrick Logan is dissing Dot Net's languages here and here. Peter Drayton is giving him a run for his money here and here.
As a VB developer, Dot Net and VB.NET technologies will empower me to create rich Windows applications as never before. Finally, VB is no longer a second-class citizen. Great stuff. The nay-sayers can shove Java where the Sun doesn't shine.
After an hour or so of digging into the Office XP Developer documentation earlier this afternoon, I think that it's safe to say that FrontPage cannot be easily embedded.
However, the person who made bloggerCOM has produced a FrontPage add-in that makes Blogger posts. It's interface is a very simple toolbar. Type away in FrontPage, click on the "Post to Blogger" button, and it forwards the relevant HTML bits to your Blogger web site.
Of course, there's always a catch: it doesn't actually work. I've hacked together some pieces to make it work with Blogger once again, and started adding functionality to support other systems (like Radio) that implement Blogger's API. If everything is kosher with the original author, I'll finish the job and bring it up to release quality.
