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Sunday, August 04, 2002Great myRadio Feature: Sticky checkboxes in the News Aggregator. If you've set the Radio pref to check the checkboxes by default, when you uncheck an item in myRadio and press the Delete button, the checkbox for that item will remain unchecked forever.
It's the little things...
.NET Compact Framework Resource Site
The .NET CF Resource site has been substantially updated and we now have the discussion group online. If you have a questions about the .NET Compact Framework, information that you would like to share or you just want to see what other people are doing with the .NET Compact Framework, this is the list for you.
IDSS has a DG for .NET CF source samples, and microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework has been a great source of information for me.
XML support under the CF has been driving me nuts for most of today. My first problem was that XMLNode.AppendChild was throwing an ArgumentException. I spent hours re-arranging code, building tests, and bashing my head against the wall... only to discover that my problem was in the documentation. AppendChild won't take child object that was created with a different XMLDocument instance. Doh! That wasn't an issue under the old COM libraries...
New problem is that XPath isn't available with the CF. The documentation is conflicting. The .NET CF Program Manager posted that it's not supported due to "size/performance requirements." Ironic considering that the COM libraries on CE do support XPath -- the performance sucks, but we are talking about a 200MHz PDA. Unfortunately, the CF doesn't support COM Interop either...
Such is the price of coding on the bleeding edge...
Adam Cury: I want my US Tv!
Lukwam has his TiVo wired to the web. I would pay real money to be able to download some of the shows. We live in europe and can't get many of the programs from the states until they go into syndication. I wouldn't mind paying both the producers/owners of the copyrights and my 'personal distributor'.
During my ex-pat period, on my one visit to Amsterdam, the hotel that I stayed at had more US programming than anywhere else that I ever stayed in Europe. The shows were English no less, sometimes (but not always) with Dutch subtitles. In other countries the programming was usually dubbed.
I got to watch a whole week's worth of JAG!
Mozilla / IE Gripe: Can't drag/drop links
Why can't IE navigate to a hyperlink dragged from Mozilla? Why can't Mozilla navigate to a hyperlink dragged from IE? Mozilla works with shortcuts but not links dragged from within a web page. IE won't work with bookmarks or links. Both browsers set themselves up as valid drop targets for those data types, however (a UI bug).
If Radio had a WYSIWYG widget for Mozilla, I could completely kick the IE habit. But there's no such widget, and I'm left wanting to drag "Post" links from my news aggregator in Mozilla to IE.
myRadio: Transforming Radio into something more...
This is a very early release of the myRadio aggregation framework for Radio Userland, another iteration towards Information Nirvana. Check it out This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework. The GUI (screenshot) is reminiscent of My Yahoo! and other server based personalization tools. The goal of this project is to very quickly bring all the functionality of server based personalization to the client, then use the client based architecture to develop way beyond!
I've had myRadio on my ToDo list for days, finally installed it tonight. I am floored by it's potential. In short: The myRadio framework recognizes that RSS and News Aggregators aren't always the best way to distribute and present information. Looking at myRadio purely as a replacement News Aggregator, the ability to group RSS feeds makes possible to effectively manage a larger number of feeds...
The comparison to My Yahoo! is very apt, My Yahoo! users will feel right at home. myRadio allows you to set up multiple pages, each customizable with multiple sources. My main myRadio page (screenshot) shows some stock quotes and weather information on the left, Yahoo! Groups and the News Aggregator on the right.
Each of these items is individually configurable. For instance, I have the News Aggregator on the main page configured to show only my uncategorized feeds (RSS feeds that aren't shown on other pages, no relation to Radio's categories). On my other pages (Dot Net, Pocket PCs, etc), I have the News Aggregator configured to show RSS feeds that are related to each other.
Right now, myRadio only has the four previously mentioned sources (Radio's News Aggregator, Yahoo! Groups, weather, stock quotes). Only the News Aggregator is native to myRadio, the rest are plug-ins. Therein lies the beauty of myRadio: any kind of data can be aggregated. And by breaking out of Radio's News Aggregator mold, non-news information (like the weather) can be displayed in an appropriate manner.
It is the Digital Dashboard for Radio. Userland needs to jump on board -- myRadio is a potential bing! for driving corporate deployments of Radio.
