Jeff Perrin :: Archives for November, 2004
Monday, November 15th, 2004
Well, it’s now got a home of its own:
NPlanet homepage
There’s not much there… The site itself is running NPlanet, but there’s no documentation or anything as of yet. You basically just change the Planet.xml file anyways, and the syntax should be pretty self-evident. The default layout is composed of semantic markup, so you should be able to personalize everything from the CSS file.
The only problem I’m having is with caching the page output. Ideally, you don’t want to be hitting each and every feed with every page load. I’ve tried to setup ASP.NET output caching to cache the feed, however it doesn’t seem to be working. Help in that regard would be awesome. Anyways, feedback is welcome.
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
I spent a good chunk of time last night attempting to create a .NET version of the wonderful Planet feed aggregator. For those of you who don’t know what Planet is, it’s basically a Python based app that aggregates the feeds of many into one RSS feed. I think the goal behind it is to create communities or ‘Planets’ of blogs written by like-minded individuals. It differs in concept from applications like .Text (upon which this blog is based) in that it aggregates any feed from any location, instead of just containing a bunch of blogs all within one application and serving them from the same location. Think of it as a mini-Bloglines
Anyways, the code seems to work fine, although it doesn’t do Atom just yet (I’m using RSS.NET to grab all the feeds, which doesn’t support Atom). I’ve now just got to set up a webproject with all the simple default layout stuff taken care of so people can download the project and just start aggregating. The best part is there’s no database.
The feed parser has been merged into my TestostelesWeb package, and the web project will use TestostelesWeb’s nifty RssControl to display the aggregated feeds. It’s all starting to come together nicely. Give me a couple of days to get a package out.
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Saturday, November 13th, 2004
I have just recently set up a new project called Nsecticide.NET, based off of Microsoft’s ASP.NET Issue Tracker starter kit.
Project home page
Any feedback or suggestions are welcome
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
I present to you… The Hapless Moose
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Monday, November 1st, 2004
One of the really cool features of ASP.NET are the built in validation controls. For the most part, they work well, even though they have some issues. One of the things that bugs me about them is that they don’t scale particularly well. It becomes a pain to manage them when you have to go into each and every page to change their behaviour or look ‘n’ feel. Enter the following article, just posted on MSDN:
Dynamic Creation of Validation Controls
In my mind, this is the way the validators should have worked from the very beginning.
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