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Macromedia Beaten Again
It's always nice to see a product that you've invested significant time and effort in come out ahead of the big dogs. Articulate's "Presenter" product (which is one of those products that I have invested quite a bit of time in) just took 1st place going up against Macromedia's Breeze at a very respected e-learning conference, which leaves me feeling pretty good right now.
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Blockbuster
When Blockbuster started thier $20 a month unlimited rentals deal, I had a feeling it was a result of NetFlix's success. Looks my intuition was correct. You can now have Blockbuster deliver DVDs straight to your house for $20 a month.
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C# SWF Compiler Update
Robin's C# -> SWF compiler is coming along quite nicely.
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Bloggregator Refresh
The Bloggregator is becoming more kick ass every day. The latest preview download includes fixes and some more feature enhancements such as search functionality. Two types of search can be used right now. The first search lets you scan an web page for feed links (useful if you don't feel like browsing to a site just to find the rss link), the second lets you filter posts within feeds. Install instructions are still the same and are included in the readme if you don't remember.
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Microsoft Fights Back
Great response to Sun's new benchmark from Greg Leake of MS:
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ReSharper
JetBrains ReSharper is a must have for VS 2003 users. I highly recommend it. There are a few minor quirks that I have ran into, but the productivity boost is still great. This is by far the best VS.NET add-in I have encountered.
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Bush vs. Kerry
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AlwaysOn Summit Media
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More Aggregator Goodness
New aggregator build is available. You will need to re-run the db script since there is a lot of new table info. Enough functionality is there now that I am now using it as my default aggregator, but still a good bit to go before the release. New features include post flagging (like outlook's colored flag stuff), fixes, and some more ui work on the post view.
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Aggregator Updates
You can download the latest aggregator build from here. You will need MSDE installed and you will need to run the included SQL script to create some tables. This version adds persistence support for feeds and posts for those of you who emailed me and told me you wanted to start using it as your default aggregator already. As you can tell from the screenshot below, there are some minor UI tweaks in addition to the DB support. Some of the more noticeable UI changes are that posts that have already been read are now dimmed so that you can tell them apart from unread posts and post counts are added to the junk and unread messages folders.