SharpReader is a RSS feed reader, very, very useful if you read a lot of newssites and blogs like I do:
Get it here
I once wrote something about how much you hate those MSN nicknames and looks what happens. All my referrers come from search engines with search phrases like “msn nicknames”. Which is a circular process, as the more people come here referred by one of those keywords, the more times those keywords appear on my frontpage (through the referrers section), my ranking raises and I get more hits through search engines on those keywords.
So if you want a lot of hits to your site, write about some general popular theme. Then write a script that displays all referrers in a growing list (be sure the title of the referring url is inluded on this list!). Then just wait, once somebody found your site through a search engine, it’s added to the list, your site is updated and now talks more about those keywords than it has ever before, upping your rankings in search engines. Yay!
Frans Bouma writes about things he thinks should change in newer Visual Studio and .NET releases here, some interesting ones:
.NET API
- Make all classes unsealed
- Make more classes serializable
- More classes should have abstract methods and virtual methods
- Implement more base classes
- Pay more attention when designing namespaces
- Add an API to work with XML the OO way
- If serialization to disk succeeds, deserialization should succeed too
- Make event handlers / delegate definitions maskable with [Nonserialized]
.NET CLR
- An easy way to get a reference of an object in the current appdomain
Somebody pointed me to this bit hostile, but “funny” game. The idea is simple, you’re in a car and you have to run over people… Indeed, it’s the most sophisticated game ever known to mankind and you can play it here.
To provide (still beta) PDF functionality in KeyTopic I used iText. OnJava now features an article that shows you how it works and how you can easily create free PDF documents from your application.
Steve Ferris has connected 13 monitors to his PCs, the results can be seen here. Cool…
