Monday, December 02, 2002

I first saw Technorati show up in my referers early last week, but I'm just now getting a chance to play with it. It will take me some time to tour my own cosmos! My first question is can I get additions to my list of inbound blogs and inbound links as an RSS feed?... Addendum: David Sifry left a comment noting that I could get a Watchlist of my inbound blogs and links for $5/year. Very cool! He's thinking about making this information available as an RSS feed for $10/year, and he wants to know if this is a good price point. I think it is, since I'd prefer this information in my aggregator since I'm already on the web at that point. I have to figure out a better way to do email (I'm currently pulling it down to a specific PC in the house) before it would be useful to me there. But let David know what you think about the pricing. You can read more about Technorati at David's site, Sifry's Alerts. It's a very interesting project that I hope succeeds. It's aggregate resources like this that will help with conversations and social networks. [The Shifted Librarian] 7:31:33 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

VS.NET Alternatives. Patrick asks - what do people use when VS.NET isn't an option... Personally I've been using the Beta for PrimalCode. But I'll probably not use much longer. Sure it has IntelliSense and rudimentary project management, but I just can't get into using it. There is something about it that I can't put my finger on. Its been awhile since I've tried #develop (using their new spelling). I might have to try it out again after looking at the milestone 0.92 beta features and fixes. But for right now, my primary coding utility is TextPad for writing the code, NAnt for compiling it, and NAnt for deploying it. I get asked all the time by some of the people I work with if I miss IntelliSense. And I have to say in all honesty - no. Do I like it? Sure. But what I miss the most is being able to hit F1 on top of a method and get the help for it. But I've got hotkeys setup that bring up the .NET Framework SDK help files and position it right on Index. So all I have to do is type ClassName.Member and it finds it. Not quite as fast as IntelliSense, but it works for me. And I really and truly can't stand Web Projects in VS.NET. I hate that it sticks files in two different locations. [News from the Forest] 7:30:39 PM    trackback []     Articulate []