Saturday, February 08, 2003

Syndirella   20030209. The changes to the locking code introduced in the previous build were incorrect, causing people to have deadlocks and other problems. These problems are now corrected. Syndirella automatically backs up its data file, and automatically loads the backup if loading of the latest version failed. Also, when saving data, it saves to a temporary location first, and replaces the real file with saved data only after the save has been successfully completed. This greatly reduces the probability of losing all the Syndirella subscription data in case of a crash. Removed the "unsupported version" checks from the data loading code. Now it should be safer to move from a newer build of Syndirella to an older one. Proxy authentication support. You can enter the proxy username and password in the Syndirella preferences dialog. Note: the password is stored in the settings file as plain-text, with no encryption. The handling of the isPermaLink attribute of the <guid> element was totally broken. Integrated rODBegbie's patch for changing the tray icon tooltip text. Added a menu command to mark all items in all feeds as read. Download binaries, sources or installer. [yole's devblog] 5:51:45 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

I wish I was going here too.      [Raible Designs :: We Build Web Apps] 1:25:31 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

NUnit rocks man - there, I said it :-). All of the discussions on the lists ( ASPAdvice.com ) about NUnit lately finally aroused my interest so I decided to read about it; seems pretty cool.  The article that I read was quite simple and well illustrated ( NUnit tutorial ).  I think that I'll do some roadtests with it on my current project! Spent a goodly amount of time doing some design work for another tool that I'm hoping to build that will enable me to use boilerplates to generate source code.  I read an article on MSDN which discusses how to use CodeDOM ( CodeDOM applications ) for generating source code. Initially I had planned that my tool would enable developers to create tools in an Xml syntax but it appears that I would have quite a bit of work to do to parse those types of templates to create a corresponding object graph - it all depends on how I set up the templates.  The easiest way would be similar to the HashTable demonstration in the downloads for that article - which is not my preferred option - we'll see :-) Syndarella issue! Noticed that the windows client that comes with Syndarella doesn't work well on computers with low resolutions!   The anchoring on the RichTextBox causes it to be a fixed size which means you cannot get to the buttons on the bottom of the form. <Note to="self" message="mention this to ScottW" /> [ShowUsYour-Blog!] 1:18:10 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Yosemite... Yosemite can add 204 campsites, study finds Yosemite National Park can offset the loss of some campsites a 1997 flood destroyed, a study concludes. [ModBee]   [The Campin' Guy's Radio Weblog] 11:45:54 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

The Ecology of Urban Habitats Contrary to expectations, urban landscapes are some of the most interesting ecologies. The variety of landscapes and microclimates (roads, parks, gardens, rail, canals, industries), the intense flow of exotic materials for commerce and gardening, and continual disturbance, all contribute towards many opportunities for nature. Due to such variety, cities are often more biologically diverse than the surrounding countryside. Nature is astoundingly creative, and keen to exploit subtle convoluted chance. Nature continues to happen, in more astounding forms, even within our most artificial environments. Some bizarre relations of humans and nature from The Ecology of Urban Habitats The overall result is that urbanized areas, despite a large reduction in the total vegetation cover, support a higher number of species than the surrounding countryside. [p. 11] .. tropical fauna and flora occurs in certain canals where water used to cool machinery is discharged. Thermal pollution of the River Don by the steel industry has enabled wild figs to colonize its banks, [p. 118] In fact all industry, as it gets tidied up, becomes less interesting for wildlife. The very features that allow a rich flora and fuana to survive - the squalor, rubbish, old buildings and machinery, derelict huts, rotting dumps, ineffiecient handling - are becoming unacceptable to management [p. 122] [Oxford ragwort] A native of Southern Italy, was cultivated in the Oxford Botanical Garden for over a hundred years before it eventually escaped (1794) and soon reported as plentiful on almost every wall in the town. About 1879 it reached the Great Western Railway system where the plumed seed engaged in a new form of dispersal, being carried along in the vortex of air behind express trains, or even inside them [p. 139] the reasons for caraway being limited to railway verges in Scotland ... caraway cake topped with fresh seeds was pocketed at post-funeral teas ... on the way home they tried to eat it, gave up and threw it out of the window [p. 142] A more subtle effect of dogs can be observed on the base of street trees against which they urinate. This area, known as the canine zone, carries a different epiphytic flora to the rest of the trunk. [p. 162] Starlings were successfully introduced into New York in 1890-91 as part of a project to establish in the States all the plants and animals mentioned by Shakespeare. [p. 171] .. [an] experiment took place in Germany during the Third Reich when exotics [foreign plants] became enemies of the state and for a short time naturalistic planting flourished ... [p. 184] [Brain Off] 10:33:53 AM    trackback []     Articulate []