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Toy!

I have been considering writing my own blogging tool in C# as a learning exercise but the one piece that I was missing was how to handle remote posting w/o having to write my own pop3 email handler in C#. Today I found that missing piece, Craig's PopRouter. Found via Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog

From the sounds of Peter's and Sam's troubles with Radio I need to start this project sooner rather than later before I start experiencing the same errors.

C# and free functions

Is this not possible in C#?

I noted from my reading that C# does not overload the shift operators << and >> to do streaming like C++:

    cout << "Hello World" << endl;

I was wondering if I could implement them myself, just overload the << operator to take a stream and an object, convert the object to a string, push it out the stream and return the stream from the function. The problem comes when I realize that there can't be any free functions in C# so I have no 'place' to put my << operator. Is it really not possible to do this in C#?

Langauge War 2.0

Another completely civil discussion is going on in the comments section of Patrick Logan's site. What is the world coming to? [via Steven]