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Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
Amazon RSS - books delivered to your news aggregator!.
Quote: "Another Amazon Web Services experiment. The idea is this: say you're interested in books about weblogs. Wouldn't it be nice to have an RSS feed for all weblog-related books at Amazon, so that when new books became available you'd know about them? Thanks to the magic of web pipelines (Amazon >> XML over HTTP >> XSLT >> ASP >> RSS >> Your News Aggregator), it's become a pretty trivial thing to put together."
Comment: Hmm. Idea percolating... Faculty need to enter their book order information each semester. Form asks for ISBN. Use ISBN to get the rest of the data from Amazon. If we didn't have a bookstore contract, I'd then link to Amazon using a college associate ID. As it is, then keep data in database and notify bookstore of new request (e-mail? web interface?). Bookstore should really have its own online system for this, mind you.
Then marry database to course listing so that courses include book and syllabus info (separate system). [Serious Instructional Technology]
11:35:23 PM 
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WinForms over the Web.
WinForms Over the Web. I did a talk at the local Portland Area .NET User's Group [1] on zero-setup deployment of WinForms applications over the web, including versioning, caching, optimization, debugging and security. This talk is also an excerpt from DevelopMentor's Essential WinForms course [2], which I highly recommend (although I'm hardly unbiased : ).
[1] http://www.padnug.org
[2] http://develop.com/dm/course.asp?id=131 [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]
This is great stuff Chris, as I was just having a discussion with Paresh Suthar the other day on web based applications and their advantages. Paresh had a concern about the lack of richness in web or IE interfaces compared to WinForms. I see a lot of IT clients though where the zero client install (nothing to install locally, no registry settings( and having one browser interface is much easier for IT staff to deploy and support. The richness of WebForms is quite appealing as well, however not as good as WinForms. This seems like a good combination (WinForms over the Web) to address the issues while still keeping the versioning, fast deployment, etc of the web model ( I think). [Sam Gentile: Sams .NET Stuff]
11:31:58 PM
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'Nother Programming Competition. Looks like Chris isn't the only person holding a programming competition at the end of August: the 5th IFCP Programming Contest runs August 30-September 2. The target OS for this competition is Linux on Intel, I wonder if one could enter both competitions at the same time using C# on Mono? Prizes for the IFCP competition range up to $1000 in hard cash & free ICFP conference passes, plus kudos for the language used. It would be amusing to have C# declared "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers", wouldn't it? ;-) [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
11:12:53 PM
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The Richness of the Web.
I read a lot of .NET mailing lists, and it seems like a very predominant theme these days is people asking how to make their browser app richer, and act less like a browser app. To these people I want to say:
Learn Windows Forms. Go read things like Chris Sells' description of zero-install deployment of Windows Forms apps over the web. You'll probably be a lot happier when you stop treating the browser like an application development platform. Let's stop deluding ourselves: the web browser is a shitty tool for application development. It's a huge time-sucking pain in the ass that is being bent to do things it was never intended to do. Use the right tools!
Link Discuss [The .NET Guy]
6:46:39 PM
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