08 February 2003

Peter Drayton managed to post the following at 5:21 AM: Google2RSS is a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits. [Sam Gentile's Weblog] 7:15:53 PM     PermissionGrabber. Yesterday I vowed to turn on SecurityManager all the time, and figure out the necessary policy files for Java applications that I use. Ross mused that it would be cool if the Java runtime provided a flag to generate this information automatically. What a great idea! And, who needs help from the runtime? PermissionGrabber is a simple Java app that will execute some other Java app, figure out what permissions it needs to run, and generate an appropriate policy file. All you have to do is java PermissionGrabber SomeApp I just threw this together and can think of a few dozen little enhancements already. Let me know if this is cool and what you would like to see added. [Ockham's Flashlight] 10:29:10 AM     Dogfood. In my neverending quest to amuse myself by confusing myself, I've reimplemented my Xml2CodeDom tool in XML so that it can now generate itself. It took over 1600 lines of XML to generate only 130 lines of C# code so I don't expect that developers will be flocking over to this new format anytime soon. It was a fun experiment while it lasted. This could, however, have some interesting applications for language agnostic code generation. Maybe tools like CollectionGen could use something like this in order to support all features for more than just one language without having to actually duplicate the logic for each language. [authorities here are alert.] 12:14:32 AM     ConsoleHost. This is my version of Scott Guthrie's example demonstrating how to process ASP.NET requests outside of IIS. Mine automatically copies itself to the current directory's bin subdirectory (else it won't work) and also allows you to pass in parameters from the command line. I had trouble getting Radio to "upstream" this file until I changed the extension. Anybody know what's up with that? [authorities here are alert.] 12:11:50 AM

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