Archive for February, 2004
February 16, 2004 at 8:03 pm · tags: Misc
Ever needed a free live CD of your favourite operating system? For linux based OS you have Knoppix, Suse Live, Gentoo Live, the new Mandrake Live CD and so on… but for Windows? No way til now… someone has done the job. Here you are what I’ve found on the net, BartPE:
Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800×600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
February 13, 2004 at 9:30 am · tags: Misc
I’ve changed the URL of my own RSS feed, so please update your aggregator. RSS 1.0 feed
February 12, 2004 at 10:53 pm · tags: Misc
It’s been a considerable period since I heard about Longhorn from the developer view (and user too), but everyday Longhorn seems much far away. After the PDC in October 2003 my aggregator has begun to drown in a ton of hyper-enthusiastic posts about Avalon, Indigo, WinFX, WinFS and so on. I have nothing against Longhorn and less nothing against the MS guys (or not MS) who post about it but today is the twelfth day of Februrary 2004, and 2/3 years in IT are literally an era.
In addition in these days i came through posts such as Josh Heitman’s and my opinion that it’s too early get confirmed. Some other guys and girls have a similar opinion about the “new” bleeding edge technologies.
February 11, 2004 at 6:42 pm · tags: Database DotNET
I’m pleased to announce you the first public version of the QueryDOM, a growing library whose aim is the generation of SQL queries and data layers at runtime. This version also contain a parser (in alpha state). Must see 
February 7, 2004 at 5:19 pm · tags: Misc
In the last 5 minutes I was busy trying Gush, a very interesting application that I’ve found on the net.
Gush makes instant messaging and news aggregation simple, functional, and attractive. Gush excels at the functionality it provides without including the kitchen sink. Everything has a purpose, from the unique Split Chat mode, to conversation management, to Group Announcements, and even tabbed news browsing.
The features are:
- Instant messing (using the Jabber Protocol)
- RSS Reader
- Instant messaging blog
- Very powerful interface
I guess that some screenshots speak better than a lot of words: http://www.2entwine.com/screenshots/
update:
Gush is mainly written in Python… wow!
February 5, 2004 at 11:39 am · tags: AtomNET
I’ve fixed a couple of things in the Atom.NET homepage, not it validates against XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD and againt the W3C CSS validator. Someone told me that the page looks like a mess in IE5 for Win but… I don’t care, it’s too buggy as a browser… so let’s upgrade to IE6 or (better) change browser (try Mozilla Firebird). Bye!
February 5, 2004 at 10:29 am · tags: XML
February 5, 2004 at 10:26 am · tags: RSS Syndication
Mark Pilgrim explains that there are too many versions of RSS, and he’s right: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss.
February 3, 2004 at 9:50 pm · tags: AtomNET
I released the 0.3 version of my atom library. Now it contains also an atom parser to parse atom 0.3 feeds. Here are the changes:
* fixed AtomGenerator constructors
* added AtomReader to parse atom feeds
* fixed a bug in a private method that invalidated parsing if the first <link> hasn’t “alternate” attribute
* added IsIso8601Date(), IsIso8601DateLocal(), IsIso8601DateTZ() to validate iso 8601 date/times
* fixed some bugs with date/time representation in <modified>, <created>, <issued> elements
* fixed a bug in the serialization of xml:lang attribute
* added application/x.atom+xml in media types
* Utils class is no longer istantiable or inheritable
Homepage: http://atomnet.sourceforge.net
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