You have to look closely, but Figure A of Mike’s article is showing a NewsGator folder. Cool! Too
bad the toolbar was turned off… ;-)
Outlook 2003 offers many new features, but it will cost you – An article I co-authored for TechRepublic. [Larkware News]
With most news aggregators available today, you can read weblog posts.
NewsGator 1.1 offers excellent integration with Outlook; and given a weblog post, you can forward it via email.
Tomorrow, May 20, 2003, everything changes.
NewsGator 1.2. Available Tuesday.
In a post about
programming languages and XML, Don
Box says:
the real challenge is bringing
hoards of developers who jumped on the OO train and believe that no other
approach to design or implementation is reasonable.
Today I was looking for a way to do nested expression matching with regular expressions, and pretty much came up empty. Then after a trip to the bookstore to pick up Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl, I finally found it.
Interestingly, even now that I know what to search for :-), I can’t find a single reference to this on the net or on MSDN.
With the .NET regular expression evaluator, there are (?<DEPTH>) and (?<-DEPTH>) constructs that you can use to match nested expressions; for example, if you want to find matching parentheses, or matching HTML tags. Here’s a “simple” example that will match nested <div> tags:
<div> (?><div (?<DEPTH>) | </div (?<-DEPTH>) | .? )* (?(DEPTH)(?!))</div>
Which will match the part in red below:
<div>this is some <div>red</div>text</div></div></div>
This is pretty cool, I’ve got to say. I really can’t do this justice; if you’re interested, I recommend you pick up the book!
(warning: blatant
NewsGator plug ahead!) Ok, so I’m a little
bit behind. :-) In a post back in April, Dave
Winer says:
RSS readers that work like Usenet
readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not
organize news by where items came from, just present
the news in reverse chronologic order.
He got some agreement, and some disagreement.
My vote? Why not use an aggregator that will do
both?
I’m pleased to announce that NewsGator 1.2 will include full support for IBlogExtension, and we will simultaneously release plug-ins for most major weblog publishing tools.
Apparently the Blogger folks were first to the BlogThis name by about 4 years, so BlogThis is now IBlogExtension, and the interface definition has be revised based on earlier discussions between Greg, Luke, Matt, and I. The revised assembly is available on the IBlogExtension page. I’ll be posting versions of Synderilla and Relaxer that support this soon.
Addy Santo suggests that aggregators support full text searching:
Is anyone out there willing to take on a real challenge? Then how about adding full text indexing into your aggregators!
In September 2001, Alex Zanardi was involved in a horrific accident in a CART race at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany. He spun on the pit road re-entering the track with 13 laps remaining, and was hit by another car moving at nearly 200mph. He lost both of his legs in that accident.
Today, CART returned to Lausitz, and before the race, Alex was allowed to run 13 laps in a specially prepared car with hand controls. Not one to take it easy, Alex was flat on the throttle by the 4th lap, and ran a lap over 194mph. It’s hard to know if the car was in qualifying trim, but if so, that lap would have put Zanardi on row 3 of the grid for today’s race.
Alex, congratulations on what must have been an amazing day for you. You’re an inspiration to drivers everywhere.
