RSS Bandit Future

I've posted my current plans for RSS Bandit. Basically I want to split the project into GUI and RSS processing bits then hand off the GUI part of the project if I can find a good steward. The only GUI feature I feel that I need to add myself is the auto-updating feature since that requires setting up a server and other logistics. A few people have expressed interest in reusing the RSS processing code but dislike my GUI which is surprising given this is the first Windows GUI app I've ever written.

Torsten Rendelmann has been chomping at the bit to rewrite the GUI using the Magic library and I'll see how that goes once I split the project up.

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Scalable APIs and XML

A little while ago I wrote about Scalable APIs and XML in the .NET Framework. So it turns out that one of the editors of XML Journal is a reader of my weekly ramblings and thought my ideas were interesting enough for an article.

My writing queue is pretty full but it would be cool write down what I thought worked and didn't work from an API perspective for our users. This would be particularly useful for the design work I'm currently doing involved in. Hopefully I can start on this in the next two months.

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Cutting of Your Nose to Spite Your Face

Am I the only one that thinks this is extremely petty? I'm glad I don't feel obligated to avoid Sony products, certain Open Source applications or the most popular search engine in the world simply because they are produced by competitors of the B0rg.

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Subscriber Only Weblog Posts

A recent post on Joel Spolsky's weblog ends with the following paragraph

Excerpted from my latest article, "Building Communities with Software," which will only be sent to email subscribers. Please subscribe now to receive the article, which will be sent out on Monday morning.

I'm perplexed as to why Joel would want to restrict content to email-only subscribers. The only reason to do this would be if he was collecting email addresses for some sort of spam or advertising purposes but Joel wouldn't jeopardize his reputation for something as trifling as that. I don't get it.

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