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August 2004 - Posts

Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:17 PM

Outlook Adapter for BlogWave

Dan Hounshell is working on an Outlook Adapter for BlogWave . It isn't available yet but sounds pretty cool so far: It was fun working with Outlook and working the framework Addy supplied for adapters. It's pretty slick, it will get Tasks, Notes, Email

Posted by Addys | 2 Comments

Filed under: Tech Related, BlogWave

Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:38 PM

Signing off for a week or two

I'm moving apartments this week and will also be away on business (Toronto here I come...) so I won't be blogging for a while. Next BlogWave release will probably be around mid-September. Known issues with v0.3: - Drag-drop to create a new feed assigns

Posted by Addys | 2 Comments

Filed under: Personal, BlogWave

Sunday, August 22, 2004 8:19 PM

BlogWave FAQ

BlogWave Mini-FAQ Last Updated : 10/24/2004 Current Version : 0.99.1.5 (Beta 1.5) Download Link: http://www.addysanto.com/blog/blogwave/blogwave_vB15.zip (522K) Q. What is BlogWave? A. BlogWave is an "RSS Generator": a tool which can pull information

Posted by Addys | 36 Comments

Filed under: BlogWave

Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:09 PM

How to get noticed

Michael Swanson shares a brilliant! story of how he made sure that his resume would get noticed by Microsoft . I'm filing this one away in my favorite "interview/recruiting" stories :)

Posted by Addys | 0 Comments

Filed under: Tech Related

Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:45 PM

BlogWave version 0.3 (Alpha 3) - Released!

This release is full of cool new features. Drag-and-drop enables creating complex aggregate feeds in literally seconds. Context Menus. NNTP (newsgroup) support. A pluggable architecture and a C# code sample showing how to connect BlogWave to additional

Posted by Addys | 19 Comments

Filed under: .NET, BlogWave

Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:22 PM

"InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception" - Solved!

I finally solved the problems with enabling XP Visual Styles (Themes) which I described here . My initial attempt worked on some computers but not others; apparently there is some mystic connection between the themed activation context, the color of my

Posted by Addys | 7 Comments

Filed under: .NET

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:13 AM

Happy Birthday Roy!

Roy Osherove - Congratulations!

Posted by Addys | 0 Comments

Filed under: Personal

Friday, August 13, 2004 7:32 PM

Fighting the "InteropServices.SEHException: External component has thrown an exception" blues

<8/18/2004 update: see part II of this post, with a better solution: http://weblogs.asp.net/asanto/archive/2004/08/18/216825.aspx > .Net version 1.1 has a bug with XP Visual Styles which causes the following cryptic exception: "'System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException:

Posted by Addys | 5 Comments

Filed under: .NET

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:24 PM

Some Spam, a Chainletter and a Blog walk into a bar....

I'll be the first to admit that Luke Hutteman rocks (SharpReader is my primary aggregator!) but this post is very disturbing. It basically encourages people to create a chain-letter of blog posts with the sole intent of improving the google-juice of the