FeedDemon rave!

Bingo!

A while back I asked, "I would love to open up my aggregator and the first thing I see is a newspaper like front page customized by me."

And now look!



Excellent!

FeedDemon language?

:005FB70E [FeedDemon.exe] Dxnavbar.TdxNavBarPainter.Paint (dxNavBar.pas, line 2870)

:005371A4 [FeedDemon.exe] Graphics.TCanvas.SetPenPos (Graphics.pas, line 2403)

:005FE6DB [FeedDemon.exe] Dxnavbar.TdxCustomNavBar.Paint (dxNavBar.pas, line 4152)

:0058406D [FeedDemon.exe] Controls.TCustomControl.PaintWindow (Controls.pas, line 8918)

:0057FF6C [FeedDemon.exe] Controls.TWinControl.PaintHandler (Controls.pas, line 6402)

:00580438 [FeedDemon.exe] Controls.TWinControl.WMPaint (Controls.pas, line 6547)

I'm testing out FeedDemon and loving it. While playing around I did something to make it crash. Looking at the stack dump I had to wonder...is it written in Delphi (or Pascal).

Wow!

For those who've never tried, Borland products rock!!

Google Toolbar

Google Toolbar: "Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups.
AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button.
BlogThis: Create a weblog post pointing to the page you are visiting. "

I've got it installed now...nice =)

Found the HREF EXE problem

I found that by default Windows 2003 Server has the "Expire immediately" option checked for Content Expiration. I was having problems with running HREF EXE's from a virtual directory with this option set. Once I disabled it they loaded fine.

It seems to me that with "Cache-Control: no-cache" in the response header the CLR's loader was getting confused.

Has anybody looked into this further?

(BTW - BIG thanks to Simon fell for his wonderful tool: TcpTrace)

REFERENCE DATA:

/* == IIS 5.0 == */



GET /myapp.exe HTTP/1.1

Accept: */*

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 ...

Host: localhost:8080

Connection: Keep-Alive





HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:02:42 GMT

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:48:20 GMT

ETag: "0aae7c34ee7c21:95f"

Content-Length: 110592



MZ?





/* == IIS 6.0 == */



GET /myapp.exe HTTP/1.1

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, 

  image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, 

  application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, 

  application/msword, */*

Accept-Language: en-us

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 ...

Host: localhost:8081

Connection: Keep-Alive





HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Cache-Control: no-cache

Content-Length: 65536

Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:23:08 GMT

Accept-Ranges: bytes

ETag: "0c6ae3e4be7c21:4ae"

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:07:22 GMT

HREF EXE's with Windows 2003 Server

Anybody else having problems running HREF EXE's from Windows 2003 Server?

If so email me (richard@caetano.com)...I need to discuss ideas with somebody in the same boat.

Ms IM Checkers

I had fun playing checkers with Ingo and Simon today. I really like how they built that into messenger...it's one of those things that "just works".

I'm open just about anytime for a game...just ping me with MS Messenger 6.0: riccaetano@hotmail.com

I have an idea for IE's future...

Here's an idea for a stagnate IE...

give out the source code!

Leave the "official" version at 6.0 or whatever but give out the source. Treat it like the Rotor/CLR source code so folks can apply their own cool ideas!

Maybe then somebody would have the time to push out the code as a set of .NET assemblies...now that would be cool!