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I didn’t realise it until I subscribed to the results of a search in Google; Google indexes RSS feeds quickly, it was about 10 minutes or so between when I uplloaded the article to when I saw it in the results.Are the other people out there this fast. Technorati seem to be pretty quick now, but I have to prompt them with a ping. Googles, I didn’t have to do anything unless Blogger do it for you.

I had a little problem with my ATOM feed. It was truncating all the text in the description so it was looking odd. I hope this hasn’t effected any of my readers. It appears to be sorted now.

I have been having a problem in IE7 and Internet Explorer 6, by where if you dynamically create a checkbox, set it to checked = true and then add it in to the HTML document, it loses it’s checked status.var newCheck = document.createElement(’<input name=relatedSearchesChk>’); newCheck.type = “checkbox”; newCheck.onclick = updateCheckStatus;//Function to Call when clicked newCheck.relatedUrl = currSearch.Query;//Expando String newCheck.relatedObject = currSearch; //Expand Object newCheck.checked = isChecked; //DOESN’t WORK. isChecked is just a local Booelan Variable.

The second part of the C# Ping Tutorial is up. At the moment it doesn’t have much in the way of solid implementation, but this is a series of posts so expect more. It is quite a good post because he talks about what Ping packets look like and where they are on the communications stack.Anyway to quote the post. Let us start out by looking at requirements of the Ping client.

Read up about the Dojo Toolkit.

This is a really interesting post that I need to read more into. Matt Harrison was talking about making choices between various Ajax toolkits, frameworks, or libraries. He linked over to the OSA foundation and their Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries. Their survey discusses: Dojo DWR JSON-RPC-JAVA MochiKit Prototype Rico SAJAX Scriptaculous Xajax Sack The world of Ajax libs is an interesting one, as they cover various functionality. We blogged about the Ajax layers in the past:

I always find this kind of interesting After a long hiatus, I am back to posing to my blog. I am going to start out with a series on Socket programming. In this series, I will show you how to implement a simple Ping client using classes from the System.Net.Sockets  namespace. It should be an exciting journey. For starters, you can familiarize yourself with the RFC for ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) which is the protocol used by the PING client.

There is a fish eye effect javascript solution over at http://dojotoolkit.org/~alex/dojo/trunk/demos/widget/Fisheye.html it looks really neat. I don’t know how pratical it is but I really liked it.

A lot of people out there are talking about Page Rank and the iminent page rank up date. I can’t say that I am really bothered I have never had any and I doubt I ever will. Does it really matter that much? Email me or leave a comment if you know about it.I personally think it is a placebo that make people think that they understand google’s system, when in acutal fact it has relativly little meaning anywhere.

It has been pretty interesting designing this Object Model in JavaScript for OPML. Mainly because I have found several flaws in the design that if fixed will make it a lot better to use. I discovered them because I am using the Object Model directly in AJAX Tagger version 2.0.The basic problem is that I didn’t completly understand the OPML specification and I started to implement the mini API before I knew more about it.

Ajax Tagger Version 1 has been fixed again in the wikipedia document section. It now removes the “ - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” from the results section. This means that the page is now a lot clearer and it is easier to find related wikipedia documents. It makes sense really and it totally fits around the linking policy of Wikipedia which states that at least one reference to Wikipedia be made.

I am having trouble with Blogger’s BlogItemBacklinkCount tag for BackLinks. Does it work when you are hosting the blog on your own servers? I have a feeling it doesn’t, which led me to belive that none of it was automatic.

The JavaScript file can be found here. It is not fully complete, but a basic object model is up. I will try and document it later.

There is one thing I have never seen. A JavaScript OPML Object Model! I am just in the process of creating one for my AJAX Tagger version 2. I need the object model, because I need to create the document on the fly and then save out in a variety of ways. I also need it to be easily modifyable so that it updates in real-time as the user uses the application.

Related Images is now in AJAX Tagger version 2. The Images are pulled back from Flickr and will be able to be included in the post that the user is creating. It works pretty well, other than the fact all the images might be slow to download with IE’s limit on the number of concurrently open requests.I think it is a pretty darn cool feature. Especially when it is one of the things that can help get people to your blog

I posted to the mailing list two issues over the weekend. One about result number restriction: Hi, I was just reading the documentation which gives the following URL as an example: http://api.search.yahoo.com/MyWebService/V1/relatedTags?appid=YahooDemo&tag=yahoo&results=2 It is supposed to return only two results yet all 48 are returned? Is this correct? I need to start using this API and I don’t know if it will return the correct results. Kind Regards, Paul Kinlan

We had a little baby boy on 11th October 2005 at 9:33am. Jack Paul Francis Kinlan. 8lb 111⁄2oz.Mother and Baby are doing very very very very well! And are very very cute!!!I didn’t know whether to post about it not, so I have made up my mind. We thought we would give him a quiet first week.

David Silfry of Technorati fame has updated his blog with a new entry about the state of the Blogosphere. As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day About a new weblog is created each second 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs Between 700,000 and 1.

I have been thinking recently about the virtues of tagging. Using my applications Ajax Tagger andAjax Tagger I have noticed that there are not that many tags in use. Ajax Tagger 2 will give very basic statisitcal information about each suggested tag. I really don’t like this situation and hopefully I can explain why.Most people seem to use Tags for either a) Bringing more people to their blog. or b) Provide more information and links to other related blogs.

I don’t know why, but I don’t always agree with what Jacob Neilson says about useability issues. But his latest article about blog useablity is spot on the mark. I expect to implement several of his points. Especially a personal photo. I need to get my ugly mug about the Internet :)