Hello.

I have been trying to play with Blogger BackLinks, and I can say that I don’t really like them. I don’t really like them because people have to use them! I was expecting Blogger Backlinks to automatically link into the Google Blog search to find a list of all the blogs that link to my post. And then update my page from there.I think what I will do is develop a version that does use them, it will fire a query off to Google and see what happens from there.

Hypothetically Speaking, would you like to let readers of your blog know of up and comming events that are related to a particular entry.If for instance you wrote about Apple Macs, would you like your readers to know of Mac Expos. Or if you write about World War 2, would you like to let your readers know of events such a commeration days?Leave a comment, I am quite interseted in knowing :) or email me: paul.

Following a comment on my blog from James Manning It should be pretty straightforward. With 2.0 there’s built-in support for decompression of SOAP replies. Check out the article that got posted last year @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/wsnetfx2.asp [Via C#, .Net Framework]Thanks for the comment, however unfortuantly Yahoo doesn’t use SOAP to access their API’s. However, it is really handy to know because it might be of use with Amazons API’s which do have a SOAP interface.

There is an interesting post over on MSDN Blogs (IEBlog) by the IE Team. It discusses that some of the CSS hacks that people have used to get around some of the issues with IE5 and IE6, wont work in IE7. They appear to be breaking changes so many peoples web pages will have to be changed to get the system working correctly. If you are a web developer and expect to target IE7, then I would recomend that you take a quick look to see if you are affected by the changes.

Following my post about a lack of bluetooth communications libraries for desktop style pc’s. Mark Arteaga has pointed me towards 32Feet.net, which has a managed library. I have not had a chance to look at it just yet, but when I do I will let you know what it is like.From the sample it looks pretty simple to use. Discovering devices looks like it can return an array of bluetooth accessbile systems via: BluetoothDeviceInfo[] bdi = bc.

I have just seen over on StupidFool.org, that Latricia has updated the XML::Feed CPAN module to be able to splice RSS/ATOM feeds into one ATOM feed.So I recently updated my XML::Feed module on CPAN to support feed format conversion and splicing, and built a simple feed splicer that takes multiple feeds, splices them together, and produces an Atom feed that contains all of her activity. It’s not specific to Mena, of course–it could be used for any combination of feeds.

Scott’s “SiteExperts” Place has a pretty good conversation about cross domain security when it comes to XMLHttpRequest. Many web applications that “mash-up” or integrate data from around the web hit the following issue: How do you request data from third party sites in a scalable and cost-effective way? Today, due to the cross-domain restrictions of xmlhttprequest, you must proxy all requests through a server in your domain. … This problem arises because the xmlhttprequest object can only communicate back to the originating domain.

I am debating if I should go with compression of the Yahoo Search Results from my proxy following this post [Yahoo Developer Blog Entry]. I am trying to work out if it will be A) easy, B) worth it and C) Where to put it.I could compress the results back to the client or compress the results to the proxy and then decompress the results to the client. Either way I will have to code for some fallback support, because some people who use my App might not have compression support in their browser and thus my proxy will have to detect that.

Ok, it looks like all my posts seem to include the trackback style linking. Sorry Blogger :)Anyway, I still stand by my complaint about launching a feature with naff documentation.

Currently, the next version that is being created is quite complex [Ajax Tagger 2.0]. It provides the user with the ability to add a lot of extra data to a journal entry. I am just wondering if you guys would like a simple version my original Tagger [Original Ajax Tagger].Any comments?

Blogger.com has introduced a new feature: Trackbacks. The only problem is, if you have’t got one of their templates you can’t enable it easily because there documentation is not completed see here: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1216Come on Blogger, when you introduce a feature can you at least have some good, completed documentation!! Other than that, at least your introducing new features :)

I might as well make my AJAX Tagger in to an WinFX Application. I can then do some experimentation and the like :) Intergrate into a load of webservices and stuff :)

Over on Pingoat, he is having problems with Technorati not indexing them or any of the pings [http://www.pingoat.com/goatlog/post/index/26/Technorati-problem]. I had this problem a while back and I am still getting it over on www.tagger.com. I think it might stem from if they try to spider your site and some part of it is not responsive then they take you out of their list of “blogs which work”. I am not too sure how to get it back in, unless you constantly complain in high profile places!

They have a tagger that works off what other people are talking about.http://www.tagyu.com/You insert your blog entry in there and then you get some tags. It is pretty neat, but mine will be neater (when it is done)! :)

Wikipedia document retrieval is in the application now, however I have made a slight omission with the way that I have designed the application. Currently the application has a basic object model:A Tag Group has a collection of Tags; each Tag has selected information such as Related Self Blog Entries, Related Statistics and Related Wikipedia Articles. However each of tag doesn’t know or care about the information other tags contain. This is the problem, because Tag “A” doesn’t know about Tag B’s Related Wikipedia documents, they migh duplicate the content in the related articles section of the application.

I have just got Burnout Revenge for the XBox. I loved Burnout 3, so I thought I would try this. I think it is a vast improvement over the last game. I really like the music in it. I really like the graphics and the sense of speed. I really love the new levels and games. However, what has slightly got my goat is that the AI although very good is a bit predicatble.

I have broken support for the time being in the related Wikipedia articles of the AJAX Tagger. It is broken because I have update one of my Yahoo: Perl Proxy Scripts for version 2 of the AJAX Tagger. I will try and update the page to get it working soon :)

It is comming along quite well. The priority queues seem to work okay. I think the number of queues and the polling interval might need to be tweaked but it is still good.One area that is not working too well is querying the Technorati search engine about the number of Post a Tag is in. It is really slow, it takes about two seconds to perform a query. That is a bit too slow.

I have no idea how or why, but the http://www.iaea.org/ is one of the biggest referers to my site this month. I have checked their site to see why but I can’t for the life of me work out why :) I hope I am not being investigated, obviously my home brew nuclear power plant has caused alarms somewhere ;)

I am still working on the development of AJAX Tagger 2. Currently I am developing a little framework that will help me query datasources.I have developed a priority queue for AJAX Requests. There are 5 queues and work is delegated between the queues based on the need of the request. An urgent request will get placed in the queue that cycles the fastest, a non-urgent request will get placed in a queue which only cycles every once in a while.