Hello.

I think I know how and where I can use OPML in the next version of the AJAX Tagger [note the new version doesn’t do anything yet].I will let you all know later :)

A lot of stuff has been happening recently, and I haven’t had much of a chance to update my blog or version 2 of AJAXTagger.I am currently working on version 2 when I get some free time :) [you can see a very early version here].I have had to over come some minor issues with the JavaScript, but I am starting to build up a pretty cool framework. I do need to point you to http://blog.

I have just cancelled my XBox live account. I hadn’t used it for 3 months, partly because my connection was so poor [not an XBox thing, it was our Wanadoo account]. Let me just say, it was cancelled in about 2 minutes. No messing. I don’t know if I should be happy, they didn’t offer me a couple of months free or anything ;)Maybe when the XBox 360 arrives I might plum for it again.

This is just a quick question about my AJAX Tagger and my journal entries. Do you like the article links? Are they any use to you? Do you have any recomendations?Email me: paul.kinlan@gmail.com or leave a comment.

Does anyone know if it is possible to simulate worker threads in JavaScript. I need a method of constantly polling a particular resource and dispatching events based on conditions in that resource.Currently I am thinking that I will have to have methods triggered off timers. Is this acceptable?

Okay, here goes. This is the start of the requirements that I have gathered/made up/learnt that the next version of AJAXTagger should achieve. I am finding it quite hard to get the requirements down, so I think the best thing to do is to break them down in functional areas. My application should really achieve all of these for it to be a success (in my terms anyway).Features of the application

I seem to be always complaining that there are no good references/directories to companies who offer web services. I finally found one http://www.programmableweb.com/apis. It is a pretty decent list of some major API’s on the Web. It does however, highlight the pitiful lack of companies offering decent API’s to developers.

Watch this if you are interested in the future of C#, it is as simple as that.The video includes lots of information from the main man (Anders Hejlsberg) behind the language. Regardless of LINQ, you see some of the features in the video that are really important such as the ability to extend classes with methods without having to make a derived class and (something what I am coming around too) Lambda functions.

In some of my previous posts, the Wikipedia articles where out of sync with what was in the text. This was a problem with the AJAX Tagger. I introduced a very stupid error. It is fixed now.

I have just been reading some bits about [read: one or two posts] about some of the language features of C# 3.0. One of the new concepts is something called Lambda Expressions, while I am still trying to work out why they might be useful, I can tell you now I don’t like the sytnax at all; It looks nothing like C#; It looks convoluted; It looks NASTY!!!If someone knows better [most probably most of the world :)] then please leave a comment or email me: paul.

There is now a developer toolbar made by Microsoft for Internet Explorer both IE7 and IE6. Just installing it throws up lots of warnings in the Microsoft Anti Spyware tool, and it requires a restart of the Computer!!! Why does it need to do that! [I found that it works without a restart]Anyway I am about to start playing with it. I will let you know what it is like.Here is the article taken from the blog entry.

Directly from IE Teams Blog,Weve also continued to add web developer platform features and fixes: weve continued to fix CSS and other web standards bugs, but weve also rebuilt the <select> element as a windowless control, so it can be visually layered under other elements. IE 7 implements a native XMLHTTPRequest object for JavaScript applications, instead of requiring an ActiveXObject to be created. This also means XMLHTTPRequest will function on machines that have ActiveX disabled.

I have just been fiddling with the AJAX Tagger. Based on my previous entry about Wikipedia Integration I have now added support for generating links directly to related Wikipedia articles.The results are shown below which are for this article if that makes sense. They were created in about a minute and I think they are all pretty relevant.One of the things that I have noticed is that sometimes the URL isn’t the direct url to wikipedia, sometimes it is the ClickUrl in the Yahoo search results.

I am just working on some requriements for the next version of the AJAX Tagger application. If any of you could get back to me then I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Would you as a user like to be able to have the posistion of the tags configurable? What I mean by this is would you like the option to include links to technorati tags inline with the blog entry or at the end of the article.

I am just working on some requriements for the next version of the AJAX Tagger application. If any of you could get back to me then I would greatly appreciate your feedback. The reason why I created the AJAX Tagger is that it allowed me to add value to my blog entries by linking readers of my blog with other blogs of a very similar topic. Would you like to be able to have it use different sources rather than Technorati.

Channel 9 has had a major influx of Video’s. Way to go! These are really good videos and give an amazing about of information about Windows Vista.Rob Franco and team - IE 7 Security Steve Ball - Learning about Audio in Windows Vista Abolade Gbadegesin and team - Networking in Windows VistaThere is a more complete list of videos here.

I just recieved a nice email from Gaby de Wilde, this is the first person who I don’t know directly who has used my AJAX Tagger. He even gave me a link on his site. Thanks!! I have taken the feedback and will add some of your suggestions to my requirements for the next version.Anyway, take a trip over to his blog to see my tags in action.If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate feedback.

After having a little moan [the only way I can describe it], two members of the MSN Start.com team got back to my email response. Basically the gist of what they said is that they are swamped with extra work that they have to do on this project but will be working on the section that handles mouse clicks from events like closing a panel down. They said that they will probably replace the mouse down event with a mouse up event.

I just recieved a reply from some of the people at MSN’s Start.com about some feedback I sent to them, I will talk about it tomorrow when I get a couple of spare moments :)Anyway thanks to Venkat and Hadi for their responses. I appreciate it.More Tomorrow. I have a couple of posts that I want to get up! I have just been really busy at the moment.

Don’t get stuck in to ATLAS just yet.Everyone, make sure I don’t do this. I don’t have the time for this project and also it is not done .Net [although that is my day job].