Miguel from the mono project does it again: A 100% managed command prompt library to help us build windows console apps that behave almost as well as those in the unix world.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
I’ve slowly moved all my RSS feeds into google reader and have been using it quite extensively lately. I’ve even gotten to enjoy the custom UI they built for reader on the iPhone.
Anyhow was catching up on my news the other day on my crappy M700 and found myself thinking, “I wish I could just have a reader UI with a subscription tree and viewing pain”. 2 minutes of googling later and I gound this on userstyles.org.
It uses the stylish add-on for Firefox as well, and was exactly what I wanted. Love these geeky lazy-web satisfied moments.
So I tried to update my iPhone software on friday to get better 3G, at the end of the update the machine wouldn’t start again or activate.
Cue 20 minutes of “oh shit”. A restore from the pre-update backup meant a working 2.0.2 iPhone though, but that’s no way for a “polished” system upgrade to work.
First spotted on mobile crunch a few days ago, Nokia has an email client for it’s S60 OS in what they call their beta labs. Didn’t know about this before, but seems like it will be a cool place to get your S60 bleeding edge wares.
It doesn’t support corporate email systems yet, so I don’t think push calendar is available yet.
So one thing that’s been most disappointing about my recent move to iPhone world has been the lack of decent software tools. It seems that most of the app devs have not had enough time to port their apps over to the 2.0 version of the iPhone OS.
I can’t find a decent multi-protocol IM client in either App Store or other sources that doesn’t require me to give up all my IM credentials to another 3rd party. And in case you didn’t get that part, this means Parlingo and Meebo are out of the question. I’d rather keep my passwords to myself thank you very much.
Update: It looks like fring may be the one. Can’t get it on the iphone 3G yet so will have to wait and see.
As a pda with voice call capabilities it’s an incredible device, mainly due to the UI.
As a phone with convergence capabilities, it’s bordering on crap.
I’m already pretty sick of Apple’s walled garden approach to the device. Why can’t I use it as a mass storage device?
I caved and got one. Will give it a few months before I consider going back to a more fuller featured phone.
The first app I installed was the worspress app that this post was made from.
Dear Lazyweb,
We use log4net as a logging mechanism for a high performance transactional system extensively, but the problem we’ve been having lately is that the log files are often spread accross multiple clustered machines.
Is there a simple way to get performant centralized logging using log4net accross a clustered web server environment?
Update: Not sure if it’s quite a simple way to go, but this has definitely already been done using a RemotingAppender and corresponding sink.
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