Answering the ODEO Question

MAKE: Blog: ODEO Podcast service
Live from Etech: Blogger.com founder Evan Williams from ODEO gave a preview of the podcast recording, hosting and publishing service. Users will be able to play audio from any page (from the source location via Macromedia Flash) use tags, subscribe, add to queues, share queues, post comments, download for iTunes, WinMedia, etc. Keep reading for more information and photos…

Google Launches Developer Site

BetaNews | Google Curries Favor with Developers
"Google engineers have used their flex time to create a set of online tools for open source developers. The tools, found at the Google Code Web site, include Google APIs and libraries, a source code repository and other language-specific programming utilities.

Google has turned to third party developers to build on its own technologies including its AdSense contextual advertising program, desktop search, Gmail and Google Maps. The site is intended to build community around these different initiatives."

Compile PHP to .NET

Phalanger: PHP .NET compiler revealed
Tomas Matousek and Ladislav Prosek talk about their PHP .NET compiler, Phalanger. These guys don’t work at Microsoft, Charles Torre ran into them at a recent CLR compiler lab held on Microsoft’s main campus. Very cool stuff. You can learn more on their Web site.

This seems pretty cool, but I’m not sure what the point is unless you’re a PHP scripter suddenly dropped into a ASP.NET environment. I wonder if you could take PHP code and compile it to run on the dsesktop? BTW, works only with PHP 5.

Note Taking With Keynote

NewsForge | Keynote opens door for Windows note-taking
Keynote is an open source note-taking application for Windows, written in Delphi and released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). According to its developer, Marek Jedlinski, “Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control.” Roughly translated, this means that with Keynote, you can keep your notes in tabbed windows. Rather than one long column of text, you can create a multi-tabbed view, providing a visual breakpoint between areas of interest.

OpenSearch RSS

A9.com > OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication.

Dave Winer pointed to this an it seems intriguing. If I read it right OpenSearch RSS is an extension of RSS 2.0 that describes formating for search results such that the results returned are in RSS instead of whatever the engine would normally return.

This sounds interesting, but most search results can already be easily expressed as RSS without the extension.

Fiddler PowerToy – Powerful HTTP Debugging in IE

Internet Explorer Developer Center: Fiddler PowerToy – Part 1: HTTP Debugging
Have you ever found yourself wondering how Microsoft Internet Explorer interacts with your Web application? Have you encountered a strange performance bottleneck that you can’t track down? Are you curious about which cookies are being sent, or what downloaded content is marked as cacheable?

Microsoft Fiddler can help you answer these questions, and many more. Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy that logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler enables you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is much simpler to use than NetMon or other network debuggers because it exposes only HTTP traffic and does so in a user-friendly format.

Fiddler includes a simple but powerful Microsoft JScript .NET event-based scripting subsystem flexible enough to support a broad array of HTTP debugging tasks. Written in C# on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Fiddler is available as an unsupported PowerToy for Internet Explorer.

Does a lot of the things that the developer extenisons to Firefox do, but as a system proxy. You can even set Firefox to proxy thru it to get the same info. It is interesting to see the way sites can react to the different browsers. Download Fiddler here.