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So I’ve been quiet lately. and there’s good reason.
I’d like to announce the new version of the Podfeeder.com
website.
It’s more than a directory now, and a full text of the
release can be found here
I’ve just announced to the ipodder-dev group also, so we’ll see what comes out of it.

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Sorry for not posting for ages, but I’ve been super busy with moving podfeeder into something much much cooler.
On a similar note, I decided to make the popular image CSS’d. I figure it would be a decent bandwidth savings considering how often it will be appearing on the site.
so […]

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This is sort of hard to find, so I figure I’d post it.
Let’s say you have a windows application in C# and you want to do the whole notify icon thing. Here’s a trick so when you minimize your window, it doesn’t show up in the taskbar.
protected override void OnResize(EventArgs e)
{
    if ( this.WindowState == […]

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Granted podcasting is new, and sort of a hot buzzy meme, but what if Wikipedia had someone podcast their article of the day?
Same goes for the word-of-the-day stuff with the dictionary sites.

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I decided to create a place for people to post podcasts. From here you can, then get RSS feeds to use with ipodder.
Have fun.

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In checking out ipodder.org and Dave’s article on the anatomy of an iPodder, I’ve got a couple of questions.
Looking at the short show list on ipodder.org why can’t we employ the Replay-Radio people out there along with some RSS goodness to come up with a rotating archive of radio shows?
Say I am willing […]

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Just got word from some of the wikipedia people about the new “Article of the day” by email feature they have.
Here’s what they say:

CJM -
First, let me begin by saying that I’m the one who chooses the featured articles for Wikipedia’s main page.
I saw September 15 post re: wikipedia’s featured article by […]

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I thought I’d give the Google programming contest this year and see how it went.
The tricky thing was going to be that I’m on vacation and down on the coast of Oregon on the beach and such. I was thinking I’d have to go find wireless somewhere, but it turns out that the […]

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Hack #1931
I decided to do a small mod to the wikipedia AOTD hack and submitted the Dave Barry latest column email service.
The one downside to this is that it emails everyday, so if Dave doesn’t write, you get it the “latest” anyway.
Another interesting note is that Wikipedia now offers an “Article of the Day” by […]

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I put this up awhile ago, but figured it is interesting enough to post about.
I’ve been using some software I wrote back in February that is a personal tinyurl. [Write up about it here]
The first thing I did was display the last 10 items that were shrunk. That turned into not remembering shrunk […]

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