Simon Fell > Its just code

Sunday, March 03, 2002

In between re-staging a dev box, managed to get most of the changes done to support setting specific arrayTypes in PocketSOAP (this is the last interop issue that i'm aware of :) ). All that's left is to tweak the code that generates the proxy code from the WSDL to take advantage of the new feature.
< 10:12:52 PM # more elsewhere > ~Universal Highness.mp3 - Universal Highness (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

well, got Radio moved over to the fresh machine, everything appears to be working.
< 9:56:36 PM # more elsewhere > Regiment - Brian Eno (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

Get the fun job of trying to move my Radio install soon. Anyone got any tips ?
< 7:33:14 PM # more elsewhere > ~02. Jet smooth.mp3 - 02. Jet Smooth (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

ok, a fresh set of Creative Labs drivers seems to have fixed that problem :)
< 7:32:24 PM # more elsewhere > ~02. Jet smooth.mp3 - 02. Jet Smooth (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

Upgrading a machine to XP, but it doesn't seem very happy, its blue screened 3 times in 10 minutes.
< 7:18:53 PM # more elsewhere > ~02. Jet smooth.mp3 - 02. Jet Smooth (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

Ahhh, I see, you can click through and see who's pulled the feed using Radio, makes more sense now. Hmmm So why not just have Radio send a referer header of the blog making the request ?
< 3:38:27 PM # more elsewhere > Shantel - Circle(Blue) (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

New Radio 8 feature: Web Bug Simulator. [Scripting News] OK, I must be missing something, how is this different to looking at the server log and seeing that the feed RSS file has been pulled X times ?
< 3:33:16 PM # more elsewhere > Jaffa - Sneakin' (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

I do most of my development work in an XP style, do the simplest thing that works, iterate & refactor to add functionality, I've been coding like this for a long time (certainly well before XP made it trendy). One problem is that this doesn't mesh to well with COM, particularly if you're trying to not break old interfaces, you end up with classes like

 coclass CoSerializerFactory
 {
  [default] interface ISerializerFactory;
  interface ISerializerFactoryConfig;
  interface ISerializerFactoryConfig2;
  interface ISerializerFactory2 ;
  interface ISerializerFactoryPool ;
  interface ISerializerFactoryPool2 ;
  interface ISerializerFactoryEx ;
 };

< 11:19:57 AM # more elsewhere > Coldcut - Last Night A Cliche Saved My Life (Featuring Grandmaster Flash & DJ

I see Keith is continuing the WSDL is love theme.
< 9:56:11 AM # more elsewhere > ~05. Rockskool.mp3 - 05. Rockskool (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])