Coding Day

Bloglines is still the only reader that provides an “official API” to make use of their services. I was working on a syndication application and decided to share the .NET Bloglines library that I wrote to use their web services.
Requirements

.NET 3.5 Framework

Quick Reference

public Bloglines(string username, string password)    Member of CodingDay.Bloglines

Default constructor, password is optional […]

I really liked the XML expressiveness of Visual Basic, let’s build a very simple MSN History Search Engine using LINQ and XML Literals in Visual Basic.
The best thing is those literals could be used in LINQ expressions. Remember the simple XML file that MSN stores as a history.

.@AttributeName : Accesses the attribute element in XML
.<ElementName> […]

I usually don’t use Wordpress’ “write post” page to write blog entries unless I am using linux. Although there are some web clients as well, it is not better than wordpress’ post screen. I was using Windows Live Writer but nowadays I have switched to Word 2007 to post blogs. First of all, Word 2007 […]

Yahoo! Pipes is a great idea implemented by Yahoo! with an incredibly amazing user interface. When I first played with I just shocked and suspected about flashy stuff. However it is based on only Javascript with the help of Yahoo’s great Yahoo! User Interface Library on the back-end.
The idea is simple to explain if […]

My windows became unbootable, I was receiving and I logged to my linux partition. I was looking for the bootdisks for my flash drive because I don’t have an XP cd (Laptop gave only the ghost image of Windows CD), I needed to have chkdsk command at least, so I googled for “windows […]

 
Google has released a new cosmetic look to Google Reader last week. Firstly I was very impressed because it  started to look like Bloglines and the interface is more responsive by the usage of AJAX. I tried almost a week and I decided that I am content with Bloglines and continue to read my feeds with […]

Google announced and released their code search engine in Google Code blog. It crawls and indexes for the program file types and also some compressed file types. Unlike the succesful results in the web query I just couldn’t find the things I want. So apparently their page rank algorithm won’t work there. Anyway it is just […]

I am surprised when looking at the Google Desktop Search’s folder (mine -> C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search). The search company found an interesting way to make the users read. 12 files are used to describe the action that you shouldn’t be done on this folder. One more interesting thing is that this is readable […]

I was surfing, and found that brilliant search engine. Hakia

According to its features It has a new algorithm for the searching called MAQ. The results looks relevant served with a simple user interface. It is worth a try. Below is the quotes..

MAQ versus Indexing
hakia’s designers broke from decades-old indexing method and built a much […]