DesignAndCode software development thoughts..

FxCop Code analysis tool has been getting harder to find,this has a link to find more info on it.

IntroductionToFunctionalProgramming.aspx which gets into new features in C# 3.5

Curry.aspx which speaks about "currying" and that is not the indian spice.

Found this posting about a YouTube API - which might be of interest.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/youtube-feeds.html

Interview article with Andrew Troelsen mentioned a cross platform library that is C# .Net compliant. It works with Native OS (Mac/Linux/Windows) and the footprint is very small compared to Java and others.

Using the .NET 2.0 IXMLSerializable - to capture the State of the class

I have not found the documentation on where the dasBlog site.config setting, of

<DisplayTimeZoneIndex>85</DisplayTimeZoneIndex>

came from - which is supposedly Grenich time, however, to make this show up with the Eastern Time zone correctly - it had to be set it to 40.

I was doing this before I started digging into how to use dasBlog - and found a timezone dropdown, in the configuration page, and then saw that 40 was Indiana -Eastern time -- so I fixed it from the drop down. 

Added the "Tag Cloud" - did a search through the themes and found the dasBlogger theme had it So, I borrowed the tags

<div id="box">
      <h3>Category TAGS</h3>
      <%drawTagCloud()%>
 </div>

Both the theme .css file, and the homeTemplate.blogtemplate had to be modified to incorporate the change.

A friend passes away on Jan 4, 2008.

Starting 2008 - with a new blog - and the experience on choosing the blog software.