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April 06, 2003
RSS readers, and the draw of .Net
Another day, another RSS reader.
Recently downloaded:
Sharpreader
Harvester
Rssbandit
Syndirella
Of course, most exploration is hampered by the fact that Newz Crawler doesn't export subscriptions in a friendly format. Rule #1 of evaluating software: make sure you have an exit strategy.
What is interesting about these is that they're all developed using .Net Development Framework. It's something that I've tried to avoid - a 20Mb download for a start, and the installation went horribly wrong for me. What changed my mind? Most of these apps were developed in a weekend or two. It seems to be a really really quick development environment. Code reuse seems similar (in speed and functionality) to Perl, which is a real plus.
Reading the blogs of the people who built all of these, it also struck me that .Net has a real developer community (carefully cultivated by MS, with minimal branding). This is incredibly important - it's something that pushes a language to the top of the league. I feel Java never really had any buzz, any hackers writing for the fun of it. C# seems to have momentum.
I'm torn. I was going to learn PersonalJava for the P800, but I think that to access most of the nice features of the phone, you have to program in C++. I'm really not much of a programmer - I learn enough to get my idea made flesh - and the idea of learning two or three new languages (the first for 5+ years) is daunting. But there's a real reason to: connected apps on my phone, and real quick desktop programs on the desktop.
And some Perl on a server somewhere to bind it all together ;)
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