September 2004 Entries
Certainly the Internet has been a fantastic boon for people like me who like to plan their own independent holidays. I spend quite a lot of time researching future trips as I imagine lots of people do.
I find that if you decide on when and where you want to go, it's not too hard. However, there's a huge gap in the market for something that helps you decide just where and when to go. Anything that attempts it usually lacks any credibility because they're just a channel for massive tour packages. It's an information rich domain that's crying out for a...
Nice collection of articles on security. Would be great to attend the conference.
Very slick calendaring product, website and service that publishes and subscribes to iCalendar files. These guys are on the ball and it's written in .NET too. The UI is clean and pretty but I've only just experiemented a little with it so that's just a first impression. I like the way it aggregates multiple calendars.
Unfortunately, it uses a publish/subscribe model which is fine for the Internet but it doesn't allow for shared editable calendars which is what I want. I've put in a feature request and have started looking at it with FileMon.
From reading their docs, I also found they've...
Interesting article in the Guardian about the holy grails of mathematics - also know has the "millenium problems". Worth $1 million if you solve one. These include:
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Poincaré conjecture
Navier-Stokes equation
P vs NP problem
Riemann hypothesis
Hodge conjecture
Yang-Mills and Mass gap
I've put together a list of Open Source .Net Projects that I find interesting in my wiki. Haven't found a comphrensive list anywhere on the net; there ought to be a list of the major projects around. Would also be nice if there was a central hangout for the .Net Open Source community. Does it need to be started?
I've been trying to make sense of the current state-of-play of calendar and event publishing standards. Two things have motiviated me to look at this.
1) I'm fed up of Outlook for holding events and appointments for the whole family. Outlook is meant for one person hosted in a corporate environment and just doesn't do the family scenario very well. It's viewing options are pretty restricted. For instance, in month view it munges Saturday and Sunday into one little box (like nothing happens on a weekend!) while weekdays get their own boxes. I'd like to find a new solution. Rather than...
Really nice presentation on using CSS....gotta get around to redesigning my websites soon.