On Monday between 19:00 and 21:00 I’m going to a Bing roundtable (round table) in London. The event is being organise by Colin Mercer and is described as:
a small round-table event to discuss Bing and since we saw your recent tweet regarding comparative search results between Bing and Google, we thought that you might be interested in coming along. The idea would be to get your initial thoughts and you’ll get an update on the future steps for Bing which are being developed specifically for the UK. During the session you’ll have the chance to talk with Microsoft representatives and other people from social media like yourself, who have expressed some early opinion.
It would appear the event is being attended by a number of web 2.0, social media, marketing and internet types.
- Phil Bradley
- Phil is interested in
Internet searching, Web 2.0 resources, search engines and their development.
Phil has confirmed. I recommend following Phil Bradley on Twitter.
- James Barlow
- James Barlow is
an independent consultant specialising in information technology and project/programme management.
- Tom Warren
- I don’t have any additional information on Tom.
- Chris Hambly
- Chris lists himself as a
successful Digital Media Entrepreneur
- Josh Russell
- Josh has tweeted that he’s going. He provides
micro-consulting on web application strategy
- David Stuart
- David is going. David blog provides
thoughts of a Web 2.0 research fellow on all things in the technological sphere that capture his interest.
- Karen Blakeman
- Karen’s blogs about
search tools, Internet technologies and resources for business information.
Karen has confirmed.
- Neil Robinson
- Neil describes himself as
passionate about using the right technology to drive business forward.
- Kevin Harrington
- Looks like Kevin had some initial trouble confirming his attendance but I think he’s coming now.
- Mark Sharp
- Mark designs and runs
a number of websites for myself and for other people and organisations
- Andrea Giammarchi
- Andrea’s profile says
JavaScript Ninja and both PHP/ECMAScript Certified Engineer
We are being encouraged to “live blog” the event.
Please come armed with all of your thoughts, opinions and questions for the Bing team. This meet-up is about everyone getting the chance to have their say. We’ll make sure you’re able to live blog during the event
So, I’ll be armed with my laptop (for tweeting) and HTC Touch Pro (for video, if appropriate) and will try and ask as many questions as possible and get as much information out to the real-time web as I can. My personal angle will be one of technology. For example:
- How Bing are pushing use of the Bing API and Bing developer centre.
- What are they doing to ensure information is available to the real-time web as quickly as possible.
Please let me know if you have any questions that you’d like asked and I’ll do my best to ask them. You can do this in a number of ways. During the event the hashtag in use will be #meetbing. Prior to the event I’d suggest people maybe use #askbing. Failing that you can contact me directly or leave a comment on this blog post.
About a week ago I wrote a blog article at work entitled “What is the real-time web?“. I’m seeing even more tweets and posts about the real-time web and I’d love to hear if other people agree with my opinion on what the real-time web is.
View the What is the real-time web? article here.
I’ve had one of those days. I set out early this morning aware that I had a tough task ahead of me at work. By the end of the day I’ve made very little progress.
The silly thing is that I know exactly what mistakes I’ve made today that have hindered my progress and what’s worse, I’ve made the same mistakes before.
I think that Live Mesh will be really useful. I think it provides great benefit to individual users, such as myself, and has great potential to be used by software solution developers. I’m presently using it to synchronise some files that I want to backup and be available wherever I am.
I originally had a lot of web files being synchronised, around 700MB, but the synchronisation was taking ages and killing my CPU. CPU was sitting at 100% and there was no sign of things completing. I think it was having a problem with the volume of small files.
To summarise: it’s a great product with bags of potential but something needs to be done to reduce the CPU usage when dealing with the synchronisation of a large volume of small files.
To make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2 really isn’t that tough. I did have some problems with RC0 but I have no idea why. I just tried writing a little app to do this and it worked straight away.
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As I was cleaning up the contents of my desktop I came across a text file containing a list of links to .NET obfuscator offerings. I created this list when researching options about six months ago. The main criteria was that the obfuscator could be executed as part of an automated build process.
Here’s the contents of the list:
I was awoken on the first day of my holiday to a clattering sound and my girlfriend exclaiming “I can’t get the top drawer open”. I turned over and looked at the clock. It read 05:50! Something within the drawer has risen high enough so that when you try to open it it catches and the drawer can’t open.
I then had to spend 30 minutes taking the whole set of drawers apart with a screwdriver to get this drawer open. I don’t know how many times I’ve come across this same problem but still the design of drawers, and more to the point their casing, stays the same. The drawer cavity always has space above the actual drawer to allow things within the drawer to move into this space and then catch when you try and open the drawer.
My point here is that this has proven time and time again to be bad design with flaws yet this design does not change. The same problem can be seen in other engineering designs including software.
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Liberator FE
I work for Caplin Systems who have recently released Liberator FE which is the Free Edition of their real time Comet server product.
Liberator is the most performant and fully-featured server currently available for streaming real-time data to web pages. The technology behind many of the world’s leading financial trading portals, it is now available FREE for evaluation and non-commercial use.
In this post I will detail my experiences when installing Liberator FE on Windows with an aim to being able to create a RIA Client that consumes data from a Capin DataSource.
Liberator Free Edition comes with a comprehensive client library for integrating with Ajax or Flex, RIAs, a Java server library for connecting to sources of data and building application logic, and full documentation.
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I’ve been aware of Microsoft’s documentation generation system called Sandcastle for a while now but only recently have I had a chance to use it.
With NDoc all but dead (see NDoc 2.0 Alpha) Sandcastle is now one of very few free alternatives that I could find to generate documentation from my coding comments. However, it did take a bit of searching and playing around to get things working.
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With the reasonable success of Bring Back Beckham! I decided to push forward with my next project. The idea behind England Goals was to create a site that lists all the goals scored by the England football team and use the increase in the number of goals that can be found on external video sites to my advantage by embedding these user uploaded videos as content.
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