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Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)

alexbarnett — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:11:00 GMT

As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria:

Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows Live Services via AtomPub
Fri, March 7th - Building RESTful Real World Applications with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework

Live Search OPML Generator

alexbarnett — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:06:00 GMT

Andy Edmonds has posted about the all new Live Search OPML Generator...

"What does it do?: This app runs your query against the Live Search API with the feed: syntax, returning RSS feeds, and assembles an OPML file. You'll get the chance to choose from the results before generating the subscription list."

As an example, here's the search results on the query "ADO.NET". Some great feeds come back: The ADO.NET team blog feed, David Hayden's blog posts as a feed with category 'ADO.NET', Sahil Malik's feed that includes a number of ADO.NET posts, the ADO.NET Technology Preview MSDN Forum feed and plenty more.

What's great is that once you've decided which feeds you want to subscribe to, you select those and an OPML file is generated for you to wack into your feedreader. Alternatively, you could select all, then add the OPML file to your reader and then delete those that you don't want to keep. Or just add them as feeds to read within the Live.com reader.

Another nice thing Andy has pointed out is the potential to create Reading Lists from a search query.

The Future of XML

admin — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:16:00 GMT

Mr Scoble got talking with Sun Microsystem's Tim Bray, a co-creator of the XML spec. I've not listened yet, but this interview sounds too good to miss:

"Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators of the XML spec back in the mid 1990s and in this audio interview he and I talk about the state of XML and get his views on what the future holds for XML and other derivative formats like RSS and Atom."