Twitterlight has been updated with some new features that really up the usability of the app.

http://www.twitterlight.com

• Defaulted the view to Public, so non-Twitter users can see data on page load
• Added profile pics back in
• Added link to Twitter page on username
• Made some massive changes to how the app’s structure reorganizes:
• Moved to Grid wrapper to support dynamic resizing
• Removed C1 combobox due to bug (couldn’t locate parent canvas, as it’s now a grid)
• Added Erik Klimczak’s animating wrap panel to handle animating tweet movement between positions (He claimed a mERIKle on this one)
• On resize, tweets lose some opacity if they don’t cleanly fit on the screen… when resized back to larger size, tweets come back alive (disabled for Safari on Windows)
• Added a zoom slider, mostly for fun, but because sometimes you just need to see a profile picture a little better… or free up some real estate

This has become a work in progress, so let me know if you have features you’d like to see. Some are:

• Make password textbox actually a password textbox
• store tweet history for paging back through older tweets
• store username and/or pw
• Add reply/direct messaging shortcuts

thanks for the help on this, especially Josh Holmes for his suggestions.

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Lately I’ve really been listening to a lot of DotNetRocks podcasts, and in one program I heard mention of a great web site for .NET developers, SearchDotNet.com. I have heard this site described as a great tool probably unknown by those who need it most… this site was created by a .NET developer tired of trolling horrible sites for quality coding content… check it out and recommend a few of your favorite resource sites to keep this resource growing.

http://www.searchdotnet.com/default.aspx

Btw, I’m off to MIX 2007 tomorrow, I’ll post some of the more interesting things I learn throughout the day. I’m planning on OD’ing on WPF and Silverlight, some of the demos I’ve read about should really blow people away, like the 2008 Beijing Olympics app, and of course, those Clarity MEDC keynotes.

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Claiming for technorati… Technorati Profile

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A quick realtime update of Clarity’s 10th Tech Challenge, Clarity Tecmo Bowl:

Matchup 1: Khalid Smith (1) vs. Simon Hughes (8):

An early FG by 85 bears (ksmith), answered by 80 yd. TD pass by the newcomer Soccer Hooligans….turnovers abound as a major upset is in progress….another 90 yard bomb….amazing! The Englishman has stunned the world! Final: Soccer Hooligans 38, 85 Bears 3

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For the first time ever, uber-popular game show Jeopardy! is offering online testing, from March 28-30. Now you have the chance to take the application test without having to travel to an audition site…I’m fired up, I’ve wanted to be on this show since I was in California, but I never had the chance to head up to the auditions…carpe diem.

I’ll see you in Final Jeopardy! folks!

http://www.jeopardy.com/announcement_20060322NationalOnlineTest.php

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There’s an interesting debate occurring right now about the future of RSS and its accompanying terminology. This has been set off by the announcement that IE 7 Beta 1 supports RSS feeds (.9x, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0), with ATOM support to come. I for one think this is a nice new feature to add to a web browser, something that was long overdue for a technology that has been around for years. Microsoft is taking heat on this topic, mainly for three reasons:

- Firefox already supports feeds as ‘Live Bookmarks’, and some see MS as ‘borrowing’ the technology.

- Naming standards have the bloggers up in arms. IE 7 is loosely set to use the term ‘Web feeds’. Dave Winer, father of RSS, and others feel this is an insult to the technology they pioneered, and feel that the machine is simply creating a new term to send to market. Supporters argue that since ATOM will be supported as well, “RSS Feeds” is not an approprate term, as the technologies differ. A lively comment log is building here about the naming standard.

- Posts are accumlating about how we shouldn’t be impressed,as this is XSLT transformation being spun into a slick new item. I disagree,but sometimes people like to point out that they weren’t fooled. So what? If it makes something easier for one person, isn’t that an improvement? Microsoft is not claiming they invented this technology, and I’m sure its effect will be predictable, if not desired: Techies will revolt against, or more likely, ignore the new feature, but it will bring casual internet users face to face with a nice method of keeping up on blogs and news articles. As a programmer, I sometimes have to place myself in the shoes of my mother, (I got them on sale ), and think like she would when trying some new gadget or software. She would NEVER give an aggregator the time of day, and has no interest in keeping up with the latest articles on her top 10 websites, like we would. She would, however, like to be able to click a button and see the latest information neatly displayed within her browser.

I’m looking forward to seeing just how well IE 7 is received, it should be interesting. For now, the debate rages on….

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