I knew this day would be coming... exactly one month after the release of SharpReader, Dare reports he borrowed (stole?;-) the threading idea from SharpReader and implemented it in RssBandit. Unfortunately 25hoursaday.com seems to be down right now so I cannot see the screenshot yet; I'll have to try again tomorrow... I wonder how much longer it will take for other aggregators to also copy this feature...
Dare also writes he wants to implement "a plugin architecture which at a minimum should include Simon Fell's BlogThis proposal". I hope any extensions to BlogThis he is considering can be folded into the proposed standard, along with some of Greg's suggestions. Given Dare's employer though, he might just choose to simply "embrace and extend" ;-)
Luke,
I just emailed you the screenshot. The code for RSS Bandit is all on GotDotNet and the backend code that supports this feature is part of the RssComponents workspace. I'm not really working much on the GUI anymore and this is really Torsten's ballpark while I just do the backend XML related stuff. He wants a sophisticated plugin architecture with several interfaces and a servce provider model while I also want to support the simple IBlogThis proposal. What Torsten has shown me so far is very different from the direction you guys have gone with IBlogThis and I expect him to blog about it soon although you can email him if you're curious.
silly to feel that you have some sort of monopoly on features that are obvious additions to a particular category of software. what a whiner! I INVENTED IT!!!! I MADE IT!!!! I THOUGHT IT UP!!!! Be the best by inoovating harder and faster than the others and put more effort into writing code than whining about the fact that other people are developing software better than yours.
Posted by dude at May 9, 2003 6:15 PMsilly to feel that you have some sort of monopoly on features that are obvious additions to a particular category of software. what a whiner! I INVENTED IT!!!! I MADE IT!!!! I THOUGHT IT UP!!!! Be the best by inoovating harder and faster than the others and put more effort into writing code than whining about the fact that other people are developing software better than yours. I can hear your high pitched whining from across the world. Do some real innovation and patent it or shaddap.
Posted by guest at May 9, 2003 6:17 PMSilly that you feel justified enough to criticize me, yet cowardly enough to hide behind a fake url.
Posted by Luke Hutteman at May 9, 2003 10:24 PMDo you remember when people in general seemed to have a sense of humor? Life was a lot more fun then.
The double post was a nice touch, though. Now get back to inoovating, or I'll have to try again to install RSS Bandit and send all my bug reports and feature requests to Dare instead.
Posted by Phil Ringnalda at May 9, 2003 11:21 PMSense of humor? Damnit Phil, I'm a programmer, not a standup comedian!
And now that you've pointed out the typo, I'm sure we can expect a third flame from somebody with the typo corrected.
Thanks a lot, Phil!
;-)
Posted by Luke Hutteman at May 10, 2003 12:32 AMYou have probably also half convinced yourself that you invented the RSS reader. Maybe you have convinced yourself that you invented the idea of developing an RSS reader using C#
Everyones copying me! Everyones stealing my idea! I thought of using C# to develop an RSS reader and now everyone has stolen my hard work, original thinking and innovation! I'm angry! I'm hard done by! I'm smarter than everyone and they just take my ideas! It's the big bad Bill Gates stealing from the innovative little guy! Someone's stolen my idea of using C# to develop Sharpreader! I've been ROBBED! Loser.
Posted by guest at May 10, 2003 4:21 AMLuke,
Are you sure threading is really your idea? If so, the WG for the Threading module for RSS 1.0 stole the idea already in 2000 :)
http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/threading/
Implementation of an idea is another thing, of course.
The whole RSS concept is rather new anyway isn't it? Who did you steal the idea from to write an RSS reader? Why didn't you leave writing RSS readers to the first one ever written?
And yes, do you REALLY think you invented threading? Embarrassing whiner.
Posted by guest at May 10, 2003 4:38 AMI never claimed I invented threading. Damn, my usenet reader has had it for ages. I was just the first one to implement it in an RSS Aggregator, that's all.
Like Phil said, get a sense of humor. In this world, everybody copies features. SharpReader started of as a clone of FeedReader, which itself borrowed heavily from outlook. It's just nice to see other aggregators now copying one of my features. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I'd like to see what my uninvited "guest" ever did that was worth copying. Flaming people is hardly original, nor is hiding behind a fake url. Get a life, loser.
Posted by Luke Hutteman at May 10, 2003 1:53 PM