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Here is the only link you’ll need.

If you need more info, you’ll find it, kinda like Coyote Ugly, just much less drama.

Interesting read.

Version 1.9.4 of the Subtext blogging system was just released! More details here.
This is primarily a bug fix release, lots of hard work is going on with 2.0. One of the great new features of 1.9.4 is the sitemap functionality work done by David Vidmar from Slovenia. Great work David!

You can grab the bits, as usual from the Sourceforge.net site here. Keep on blogging!

And again I hang my head in shame, using Wordpress but still working on Subtext….. Anyone got some ASP.NET hosting space for me?

I can’t believe tomorrow is the last day of the year.  Christmas has come and gone and all is set for 2007.  My family and some friends went to a pub on Christmas Day for lunch.  Lots of fun, photos at the link below.

I love graphical representation of data. Back in the day, I did my thesis on the graphical representation of intrusion detection systems’ output to manage threats effectively. I was even published in a book. But enough of that self back scratching, lets talk WPF.

Yes, WPF. Windows Presentation Foundation. A wonderful new technology from Microsoft that really pushes the envelope of desktop GUIs. I think WPF needs a blog post on its own, so I’ll do that this week and give some cool demos that are out there on the interwebs. I’ve been playing around with it last week and built a very basic RSS reader with some cool visual effects quickly and surprisingly easy. There is a great article here on how to get your machine kitted out for developing a WPF app. Give it a shot.

But the main focus today is an application built by the friendly people at Dot Net Solutions. Disclaimer: I am an employee. Using WPF as the backbone, we’ve come up with a great way of experiencing the Wikipedia world without leaving your desktop. Dubbed Wikipedia Explorer, this application allows you to navigate around Wikipedia in ways that really show the inner links of Wikipedia.

Using the different views available, such as the Network view, a graph is built up on how articles are linked together. Its awesome! The 3DExplorer view allows you to see in a 3 dimensional view the articles linked in a page but the Network view blows you away. Give it a try, its been stitched together using ClickOnce so you’re always up to date.

Links:
A blog post on the Dot Net Solutions Blog.
The case study page I wrote.
Download!
.NET 3.0 is also required.

Well done Wordpress.com, I appreciate you taking a stand.  Have a look here at what they are doing with users that use Payperpost.

Well done!

This is huge!  Lets hope the UK gets this too.  Clicky