Monthly Archives: October 2009

Hulu to Start Charging, Viewers to Stop Watching

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Michael Koby

Earlier today, news made the rounds that Hulu, an online television show streaming website, will begin charging for their service in 2010 (EW Article). Continue reading →

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TwitterNET Project: A .NET Twitter Library

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Michael Koby

Over the weekend, I finally finished a large chunk of wrapping the Twitter API into a .NET 3.5 library using C#. With the exception of the OAuth & Search methods, this most of the REST methods are complete (only 3 are not done at this time but should be done soon). The project is located on Github by clicking here. Continue reading →

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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source & Misses the Point a Little

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Michael Koby

There was big news in the Java world this week. JetBrains released their popular IntelliJ IDEA as an open source community edition. While, this has been heralded as a great move (and to some extent I agree with that), I feel that JetBrains kind of missed the point a little. Before I go any further, you should look at the Edition Comparison Chart.

If you look at the chart, you’ll notice that some of the features they need t Continue reading →

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C# Partial Keyword

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Michael Koby

This is where the partial keyword comes into play. I can organize my methods so that related methods are in their own files but are still accessible in the same class. This came in real handy in my Twitter library (linked above). Continue reading →

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