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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

PageFlakes

I was digging around atlas.asp.net today and looked at one of their Showcases called Pageflakes. Cool entry in the start-page space.

I've been using Sage to handle my RSS needs, but it doesn't stay in sync between home and my two offices, never mind my laptop. So, I've migrated all my feed needs to Pageflakes to see how well it fills my needs.

Of course I couldn't just use a new tool. I had to figure out how to expand on it. First i just created a web page flake and pointed it at one of my webapps. Kinda the lotek way to get an app onto the grid. I figured there had to be a way to create proper flakes and clicking on the Developers link I was rewarded with step-by-step instructions on how to create custom flakes. Very cool.

What I really need to make this my main page is a way to sync my Palm Desktop to its address book and To do list. Now that would be useful.

ThreadSingleton revisited

I've been using the CallContext for a while now to create thread singletons, especially under ASP.NET since it's a single process and you need to work in a thread context when dealing with per request singletons.

Today a co-worker pointed out this post. Apparently you can't trust CallContext under ASP.NET. You really should stuff your singletons into HttpContext when running under ASP.NET, just to be sure. It's a good read.