Jesse is working on a bug tracking system in 100% managed code. Scott has posted an awesome article on the Myth of .NET Purity. Given that I agree with Scott, you might think I’d disagree with Jesse avoiding other system on the basis that they “aren’t .NET based”. However, Jesse isn’t just building a stand alone system – it’s integrated with VS.NET. Also, the way you can build bug tracking directly into your production app is very cool. I wonder if Jesse is inspired at all by “Production Debugging for .NET Applications“.

I’m interested in Jesse’s system because of these features. The whole 100% managed code thing is nice, but as an end user of the system, I just want it to work.

Jesse – you’re building in support for web services as well, right?

GDN being down is usually just annoying. Now, it’s keeping me from Adam’s CLRSpy. I hear it’s awesome. Damn!

Sam and Don are arranging another Crossroads blogger get-together on the 21st. Enjoyed the last time, but will have to give this one a miss. 21st is my birthday and I hear that my son Patrick has big plans.

I’ve posted an update to my SharePoint RSS Feed Generator (which I now abbreviate WSS RSS). New features of v0.3 are support for OPML and support for feed configuration. Now, the admin can specify which top level sites, which subwebs and which lists are included in the RSS or OPML feeds. I’ve also done a bunch of structural stuff – no more need to edit web.config files. I’ve also produced separate binary and source archives, which is much easier if you just want to install the bits rather than play with the code.

I also modified the RSS feed to support Don’s RSS 2.0 Profile (profile link might be wrong, GDN is down). Here is the OPML profile that I am using in WSS RSS:

/outline/@type

• mandatory – xsd:string
• must equal “rss”

/outline/@title

• mandatory if no description, optional otherwise – xsd:string (no embedded markup)
• title of the RSS feed (i.e. same as /item/title in RSS)

/outline/@description

• mandatory if no title, optional otherwise – xsd:string (no embedded markup)
• description of the RSS feed (i.e. same as /item/description in RSS)

/outline/@xmlUrl

• mandatory – xsd:anyURI (SHOULD be absolute)
• url of RSS feed

/outline/@htmlUrl

• mandatory – xsd:anyURI (SHOULD be absolute)
• Url of HTML page

Lutz Roeder has updated Reflector for .NET and Fabrice Marguerie has moved the list of .NET tools to SharpToolbox. I’ve updated my links.