Woohoo! I've installed the February CTP of Avalon (I'm sure you can get info about it from www.learnwpf.com if you need it) and it appears that the black window problem of past CTPs is finally gone. This means I no longer have to run all my Avalon apps in debug mode just to see the output. This is one small step... yada yada yada.

Joseph has just announced the launch of LearnWPF, a Hawthorn styled community site for Avalon (ok, ok... WPF). I'm looking forward to seeing what nuggets of information come out of here. From the looks of things there's gold in them there hills.

I've just finished writing a paper, which explains why Slashdot has made it back into my url history (procrastination has to be pretty bad to get me to slashdot, unless I'm looking for a laugh). But in this case Slashdot has really come up with the goods. FeedTree is an excellent idea. I'd had a few ideas about using Scribe for distributing RSS more efficiently but never got around to thinking it through fully.

FeedTree seems to have come up with a great idea and followed it through with a client which is basically transparent! It took me a bit to get it running at home because it wanted to connect to the net through my pocket pc, but once I got past that it seems to be working well. It could probably do with a bit more doco in places but I'm sure that'll come if it becomes popular.

Finally, if you want a good laugh go read the slashdot comments (as usual). FeedTree seems to have provided the most ill-informed comments I've ever read on slashdot, but perhaps that's just because I have a good understanding of Pastry thanks to my PhD. Now there's a new 2nd best Pastry based application behind G2:P2P (hmmm. I should get a link to the AusGrid paper up on that site, hey)