I continue to be impressed with all the great software that JetBrains puts out. Last year as I was working on a Java project I was looking around for a good Java IDE. Everyone, and I really mean everyone said to checkout IntelliJ. I actually ended up using NetBeans/Eclipse on the project but the little time I had to experiment with IntelliJ was very positive.
Fast forward to the 1.0 release of ReSharper. I don’t think I need to say more. If you think I do just go try out ReSharper and you’ll see why I’d rather be programming in VS.NET 2003 with ReSharper then in Whidbey with no ReSharper. It’s an awesome tool.
As I pointed out in my last post I recently began experimenting with Rss client apps again. For the past several months I’ve been reading feeds using the Newsgator Online which overall has worked out pretty well, however, I miss the rich experience of a rich client. I recently found out that FeedDemon had support for Bloglines and Newsgator so I decided to give it a try. It was very nice. I didn’t want to hop on the FeedDemon bandwagon too fast though so I decided to give Omea a try from JetBrains. After a little bit of time playing with the software I wanted it to become my RSS Reader. Unfortunetly it didn’t have Bloglines or Newsgator integration.
It does however have a pretty nice plugin architecture that allows you to write your own plugins. The latest “ Tokaj” build had included as part of the install a sample plugin that imports feeds from Bloglines. At first it sounded like it was exactly what I wanted. Unfortunetly the plugin wasn’t importing the bloglines feed that would allow me to keep my feeds pseudo sync’d between machines, it was using the real RSS feed. I quickly launched VS.NET and opened the Bloglines plugin source code that was provided. I was able to relatively quickly update the plugin to use the Bloglines feed url, rather then the real feed. This give me the sync I’ve been wanting. It’s not perfect since when I update a feed it marks all feeds as read on bloglines, but, it’s just as good as FeedDemon. And instead of just getting an RSS Reader I also get all the other cool stuff in Omea.