Author Archives: Steven van Dijk

This blog has been languishing lately, and I don’t foresee much improvement soon. So just a few quick points to say what’s going on: Crescendo has been shelved for now. I actually did some more work on it since the … Continue reading →

It just doesn’t get any easier than this: Dropdo provides one big button that lets you pick a file on your file system. After uploading you have a URL that you can send to your friends. If they visit that … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to proceed with Crescendo. I have had some misgivings lately about how it turned out so far: Firstly, the installation is too cumbersome if not all prerequisites are already installed. It … Continue reading →

I passed the 70-536 exam last Monday. The reason this blog hasn’t had an update since August was that I can only do one thing at a time and I was studying in my free time. Theoretically I could also … Continue reading →

Since there are now two transports available in Crescendo (AnyHub and bittorrent), it has become confusing to understand what happens when content is downloaded. To solve this a logo is displayed next to the row of content like this: The … Continue reading →

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It is done. I implemented the torrent transport for Crescendo so if you’ve got uTorrent installed you use it in Crescendo. How does this work again? In Crescendo, there exist so-called content types. A content type specifies certain characteristics for … Continue reading →

It turns out that my statement in the previous post that it was too hard to interface with uTorrent was a bit silly. I have become so used to processes that connect with each other through some kind of remoting … Continue reading →

As was described earlier, Crescendo is a content-sharing platform. It is different from file-sharing networks in that it uses them but is not itself in the business of moving bits and bytes around. Other content-sharing platforms one may be familiar … Continue reading →