Rendezvous for PC

on 08.02.03, 08:05am in windows • comments (0)

[PostNeo] Now the rest of us who have been hearing about the MacOS X Rendezvous Bonanza have a chance to get in on the action. The folks at Swampwolf have produced howl an open source Rendezvous/ZeroConf library that works on Windows and Linux. They’ve release the source on SourceForge under the BSD license.

Couple of thoughts:

  • Last year I spent a week or so starting to port Rendezvous to C#. I got pretty far actually (the listener was working even) but dropped it just because I had other things going on. I’m really thinking of just writing a managed wrapper around howl.

  • Pocket PC. Imagine the ability to “pick up” other wireless pda’s, phones, etc., around you. To me the PDA is (again) the killer application for this type of technology.

  • Media Center. Would be the cooooolest to have this up and running on a Media Center PC. Imagine someday, you could walk into a room with a digital camera, and you would just “upload” pictures to the nearest media center.

    • Under the hood, Rendezvous is pretty straightforward - it’s simply multicast DNS. Hmm. Perhaps it’s worthwhile to pick up the pure C# version again, and port it over to the Compact Framework.

    Sometimes I wish there were 45 hours a day just so i’d have time for the extracurricular projects.

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