Making the world safe for trackbacks again!

Dan Appleman takes the .NET focused custom search engine idea one step further by grabbing a great domain name for his search engine.  Now why didn’t I think of that!  Sometimes that’s all it takes between a search engine that will get used alot (his) and one that won’t (mine).  I’d be happy to throw my support over to his, though I’m keeping my baby.  The one key difference is I plan to leave my search engine open for others to contribute sites.  Perhaps the two will complement each other.

Having trouble sleeping lately. Thought I’d start an intermittent blog series about the questions that keep me up at night.

UPDATE: A bug was reported that blog posts could not be deleted. We have updated the release files with a fixed version.  There’s also a quick and dirty workaround.

In response to question about integrating my custom search engine with the browser, Oran left a comment with a link to a post on how to implement searching your FogBugz database in your browser via the OpenSearch provider, which is supported by Firefox 2.0 and IE7.

Last night I went to the “World Famous Viper Room”.  Gotta respect that their website makes sure to mention the World Famous part.  I suppose you’d have to have a real club inferiority complex to promote your club as The In This Neighborhood Sorta Famous Viper Room.

Google just launched a neat build-your-own-search-engine feature.  You can choose sites that should be emphasized in the search results, or even restrict search results to that list.

Here’s a little trick that I didn’t know about till Steve told me about it.  So that’s what those other tabs in the Remote Destkop dialog are for!

Jeff Atwood writes a great post about The Last Responsible Moment. Take a second to read it and come back here. I’ll wait.

Dave (a Subtext developer) just blogged about a project template he created for creating Atlas applications using the Web Application Project (WAP).  This is wicked useful for those of us who prefer Web Application Projects over Web Site Projects.

When I was a bright eyed bushy tailed senior in college, I remember wading through pages and pages of job ads in Jobtrak (which has since been absorbed into Monster.com).

In a recent post I ranted about how ASP.NET denies WebPermission in Medium Trust. I also mentioned that there may be some legitimate reasons to deny this permission based on this hosting guide.

Tyler, an old friend and an outstanding contractor for VelocIT recently wrote a post suggesting one would receive better performance by passing in an array of objects to the Microsoft Data Application Block methods rather than passing in an array of SqlParameter instances. He cited this article.

This is a bit of rant born out of some frustrations I have with ASP.NET. When setting the trust level of an ASP.NET site, you have the following options:

Steve Harman finds this gem of a site that generates interesting statistics and graphs for an open source website.  Just point it to your code repository and let it go!

For a project I worked on, we had an automated build server running CruiseControl.NET hosted in a virtual machine.  We did the same thing for Subtext (project is dead). 

Just upgraded my blog to the latest version of Subtext in the Subversion 1.9 branch, not that you needed to know that. I just appreciate you letting me know if you run into problems leaving a comment and such by using my Contact page.

Weird how coding on Subtext relaxes me. For the past couple days I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and getting worse.  The weird part is that anytime I try and eat something, there’s a terrible after-taste. And no, it’s not my breathe.  I couldn’t finish my pizza tonight.  Pizza!

Quick tip for you if you need to remotely connect to a server with VMWare Server installed in order to manage the virtual server. 

Recently I wrote a .NET based Akismet API component for Subtext.  In attempting to make as clean as interface as possible, I made the the type of the property to store the commenter’s IP address of type IPAddress.