Writing A Book
K. Scott Allen, famous for his OdeToCode blog signed on to be the fourth co-author. His expertise and writing ability will help to compensate for our lack of such things.
Read MoreTradeoffs When Minimizing The Impact Of Changes
In a recent post I talked about how good design attempts to minimize
the impact of
changes
to a system, often through Design Patterns.
Register Custom Controls In Web.config
This one is probably old news to many of you, but I just recently ran across it. Every time I want to add a new control to a new page, I get annoyed because I have to remember that annoying syntax for registering a control.
Read MoreGood Design Minimizes The Impact Of Changes
We’ve all been there. Your project stakeholder stands in your doorway
with a coffee mug in hand and asks for one more teeny tiny change.
Subtext User Survey
I put up a
short three question
survey
on the Subtext
website. If you are a subtext user or thinking about using Subtext,
please take a moment and fill it out. It’ll only take a second.
Email To Weblog
Telligent, the hyper-caffeinated people behind Community Server, have just released their latest online service, blogmailr. This service allows you to post to your blog via email.
Read MoreCommerce Starter Kit 2.0 Released
Rob Conery just announced the 2.0 release of the Commerce Starter Kit. If you are planning to build a commerce site, it is well worth checking out as it is a full featured modular application built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and Subsonic.
Read MoreWorld Domination Phase 1 Commenced
Total world domination has always been a small goal of mine. It’s not
that I have an unquenchable thirst for power, it just sounds like a
challenging goal and I love challenges.
Seriously Cool Jobs Available
I have a few great openings available that I have to share with you. These are really great positions working with really interesting and smart people all over the world.
Read MoreExcellence Awards
A while ago I mentioned that my company, in collaboration with Shepard Associates built two websites for a medical device company using DotNetNuke (aka DNN).
Read MoreHappy Halloween
I love Halloween because it makes for great parties. What makes a party great? Costumes! This past weekend I drove up from Los Angeles to San Jose to stay with my friend Kyle and his wife Cara. That evening we drove up to San Francisco to attend a house party in a large four story house in the hills. It was about the perfect size for the 100+ people in attendance, and they hade a few top-notch local DJs spinning.
Read MoreCAPTCHA For Trackbacks
Jeff Atwood points out several problems with using blacklists (specifically Akismet) to prevent comment spam. He makes the following point:
Read MoreAnother Subtext 1.9.2 Upgrade Bug
Steve Harman points out another bug in the upgrade process. I feel really terrible that this one slipped through, though as far as I can tell so far, it may be mostly cosmetic in its effect. It apparently converts some comments to trackbacks. While this is not desirable behavior, since we show both comments and trackbacks in the comment section, it might not have a huge negative effect.
Read MoreWhat Feature Should Be Removed?
In the essay entitled Hold the Mayo, 37signals points out the obvious fact that most surveys ask users what features they want added to a product. They rarely ask what features they want removed.
Read MoreInsomniac Thought Of The Evening
Actually yes,
I would like a little cheese with that whine.
Getting Real
Now that 37signals have put their
book Getting Real online for
free,
I’ve finally gotten around to start reading it. And so far, I **love
it. I think there are a lot of great lessons, reminders, ideas in here
that will help me make products I work on that much better.
What Do You Do If You Find A Wallet?
Well if you’re the punk malcontent who found my wallet yesterday, you go
on a shopping spree…at Rite Aid, Vons, and Ralphs (a convenience store
and two grocery stores).
Subtext 1.9.2 Bugfix Update
As I mentioned in my last post, someone reported a bug with deleting posts in the admin tool. That posts also describes a quick and dirty workaround.
Read MorePATCH: Cannot Delete Posts In Subtext 1.9.2
Someone reported that they cannot delete posts in the just released Subtext 1.9.2. I am mortified that we do do not have a unit test for this function! To our defense, we did start with 0% code coverage in unit tests and have now reached 37.9% and rising!
Read MoreSubtext 1.9.2 "Shields Up" Edition Released!
Read MoreMaking the world safe for trackbacks again!