Calling Dibs On Blogging
I love working with other developers who are really excited about technology and the work we are doing. As is characteristic of such an organization, there is a constant flurry of IM messages and emails with links to interesting new technologies and topics.
Read MoreCoComment Now Enabled
Subtext Reaches A Thousand
Steve Harman reports that Subtext reached 1000 downloads just recently on SourceForge.
Read MoreDevelopment Abstraction Layer
Joel Spolsky totally nails it this time with his article on the Developer Abstraction Layer. This is one of his better articles. It is a tad on the long side, but well worth the read. Try to get it in your manager’s hands.
Read MoreApologies For The Duplicate Posts
If you are seeing duplicate posts from my blog in your feed aggregator,
my apologies. I am dogfooding the latest development version of Subtext
straight from the Subversion repository. Unfortunately, my unit tests
did not catch the fact that I changed the link
and guid
elements
from fully qualified to virtual URLs.
Rainbow Portal Looks To Implement Subtext For Blogging
Eric Ramseur who works on the Rainbow 2.0 Portal project looks like he has made progress inimplementing Subtext as the blogging module for Rainbow. That is pretty sweet.
Read MoreOne Red Paperclip
This is one of the most ingenious methods of self promotion I have ever seen. Not to mention an interesting way to obtain a house.
Read MoreSwinging With The Big Boys
Jayson emailed me to let me know that my PageRank is now
- That puts me up in the ranks of the big guys like Scott Hanselman. Woohoo!
Stop The Window.Onload Madness
There are a lot
cool
javascript
libraries
floating around the Intarweb these days that add cool behavior to web
pages. My favorites are the ones that you simply add to the head
section of your website and control via
markup.
It is a great way to enhance structural html markup with
Javascript.
Making Microformats More Visible - Announcing The XFN Highlighter Script
UPDATE: The script now uses regular expressions. This fixes the problem where it translated met to me.
Read MoreLightbox JS 2.0 Released
Lightbox
JS
brought a new level of hotness when it came to displaying pictures on
your website or blog. Reference the javascript file in your html page,
add a rel="lightbox"
to a link, and voila! You have a sweet way to
display pics. I even implemented it on my blog as evidenced by the image
below. Go ahead, click on it (assuming you are not reading this in an
aggregator).
CoComment Support in Subtext
Since I was called out, I went ahead and quickly implemented CoComment for Subtext, but I have yet to deploy it to my personal blog. It will be released as part of our upcoming interim 1.0.5.0 release which is focused on bug fixes and a few developer goodies thrown in.
Read MoreWriting For A Book Exposes My Ignorance
I was recently approached by some people I know purely through blogging and IM conversations to write on a topic for a book they are putting together. Of course I was honored and appreciative that they thought of me, even after finding out there would be no payment for the work. Doh!
Read MoreGetting A Jump on Web 2.1 aka Web 2007
Despite the apparent hype factor of “Web 2.0”, I am really starting to get into the whole Web 2.0 phenomena. I think it really clicked when hearing about it in various panel discussions at Mix06.
Read MoreBack from Puerto Vallarta
In case you were wondering how such a loudmouth as myself could be so quiet for four days and three nights, my wife and I were in Puerto Vallarta enjoying a real vacation. By “real” I mean completely devoid of work. I didn’t so much as walk into a cyber cafe (though I did peer real hard inside).
Read More[Mix06] Very Late Roundup
I apologize for writing up a roundup for the Mix06 conference several days too late, but I was not in a good condition to blog during the conference. In part it was due to a cold I was fighting which left me unmotivated to blog. You might think that the lack of sleep and drinking would have contributed, but the strange thing about Vegas is that the less I slept, and the more I drank, the better I felt.
Read MorePlaying Against A World Cup Winner
You Europeans ought to appreciate this one.
Read MoreIs Open Source A Crap Idea?
Scott Hanselman asks the question, Is Open Source a Crap Idea. I sure hope not.
Read MoreGoing to Puerto Vallarta
So the missus and I are heading over to Puerto Vallarta this Sunday for a short mini-vacation. For me it is a chance to recover from Mix06. It was kind of unfortunate that the two events are so close together, but that was pure coincidence.
Read MoreThe On10 Pregnant Photo
Ok, so I accidentally ran into that pregnant woman photo that the on10 team used to hint at what was coming next. It is in the third row of search results for the same free stock photo site I use. Thought it was kind of funny as I was searching for the term “rest”
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