Apologies 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.
One 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.
Swinging 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.
Writing 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.
Back 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).
[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.
Playing Against A World Cup Winner
You Europeans ought to
appreciate this one.
Is 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.
The 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”
Read More[Mix06] The Value Of A Partial Message With Indigo
I was involved in a 5 AM breakfast conversation (a little late night snack before we all turned in for the evening) with Clemens Vasters, Steve Maine, and some others at Mix06 in which they explained how streaming content works with WCF (code named Indigo).
Read MoreNo REST In Lo-REST
UPDATE: Ok, so being away from RSS Bandit has put me out of touch of some of the other discussion on this topic. As Dare writes, Don isn’t the first person to make the Lo-REST distinction.
Read MoreAnd The Award To The Funniest Commenter On This Blog Goes To
My Wife! The comedienne. Honey, still don’t quit your day job.
Read More[Mix06] Microformats Autodiscovery
It is unfortunate that I haven’t been able to blog much about the Mix06 conference so far, as there is so much worth writing about. Unfortunately I have acquired a bad cold on top of a splitting headache that will not go away. Such is the price one pays when partying with the hard charging Microsofties (particularly with such Indigo team members such as Steve Maine and Clemens Vasters).
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