February 2007 - Posts
A couple of nights ago I added the new logo to the site. The logo looked so good it made the rest of the site look terrible. I had to spend the last two nights bringing everything else up to snuff. Here is a screenshot that I took of my previous design attempt. Compare that to this most recent screenshot of the home page and you'll see that the site is starting to really look like a site. My forays into the dark side are showing promise (dark side = design). There are a few things that are not completed...
Recently several Telligenti have publicly, though maybe not officially, discussed side projects that they are working on/have worked on. I wanted to take a minute to point out a few of the ones that I know of just to make the point that not only are the Telligenti smart, talented folks, but they're good .NET community contributors and citizens. Some of the following projects are open source community-based projects, some are personal pet projects and some might even be Telligent skunkworks projects...
I get about 50 spam comments a day. The built-in spam rules along with the Akismet mod do a great job of catching 98% of the spam comments. One or two a day tend to sneak through, but it isn't a big deal to manually delete those. I tend to get one or two false positives a week as well. Because I am a polite fellow I hate to think that someone has taken the time to comment here only to have that comment thrown into spam hell, never be seen again. So I end up spending a few minutes a day (or several...
There comes in a time in a pet project's life when it's time to decide whether to cut bait or keep trolling. If the decision is to keep on keepin' on then that project needs to find some Source Control love and find its way into the Continuous Build process. This past weekend was the time when WhatIWantMost got its source put into Subversion and got itself added to my CruiseControl.NET builds. For source control I am using Subversion without a Subversion server as described by Ken Robertson a couple...
I put together my own take on a Web 2.0 logo using the Web 2.0 Webdesign Tutorials on the Dr. Web Weblog. Of course part of doing the exercise is to poke humor at Web 2.0 design, but I also think that I might have come up with a clever little logo, too. Have I mentioned before that my design skills suck? I think I need to lighten up the dropshadow around the gift - it looks a bit to heavy now that I see it in space. I think I need to raise the gift logo up a few pixels as well to better balance it...
Or a better title may be "Sometimes the customer really doesn't know what he/she wants". I was looking through some old project files over the weekend, looking for some code examples. I came across an ecommerce project that Chad and I had finished up a little over a year ago while at Tellus. We had some issues with the production process, basically we underestimated some things and they waited to inform us about some things until late into the project. The end result was that their final cost ended...
For my family members who faithfully read my blog (Hi Mom!) though they have no idea what I'm writing about most of the time I present you with this excellent short description of Community Server by Design MeltDown (via Jon Broom ) along with some screenshots and links to sites that use it. My description of Telligent and Community server usually draw blank stares from you guys. Hopefully this will help clear things up a bit. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live...
Ryan W posed a challenge to me in comments he left to my "I'm sick and tired of this weather and I want to move south" post. He suggested that a nice mashup might be in order to help me monitor the weather and important facts about prospective cities. I took Ryan's challenge to heart and spent a couple of hours the last few evenings putting a little something together: my I Want to Move South! Mashup Beta (LINK UPDATED 3/7/07 - demo moved to its own site). Currently it only lists the cities that...
Jeffrey Palermo wrote the below and then challenged the community to use what works and evangelize: ... My team did not dabble with converting from NAnt to MSBuild or from NUnit to MSTest. Here is my thought process: Our process works (CruiseControl.Net, NAnt, NUnit, compiler). CruiseControl.Net stays. I don't see an alternative that is compelling, and CruiseControl.Net is not causing me pain. NAnt stays. I see MSBuild as a comparable alternative but with no compelling advantage over NAnt to force...
Because of personal and family bouts with the flu I have not done anything new this week on the WhatIWantMost project. I hope to correct that this weekend. In the meantime I have some leftovers from last week that I have not had a chance to talk about yet. Late last week I spent a few evenings doing some clean-up work. Growing weary of the amateurish looking homebuilt CSS layout I went looking for something a little more solid. I ended up using one of Dynamic Drive's CSS layouts to fix the liquid...
The last couple of weeks may have been the proverbial straw. Between the freezing cold, the damned snow, the sleet, the flu, the (bad word!) heating bill, the flu and just being locked up indoors all day... we've about had it with our beloved Cincinnati-area homestead. Sometimes I can't believe that we left the Seattle/Tacoma area in 1994 to come "home". Bah! I might have finally convinced my lovely wife, Dawn, that it's time to move south. For years she has maintained that she doesn't mind the cold...
Dustin Campbell contributed his second post today in his new series preparing us for functional programming in .NET 3.0. Today he went into more detail about closures . Yesterday he introduced closures while discussing how to calculate a Fibonacci Sequence . Some pretty heavy stuff. But surprisingly I kind of get it. He signed off today with the following: We will building on this knowledge in future articles so understanding closures is important. Things will quickly start to make your head spin...
I was looking through comments marked as possible spam a few minutes ago and found a wonderful comment left by Wendy Wonder about dogs eating feces. Those comment spammers are getting pretty creative. After removing the spam links from her post I went ahead and published the comment. You can see it here on my summer project (deck) post . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
I'm an avid reader of Rick Segal's blog, The Post Money Value . I'm don't read any other start-up blogs or VC blogs, but I like Rick's writing style and point of view. Because of his Microsoft background and VC interest in technology and specifically the web a lot of the things he has to say interest me. In his latest post, IMIFIED = Making the Money Point , Rick discusses a new startup, Imified , and uses its 4-month development cycle to stress a point that he has made before: ...Will it require...
I have been in the web business for about 10 years now. Over that time I have spent a lot of time looking at competitors' sites. Anytime a site, good or bad, has a link on it to who developed/designed it I will follow. Curious by nature, I usually just want to see who did the work and what kind of work they do. Some of the shops I have worked for have had some really good sites and some have had some pretty bad sites. The stock excuse for a bad site is "We're so busy working on clients' sites that...
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