March 2007 - Posts
Scott Water posted yesterday that we are looking for someone to join our product team . The product team is in charge of products, duh, including Community Server and others (that I can't talk about here, shhhhh) along with coming up with great new ideas and making them happen - like BlogMailr . Additionally we also work on a couple of very large ASP.Net sites and some of the largest installations of Community Server. We're looking to add someone to our sites team. So basically you'll be working...
Update (3/28/07): source code posted here . Update (4/3/07): I did not realize until today that Keyvan Nayyeri had already created something similar, SyndicationAds, as part of the Community Server MVP's Alabaster CS Module Package . Shout out to Keyvan who beat me to the bunch by about 7 months. In a post a few days ago I posed a rhetorical question as to whether I could get ads in my RSS feeds on this site by the end of the weekend. If you've read my posts today via RSS you'd see that I did indeed...
Others have already reported on the plethora of excellent presentations at this past Saturday's Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp . After all, I am at least a day (more like two) in getting this post out. And I agree, it was awesome. I mean really, really unbelievably awesome. I'm glad I volunteered to work the event and help with registration because I got to talk to a lot of people who I otherwise would not have. The Great Lakes Region of .NET developers is really unbelievable. Not only do we some of...
A few days ago Jason Alexander posted that one of the founders of BlueDot.us had responded to an email he sent to their customer service, saying that he was thoroughly impressed. Jason's exact quote was: Let that be a business lesson for everyone: reader and interact with your customers directly. You'll reap huge benefits in return. I promise. In a post last night I wrote about signing up for Pheedo , but never getting around to implementing it. Within hours Bill Flitter, the founder of Pheedo, left...
Just a quick post before I go off to bed early tonight - the Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp is tomorrow and I need to be there early to help setup. This post follows along with my recent interest in web-based advertising . I noticed a while back that FeedBurner is testing (and now offering) an advertising program and I assumed they meant adding ads to RSS feeds, since RSS feeds are what they do. I also found that Pheedo offers RSS feed ads - I signed up for a Pheedo account, but never got much further...
I've added paging to a Repeater a couple of time, though rather infrequently. Every time I take up the task again I either have to dig through old code or search Google once again. This time around I went straight to Google and found a nice simple implementation in an article on 4GuysFromRolla by Harrison Enholm, Adding Paging Support to the Repeater or DataList with the PagedDataSource Class . I have used this approach before, but wanted to list it here for future reference so I could find it easier...
I got the following Javascript error a couple of days ago that I had not seen before: Sys.ArgumentUndefinedException: Value cannot be undefined. Parameter name: id This was from a page that included some form fields, some validators, and was wrapped inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel. This had all worked fine before. I had added some other things to the page so I was systematically removing them until I could find the cause of the problem. I eventually turned to a Google Search which led me to the...
My cohort, Kyle, is offering $100 to the first person who can crack his AJAX Login Control. Head on over to his post for the details. Kyle is one bad mofo !! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
One things that bloggers love more than anything else is flair. They love to show off their Flickr pictures, which MyBlogLog visitors have visited the site recently, links to events they plan to attend, links to services or applications they use/approve and more. FeedBurner offers FeedFlare so you can add "Digg This" and "Email the Author" links to your posts and feeds. The list goes on an on. Sometimes people add too much flair. So what should a developer of an aspiring Web 2.0 social networking...
The date is set for May 5, 2007. I will be there! Last year's event was fantastic. I have no doubt that this year's event will be just as good. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
In a previous post I listed out all the ad and affiliate networks and services that I could find. Since then I continue to add more to the list. In that post I also said that "it would make an interesting exercise to try all of them and report on the experience and level of success with each one". That is what I intend to start now. While I don't know that I will sign-up, utilize and review them all I would like to try. I will keep each review short and will discuss the sign-up process, any approval...
Google's Adsense is definitely the king of the road. Just do a quick count of what you see on serious bloggers' sites or just about any site for that matter and you'll see what I mean. The Basics Along with search services and the myriad of other tools Google has developed, they also offer a very good Pay Per Click (PPC) revenue system. Sign up and implementation is easy and they have some nice reporting as well. Ads are implemented via javascript and the Adsense site provides wizards to step you...
I did one of those seedy middle-of-the-night moves with this site recently. Like Dave Burke, I switched to a Virtual Private Server and I agree - there is no going back to shared hosting now! Hopefully you did not notice any interruption in service. Since it actually did take about 24-hours for DNS changes to take affect there may be a few issues with a comment or trackback or two that were recorded on the old site/server and not on the new one - I'll review the old database one last time as part...
A few days ago I wrote of my initial impressions with WatiN . While I really like it, I mentioned that I had some trouble getting the tests to run under Cruise Control .NET. Over the weekend the author, director and admin of the WatiN project, Jeroen van Menen, commented to my original post that he runs all the WatiN build with CC.NET and NAnt and he has no problems doing so. First, I'm honored that he stopped by my little piece of the web. Second, based on his comments I decided to give my implementation...
No, I'm not starting another project and I'm not starting another blog series. First I had a problem/question/idea , then I did a little research , and now I'm just doing a little prototyping to see what's feasible. I would like to use ads from other networks in addition to Adsense on my site. I wondered what it would take to build something for my sites that would rotate ads from various ad networks rather than have to put in more ad placements to serve that purpose. Following are my requirements...
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