July 2007 - Posts
We are looking for Software Developers to join the Managed Experience Team. Managed Experience Team = you get to work with all the coolest stuff one some of our best know community sites. Currently the sites we manage are Silverlight.NET, IIS.NET, ASP.NET and WindowsClient.NET. We will be adding more and we need good great developers to join us. Right now we're looking for a couple of developers in the Seattle area, but we continue to grow and continue to need more good developers. See Josh's blog...
I mentioned in a previous post that I was dreaming up a new presentation. I had a great time at CodeMash last year and really enjoyed doing my first presentation at a conference along with Joe . The CodeMash organizers will be taking submissions for presentations soon and I recently learned that a November date has been set for the Cincinnati Dayton Code Camp. I would really like to follow up last year's success with my first solo venture. I need to put something together now, though, if I want to...
I ran into an issue today that I had not seen before where clicking the RSS link from a Community Server blog presented an error message like this: At first I thought there must be something wrong with the feed, but after a bit of troubleshooting and some time spent with Fiddler we found it was something else. The RSS page of the Community Server site was sending a 301 redirect to the FeedBurner feed link (like it is supposed to), but we were receiving another 301 redirect after that and then the...
This post is as much for my sanity, to clear my mind, as it is for sharing my thoughts. I have a couple of after hours projects going on right now and a couple that I would like to start. I have been working on a few things for the Community Server Theming Extravaganza . I have two blog themes ready to submit and I'm working on creating a site-wide theme based on one of those blog themes. The site themes are much easier to create now with the help of the Basic theme , but it will still probably go...
Last week was PTO for me. No trips planned, just a little time off to relax, maybe get a few things done around the house. At least that was the plan. The reality is that I worked my butt off every day from Saturday morning the previous weekend to Sunday evening this past weekend. There were a few days where I started working after morning coffee (about 8:30) and didn't stop until it was nearly dark. It seems we had plenty of chores that needed done around the house, more than I realized, and unfortunately...
I'm not speaking to anyone in particular with the above title, just the blogging world in general. I pruned a few RSS feeds from my reader today (Newsgator Outlook Edition in case you're keeping count) and afterward I realized that each of the three was using post excerpts in their RSS feeds. It was not a conscious decision to target those types of feeds, but that's just the way it worked out. I've never really felt that strongly that excerpts are a bad thing, however today I found myself dropping...
Following is a list of all the posts of the WhatIWantMost series. I'm listing them all here mostly for my own selfish purposes, but feel free to bookmark this post yourself. Creating the WhatIWantMost web site from scratch: Introduction WhatIWantMost.com - Introduction, part deux WhatIWantMost: User Stories WhatIWantMost: Establishing Entities WhatIWantMost: Errata I WhatIWantMost: Adding Attributes to the Entities WhatIWantMost: Database I WhatIWantMost: Starting off with .netTiers WhatIWantMost...
At the end of my last WhatIWantMost post (about 3-1/2 months ago) I wrote that the site was getting close to being good enough and that I had hoped to roll it out soon. Over the following month I asked some friends and colleagues to review the site and provide feedback. Afterward I implemented some changes and cleaned quite a few things up. This is the post that I have wanted to make for quite some time but have been dreading somewhat as well. I'm not much of a bragger and I'm a bit of an introvert...