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CodeStock 2009!

The Penton-izer — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:47:00 GMT

I was invited to speak at CodeStock 2009 this year. There were some great people here, met some new people I've only previously known on Twitter. I wasn't able to be here for most of the Friday sessions, but did go to one on Friday afternoon and several on Saturday. Probably the most entertaining presentation I saw was Chris G. Williams on XNA Programming. Mostly because I never really looked into XNA at all. There does look like a good bit of potential there. Chris mentioned that most of...(read more)

An answer for the “So what do you do?” question

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:35:33 GMT

I get asked this question a lot from friends and family, I’m sure we all do. It’s easy to explain to my geeky friends, not so easy to explain to my friends and family who aren’t so geeky. It usually goes something like this Me: “I work for Telligent Systems, we build community collaboration tools.” Them: <blank stare> Me: “We build forums, blogs, wikis, … that kind of stuff.” Them: <blank stare> Me: “Companies like Dell, Intel, Microsoft run our software for a lot of their customer community...(read more)

Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Ben Tiedt's Blog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:58 GMT

I've just published some initial tutorials and information regarding widget creation in the newly release Telligent Evolution Platform . Fortunately, if you're familiar with creating widgets in Community Server 2008/2008.5 , you already have a basic understanding of widget support in Telligent Evolution. The same base interface and classes are used in Telligent Evolution, but they have been extended to add more configuration and implementation options. I'm hoping to post more information...(read more)

Just Announced: Tellligent Enterprise and Telligent Community

Ben Tiedt's Blog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:28:52 GMT

From telligent.com ... "Telligent, a leader in community, collaboration and social analytics software, today announced the availability of version 5.0 of Telligent Community (previously Community Server) and version 2.0 of Telligent Enterprise (previously Community Server Evolution). The latest versions of Telligent’s community and collaboration software represent the company’s ongoing commitment to innovation and enterprise collaboration." There are so many new features that I can't...(read more)

How to add NUnit as a test framework option to the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 dialog for VS2008

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:42:00 GMT

There are much longer more detailed ways involving editing the registry, running "devenv ..." command-line stuff, etc. This is by far the fastest and easiest way: 0.a. Make sure you have the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Framework installed. I'm a dummy and still had the Beta installed and was surprised when the project wouldn't build. Then I realized my blunder. 0.b. Close any open instances of Visual Studio 2008 1. Go to this URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated...(read more)

Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester tonight

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:28:00 GMT

There is a Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester, OH tonight (June 12, 2009) at 6:30 PM . The organizers of the event intended it to be a: Gathering for those in town and those coming in town for the CINNUG ORM Firestarter at Dewey's Pizza, West Chester, OH I’m fairly certain we’re a little more all-inclusive than that and we will welcome anyone who would like to attend. If you meet any one or more of the following criteria you are welcome to join us for the fun and festivities: You are...(read more)

Say Hello to Homebrewing

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:10:00 GMT

My brother, Andy, began brewing beer in January of this year. We had been talking about taking up the hobby for years and finally made the leap. Since then we’ve brewed about seven 5-gallon batches of different styles. We’ve used ingredient kits from Brewer’s Best , Midwest , and one from a local company. We’ve been really pleased One of our best and favorites (so far), a Russian Imperial Stout, was reviewed by Mr. Porch of BeerAndCigars.net about a month ago. Saturday we brewed up a batch of American...(read more)

Must Have Windows Home Server Add-Ons?

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:15:00 GMT

I’m still an inquisitive kid at heart. As soon as I bring home a new toy I spend a lot of time figuring out how it works, customizing it to my liking, adding things to it to make it better. My browsers have my favorite add-ons, extensions, and plug-ins installed (del.icio.us, Evernote, etc). I add memory, hard drives, etc. to my computers and laptops. There are few things that I own that are easily modified that are not modified. The surprising thing that I haven’t mucked with yet is my Windows Home...(read more)

WWDC 2009 Predictions

Simpable — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:10:34 GMT

This is probably more of a wish list than predictions of what will be announced at WWDC 2009 . I really have zero insight into the Apple world, but I know what I want and have a few guesses. Here goes. iPhone 3.0 – In addition to the already announced OS updates, I am hoping for a better camera and video support (it kills me that I need to carry an iPhone and Flip) as well as an announcement about improved bandwidth from AT&T. Anything else is gravy. If they really wanted to make me (and many...(read more)

Smile and Wave via Google App Engine

Simpable — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:31:56 GMT

Just incase you been living under a technology rock for the last week or so, please go check out the Google Wave demo video before continuing reading this post. Based on the Wave video and this roadmap post by the Google App Engine (GAE) team (along with a little bit of bias/opinion) I think it is safe to assume the following: GAE will be the preferred/default way to host your own instances of Google Wave (remember, it is largely going to be open source). GAE will be the preferred way to build extensions...(read more)

On Awesomeness

Simpable — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:23:23 GMT

What a spectacular quote , But I am still not satisfied; every day I reach higher, trying to grasp the level of awesomeness that I can feel but can't recreate. Posted to Life and tagged as quotes Similar Posts A Remarkable Moo Cow Why Twitter? Are Trackbacks (still) Worth It?...(read more)

It’s Always the Little Things

Simpable — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:09:09 GMT

A really interesting article, The Flimsy Doorknob & A Forgettable Receipt , by Dustin Curtis . I think his points are spot on. Stop and think about some of your recent experiences (especially bad ones). I think you will be amazed that in hindsight it is the little things that stick with you. Posted to Business Similar Posts Randy Pausch iPhone vs. BlackBerry Cigarette Butts...(read more)

Best @TFFRatio Requests, Part III

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:09:00 GMT

I’ve been trying to convince myself over the last couple of weeks that I should write a blog post, but I truly feel that I have nothing worth sharing that couldn’t be put down in 140 characters or less (referring to Twitter/Facebook, of course). I’m sure you don’t really care about the minor yard work I’ve been doing or the hours I spend puttering around in the garage. Now that warm weather and sunshine have returned to my part of the world I’ve been spending more free time outside and as far away...(read more)

Pandora One – Simple Done Right

Simpable — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:49:50 GMT

Last night I asked on Twitter if anyone had signed up for Pandora One and thought it was worth the $36/yr price. Omar Shahine quickly responded that he felt it was and also said, “I consider it a donation for such an an awesome service”. He is absolutely correct. Even if Pandora One sucked, making a donation to such a useful service is definitely worth it. So this morning I went ahead and signed up and I have to say it is an absolutely fabulous experience on a couple fronts. First, before we...(read more)

Facebook for Windows Mobile 6

Rick Reszler — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:25 GMT

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and: Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook. Send messages or call people in your Friends list. Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere. Keep up with the latest news and posts with Facebook on your phone. Now your status updates can be up-to-the moment accounts of what you’re...(read more)

The karma of scoffing

Stacy Randolph — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:12:03 GMT

Today, I had a two hour training presentation to give on the MSFT campus. It’s a beautiful day here in the Seattle area: blue sky, bright sun, a bit breezy. So, I wore my new green short sleeved blouse that I bought this winter dreaming of the day I could wear a nice blouse instead of a double layered sweater. Today was the day, the first of the season of bare arms. I pull into the MS parking lot and I see my client pull in at the same time as me. We both get out of our cars and say our greetings...(read more)

The Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:19:00 GMT

What wondrous specimen of perfection has the following ingredients list? Two (2) DiGiorno Cheese Stuffed Crust frozen pizzas Two (2) 12-oz packages of bacon One (1) egg One (1) pound of ground beef One (1) medium sized onion Two (2) cloves of garlic Approximately two (2) pounds of various shredded and sliced cheese The heavenly goodness that is The Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Pizza Burger , that’s what! (Warning: some of the advertisements on theChive.com could be considered by some as NSFW) I won’t...(read more)

Sparking Azure

Simpable — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:38:27 GMT

You know what they say, it only takes a spark. :) As I mentioned before, I have fallen in love with the Spark ViewEngine . It is a very nice mix of power and simplicity. I also been spending a lot more time on cloud related initiatives, so I was bummed to learn Spark could not be used on Azure (compute) since it requires full trust (and Azure initially had a no concept of trust levels, it only had one limited trust level). Fortunately for me (and hopefully you) one of the many Azure Mix announcements...(read more)

Do You Never Have Time?

Simpable — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:10:38 GMT

How often do you say to yourself, I would start X or build Y if I only had the time. It’s amazing the amount you can accomplish when you find an extra 3,285 hours to work on something you enjoy doing rather than vegging in front of the TV. Those hours helped us create a small network of websites and blogs which allowed both of us to quit our jobs and work on them full time a couple of years ago. Full Article: How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job, Create an Online Business and Fund My Retirement...(read more)

RSS Feeds For Graffiti Tags

Simpable — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:07:45 GMT

Or put another way, when a feature does not really exist. I always thought Graffiti had support for RSS feeds per tag. But it turns out that while we have RSS autodiscovery for these feeds, they are never generated by Graffiti. A couple users pinged us this week about this feature. Unfortunately, it is not on the current feature roadmap, so I figured I would put together a simple example and publish it here. If you would like to add support for RSS feeds per tag within your Graffiti site, you can...(read more)

Creating a Twitter-like logo

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:48:00 GMT

I recently upgraded the look of the TwitterRatio site. The charcoal look was okay for starters but I wanted to make it look more Twitter-like, something that I’d noticed that a lot of other Twitter utility sites had been doing. In the process I created a Twitter-like logo and thought I’d share how it was done in case one of you loyal readers was wondering just how to make a Twitter-like logo for yourself. Additionally I thought it was about time to impress you once again with my less than adequate...(read more)

SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference

The Penton-izer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:06:56 GMT

Yes, I am speaking at the SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference. I am in the .NET Development vConference and have 3 talks - Microsoft "Velocity", A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache, and finally Thread Safety Through Self-Loading Collections. If you want to register for the vConference, all of the talks will re-run this evening. Go to the site and use my VIP code SPVDPESP09 for $10 off the conference. There are many great talks, from .Net and Sharepoint to SQL and BI . Let me know what you think...(read more)

10 Tips for Running Live Virtual Presentations

evolvingWe — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:42:00 GMT

Every other week our product team completes an iteration and holds a demo meeting to showcase new features, improvements, comps, spike results, etc. We do this meeting online via LiveMeeting & a phone conference system. We average around 50 participants (including customers & partners!) and 4-8 presenters each week. It’s a circus and we’ve learned a lot… 1. Be a participant too – If you are the organizer of the meeting and not a solo presenter you need to know what...(read more)

Four Great Free Services You Are Likely Not Using

Simpable — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:21:51 GMT

I am constantly amazed at the number of awesome services which are available (at least in some capacity) for free. Some like Twitter get tons of press. Others, provide a quality service to a loyal set of users but largely remain out of the spotlight. Here are four services which you might not have heard of, but I highly recommend you look into. 1. Instapaper – So much to read, so little time. Instapaper provides a very simple unobtrusive way to save a link to be read later. Simply click a bookmarklet...(read more)

A brief look at the Google Chart API

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:36:00 GMT

I needed a simple chart control. I briefly thought about the new ASP.NET Chart control , but that is .NET 3.5 and my current code base is still .NET 2.0. I probably could migrate the code to 3.5 painlessly enough, but “if it ain’t broke…”. I have some experience with amCharts , and they provide an option to use any of their products for freeda, with the only limitation being a small link to their web site being displayed in the top left corner of every chart. I had read about the Google Chart API...(read more)