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Google is blocking intitle: Design searches

Renaissauce: Thoughts — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:03:28 GMT

Wow, so I was looking for items related to web design last night and it was working just fine. Tonight google is blocking these same searches. what up with that? That is not the odd part, it looks like searches for items on web security work, just not web design. So here are my searches: intitle:"index.of" web security and intitle:"index.of" web design Isn't that strange? Why protect directories containing items related to web design and not items...(read more)

Lan and Deon #3

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:33:00 GMT

Lan and Deon go to their local .NET User Group meeting... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Distributed Caching - Strategies and Tips

Simpable — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:17:52 GMT

As I have mentioned recently , we ( Telligent ) are starting to implement distributed caching in Community Server and will likely build it in early in some of the other product work we are doing. While we are not yet done with this work, there are some early patterns and tips I think you will find helpful. Don't count on it . Similar to ASP.Net's out of the box in-process cache (HttpCache), you must always assume data in the cache does not exist. Do not update objects in the cache by reference...(read more)

I like VisualSVN

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:39:00 GMT

I'm not a big fan of Source Code Management integration with Visual Studio. I don't know, maybe VSS soured me years ago. When using Vault in the past I installed the Visual Studio integration tools once and uninstalled them a few days later. While using Subversion almost exclusively over the last three years I've been more than happy using TortoiseSVN in an explorer window. The separation of SCM and programming IDE has been refreshing and actually lends itself well to the way Subversion...(read more)

Mac Blogging - 2

Simpable — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:51:45 GMT

Windows Live Writer is still best desktop blogging tool on the "market", but as the name implies it only works on Windows. I had been using TextMate for a while, but I have been wanting something a bit richer. After a bit of debugging and testing, I was finally able to get Etco to support slugs, extended entries, and tags by leveraging the Moveable Type and Wordpress versions of the MetaBlog API. I am still hoping to get MarsEdit to work properly but its requirement to use the mt.setCategories...(read more)

SpaceInvaders

Rick Reszler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:51:00 GMT

Posted to Games Similar Posts Adding your CS Badge to your CS 2.1 Blog Single Blog Only - Community Server 2.1 Adding Front Page News to CS 2.1...(read more)

Locking Down Community Server 2008.1

evolvingWe — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:03:00 GMT

We're only a couple of weeks away from a beta release of Community server 2008.1. As previously discussed this is the first of a more rapid pace of releases for the Community Server product. (There is a public roadmap we've produced that I'm hoping to have published next week some time to www.communityserver.com . ) What this means though is that we're pretty locked on what we are shipping and what we are NOT shipping. This post will give you a few more details to help get you ready...(read more)

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:17:00 GMT

I recently added membership, accounts, login, etc. to the AspDotNetMVC site. While doing so I decided I wanted to support OpenID, too. However, I didn't want to go with only OpenID because I needed ASP.NET Membership in place to work in conjunction with another application, a Kigg site used as a service for rating content on the AspDotNetMVC site. I could have probably converted the Kigg code base to use OpenID but I also wanted to allow people who may not have OpenID to create traditional accounts...(read more)

Episodes of a Dad - Part 2

TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Today was our last day in Dallas before our vacation to Destin, Florida. You know, a day to get everything packed and ready for the fun in the sun to come. But today was one of those days that you could make a really funny movie out of or just break down in angst and defeat. When you have kids, you know there will be great moments, your sons first soccer goal, your daughters first dance recital, etc... There are also those days that seem to never end. This was one of those days. It all started a...(read more)

Dropbox

Simpable — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:54:52 GMT

Dropbox is a super simple way to share files across multiple computers (PC or Mac) as well as with friends and family. It does a couple of things I really like: It is accessible both on your desktop and the web Has a built in photo gallery tool which makes sharing a bunch of pictures as easy as dragging and dropping them to a folder. Supports easily sending links of files It is beyond easy to use Some people don’t like the idea that doesn’t auto-sync directories, but I find that type of synchronization...(read more)

in.telligent 2008

Simpable — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:41:46 GMT

Registration is now open for in.telligent 2008 which will be take place October 20 to October 22 in Dallas, Texas. This is the evolution of the what we called the CSDC (Community Server Developers Conference) last year. So of the changes you will this year: A lot more polish. There has been a team working hard on this for a couple of months now. No weekends. We were feeling things out last year and scheduled the CSDC over the weekend. This year we are starting early on Monday morning. A much nicer...(read more)

Installing Windows Live – Welcome Back to the 90’s

Simpable — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:56:33 GMT

I was trying to install Windows Live Writer on a new windows box and was greeted with something I thought had been put to rest many years ago. What’s wrong here? All three options are checked by default. I am OK with the option to help improve the application, but do you really need to change my default search provider and even worse change my home page? I understand that it costs money to develop Windows Live Writer, but this is crappy way to go about it. Posted to Software and tagged as wlw Similar...(read more)

No iTunes AppStore Demo

Simpable — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:42:30 GMT

Mashable has a story, " iPhone App Store Prices are Outrageous and it Needs to Stop " which criticizes some of the crappy applications available in the AppStore. ...but why hasn’t anyone even mentioned the fact that most of the paid applications aren’t all that great and more often than not, they’re incredibly overpriced? The problem is not the prices or quality. The real issue is there is currently no way to try an application before you buy it. While there is a review...(read more)

O'Reilly EBooks DRM Free

Simpable — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:47:55 GMT

O'Reilly has made the move to expand their EBook select to a couple of additional formats including Amazon's Kindle format. What is also very interesting is they have chose to ship the books DRM free. O'Reilly has released 30 titles as DRM-free downloadable ebook bundles. The bundles include three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket) for a single price -- at or below the book's cover price. And for a bit more than the cover price, you can get the print version...(read more)

How to use Kigg as a service from other sites

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:33:00 GMT

In yesterday's post I started providing some detail about my use of Kigg to add rating functionality to the AspDotNetMVC site . Because I wanted to integrate the ASP.NET Membership store between the two sites into an external database I started by decoupling the membership data from the Kigg database, model and code. My end goal was to allow visitors to the AspDotNetMVC site to view the number of existing votes for each article (blog post, buzz, news, or video) and to vote for an article if they...(read more)

Xbox Live Fall Update - E3

TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Today at E3 Microsoft previewed the upcoming fall Xbox Live update. And what changes there will be. The interface is obviously moving towards more of a Mac/Vista look and feel. Gamercards are still around as will your gamerscore, but my first question is what will happen to all of those 1000's of Microsoft points I spent on Themes and Gamerpics??? Next they are going the Wii route by introducing avatars that can potentially be included in upcoming game titles as well as more community feel by...(read more)

270

TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Why 270? What does it mean? Why is it the title of this post? This number is very meaningful to me. Well at least today it is. You see 270 represents the number of days between the last shutout in our office hockey competitions. The last time it happened, October 19th, 2007 it was a very shocking event as I would put the % of games that end in a shutout at less than 1%. Now today it has happened again. Rob Howard and I beat the team of Scott Dockendorf and Kevin Cunningham 3-0 to record the second...(read more)

How I got started in Software Development

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:34:22 GMT

I've finally gotten around to answering Michael Eaton's question: How did you get started in software development? How old were you when you started programming? How did you get started in programming? I think that the first time that I got the concept of writing instructions for computers to execute was probably somewhere around 7th or 8th grade - 12 years old I guess. A couple of classmates were playing around on the one Apple IIc (?) in our math classroom and wrote one of the all time...(read more)

How to decouple the ASP.NET Membership database from Kigg

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:57:00 GMT

This evening I posted an update to the AspDotNetMVC site that includes allowing voting on the ASP.NET MVC blog posts, buzz, articles and news that the site collects. You can see a page that uses it here: http://aspdotnetmvc.com/blogs . Rather than create my own rating system I decided to leverage Kigg instead. I mentioned in a previous post that I had been looking at Kigg and that I had upgraded it from ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 to Preview 3 . Why not use Kigg? It has nearly everything that I need, it...(read more)

Convert Normal Photos to Retro Photos

Renaissauce: Thoughts — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:52:00 GMT

I really love the way that old photo's look, I am talking about photo's from the 60s and 70s. This is a look that is certainly lost with most modern digital photos that people are shooting. I think it is the color's of these old photo's that I like so much, and the fact that each one has it's own character. When you are surrounded by perfect looking photo's you start to appreciate retro photo's and the character they provide. This absence of perfection...(read more)

iPhone 3G Adventures

TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:18:00 GMT

It is done!!! I finally got my iPhone 3G around noon today but not without some adventure and waiting in the process. I would love to hear anyone elses stories around waiting for the phone today. I stopped in at a local mall this morning to see if I could "pop" in and pick up the 3G. Needless to say the line there was 700+ people long. So plan B was to go to an AT&T store close to my office. The line being only 20 people I thought this would be my ticket to getting my 3G. After about...(read more)

More Fun with Users... from Digg

evolvingWe — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:12:00 GMT

Here are two bits from the user registration process at Digg that makes them a little more human. and Posted to Design and tagged as digg , registration , ui , fun Similar Posts OCS 2007 - On Crowdsourcing Are You Ready for Smarter Spenders Bursting Your Bubble? Creating a New Breed of PMs at Telligent...(read more)

Now with a picture

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:29:00 GMT

I finally got around to adding a picture of me to this blog, thanks to some prodding (you know who you are!). After doing so I realized that this theme is getting a little bit crowded and dated. I hate to add to my to-do list but I'm now in search of something else. Move my personal blog to Graffiti . Choose one of the existing out of the box Graffiti themes, choose one of Rich's themes - I really like the PointSpace one, or create a new one. I want something much simpler than this one whatever...(read more)

When to Panic

Simpable — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:09:11 GMT

Microsoft announced yesterday that they are going to offer very low cost hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint . For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month. The quote above (with a little help from Rob ) reminded me of an essay in my favorite...(read more)

Lan & Deon #1

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:59:00 GMT

Hopefully the first of many... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)