Jason Alexander

Moving Video Providers

2008-10-05T17:15:05Z

Thanks for everyone's responses - so far, the overwhelming response has been: 1.) You guys don't mind that I ramble. Good! 2.) The video isn't working in most RSS readers. I talked with ScottW about this a little, and it sounds like it just requires making sure you're using a trusted video provider. I've found a good link on Google Reader that talks about their embedded support , so it sounds like I just need to someone else. Any recommendations? I'm going to play with them...(read more)

I'm going to ramble!

2008-10-02T20:35:29Z

I'm going to ramble. Sue me! Posted over at http://JasonA.net. As my video talks about, I'm still rough at this. It's so hard to be able to look at yourself and listen to yourself, that I'm still stuttering a bit with my presentation. It's going to improve, so please be patient with me. Meanwhile, if you guys are reading this in RSS readers and don't see a video shoot me an email at jalexander at telligent dot com and I will see what's going on. Worst case, come hit my...(read more)

Next phase of my blog!

2008-09-23T19:18:00Z

Next phase of my blog! Trying out video blogging as the next evolution of my blog. Posted at http://JasonA.net. Original posted at http://jasona.net/personal/next-phase-of-my-blog/...(read more)

Intel Capital invests $20M in Telligent

2008-09-23T14:21:00Z

So, I've been kinda quiet here. Not for lack of wanting, but strictly because I've been a little busy. We can finally talk about all the craziness here at Telligent, too: http://telligent.com/news-and-events/news/intel-capital-to-acquire-20-million-stake-in-telligent/ "Intel Capital , Intel’s global investment organization, today announced an agreement to acquire a $20 million stake in Telligent Systems, makers of social computing solutions and business intelligence tools. Based...(read more)

Graffiti CMS & asp.NETPRO Reader's Choice

2008-03-17T18:52:10Z

Just a quick note... We're up on the ballot this year with our new product, Graffiti CMS . If you haven't played with it, take a look, and if you have: GO VOTE FOR US, PLEASE! :) Ok, enough of the shameless plugs. Sorry!...(read more)

Get off your butt and blog!

2008-02-27T21:21:02Z

Hey again! Yes, I know, I'm blogging again. Gasp. Shock. Awe. Hehe. This week I want to talk about what it takes to get blogging on a normal basis. If you read my post last week about losing weight and the discipline it took there, I thought surely I can get off my butt and actually blog on a normal basis. I can't let this blogging thing "beat" me, dangit! So, in my usual manner (as Rob can attest) I set out to figure out how I can do this on a normal basis by putting together my...(read more)

Authorize.net C# Implementation

2008-02-27T20:52:00Z

So, of all my old Code Drop posts that I did last year, I probably get at least one email a week asking where my Authorize.net wrappers went. I had no idea these things were so "popular" until they were no longer available. Digging through my old webroot, I dug these out of Community Server and stuck them up. If you're interested, you can download them now here: http://jasona.net/files/uploads/AuthorizeNet.zip Likewise, I've added a new category to my site called "Downloads"...(read more)

DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 Released!

2008-02-23T16:32:00Z

Andrew announced this on the mailing list , but DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 was released yesterday! It's been awhile, but this was a pet project that I started quite awhile back when I decided to start porting the JanRain boo libraries over to C#. Digging in, I found lots of interest in this area, and Andrew had built some ASP.NET controls for OpenId already - it seemed like a perfect fit! And, boy, was it - Andrew has been a MACHINE. Unfortunately, I've been busy and haven't done much other then...(read more)

How to get skinny.

2008-02-21T07:22:10Z

Now, I know it's been awhile since I last blogged. And, I'm sorry. I really am. There's no excuse other than that I've been really busy. But, who isn't? I promise to work harder this year about blogging more often. That said, I wanted to kick it off with a post that's a bit off-topic. I hate to do the fatblogging like Jason Calacanis, but as some of you know I've taken control of my weight the past year and I've had lots of questions of how I did it. I think many times...(read more)

Getting Upgraded!

2008-01-23T02:05:30Z

I spent about an hour this afternoon getting all upgraded to the latest version of Graffiti beta 2 . The upgrade was super, super easy and now Jayme 's migration tool is all built right into the product itself, so I imported most of my old CS blogs in a matter of minutes! It was incredible. Very nice work, guys. This is certainly a shining example of always hiring people smarter than yourself. ;-) Go check it out, if you haven't already! And, excuse the dust around here while I get things...(read more)

Must-have apps and answers for Windows Mac converts

2007-10-25T17:37:38Z

So, in my ongoing task to convert people over to the Mac platform (at least for day-to-day work), I was able to convert Eric Smith , of CodeSmith fame. He had been asking little questions here and there for a few weeks, and one day I got a rash of questions throughout the day. Lo and behold, the next day he came to work with a brand new, fancy schmancy Macbook. So, after having taken the red pill , he had lots of questions of what apps were must-have's, how does he do certain things, and so on...(read more)

What's on your Phone?

2007-10-12T19:29:22Z

Wow, who woulda thunk it? 5 years ago I was adamant about the fact that you should only use your mobile phone as a phone. I really didn't like using email on the phone, I hated text messages... yes, call me a grumpy old man. But, just this morning while I was driving in, I realized I use my phone for EVERYTHING these days. I'm talking on it (though, as some of you that know me personally can attest, I HATE talking on the phone), sending text messages, answering email, and then browsing.....(read more)

MarsEdit - Blogging Tool for OS X!

2007-10-09T19:22:00Z

So, Scott pointed me at MarsEdit as a blogging tool on OS X. I had always tried to use ecto for my blogging client on OS X, but I think I like MarsEdit better. It's much simpler, cleaner and better looking. ecto seems to be more advanced and have more features, but at the end of the day I just want a blogging client, dammit. I don't need it to cook me breakfast, speak to me in French, and give me a back massage (scratch that, I DO want that). But, so far I likey. Rating? 4 out of 5 stars...(read more)

Live Writer support!

2007-10-08T23:09:12Z

The great thing about Graffiti is that it also supports the MetaBlog API so that means you can use your favorite posting application, like Windows Live Writer (my personal favorite). Well, it should work. We'll see if this post gets there. ;)...(read more)

New site launched!

2007-10-07T16:54:00Z

So, I spent much of Saturday night working on a new skin for my site. I knew that I wanted to roll out our new product, Graffiti (website coming soon!), to use on my site (I wouldn't be a good Telligenti if I didn't dogfood it!). I started off by not even booting my Parallels XP VM up, and worked just on the OS X side with TextMate , and CSSEdit . I was convinced that I could just design a site from scratch. And, I probably could have, but ultimately my laziness won over and I started digging...(read more)