Saturday, April 12, 2008
...which seemed to work after making a few configuration changes on my IIS server. A true RTFM moment. Of course, there are still a few glitches to work out, but with a little help from my friends I am sure I will iron them out real soon now.
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Claiming my Technorati Profile...

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 Friday, April 11, 2008

I quite literally just finished implementing some new blog software. I tinkered around with templates, CSS settings, and loads of other minor aspects of the software I chose to use. At the same time I made loads of changes to my web site, moved content to a new hosting service, edited DNS records with my registrar, and moved email servers. Whew!

So, now that I have just uploaded the content, it's time to work on getting Technorati, Feedburner and other services wired up. I also need to move content from my old "blog" to this new blog. And the old one was not so much a blog as a pile of code I cobbled together to list announcements and stuff, so there's a few dozen posts I need to move.

I thought about writing code and all that to push content into the new software... But honestly brute force will probably take less time. (Trust me, there's not that much content that would make an automated solution worthwhile.) The only downside I've seen is that while I can set the date for a post I can't set the time. So moving the old stuff over won't match the old date-time stamps. I'm on the fence on that. Maybe it will annoy me enough that I'll go ahead and write code to force everything to match up.

Anyway, after that, it'll be time to retire the old code and database and write some new code into my main site to pull in the latest five or so posts from the new blog. Not bad for an evangelism manager.

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 Wednesday, April 02, 2008

So I finally got past my lazy self and added dozens of events to my events database. I've listed all the Launch Events in the Central US region, as well as our local DevCares and ArcReady events. Check them out and sign up to attend one or more of those events.

I've also listed in Tech•Ed Developers and IT Professionals as well as PDC08.

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I haven't been out to check the new Visual Studio 2008 sites since Launch and thought that was poor form on my part.

So I hopped out there earlier today and was pleasantly surprised with some of the improvements. Even more impressive was the Silverlight-based UI I discovered for the Visual Studio Express site: nifty UI elements and navigation by area of interest, all with a spiffy Silverlight-based sheen. It's a really sharp site and you should check it out.

While you're there, if you haven't already downloaded one of the VS2008 Express editions, you should. There are loads of new capabilities in VS2008.

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