Digging My Blog

I know I'm joining this tirade party late. Joe Wirtley has preached it before (in fact almost exactly a year ago) and I know I've heard others proclaim the same. I'm a convert after bumping into a ton of people at CodeMash who I think that I know (from their blogs) but not with absolute certainty because...

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...

First, hats off to Lebron James - he single-handedly carried the Cavaliers in the fourth quarter and overtime tonight. Truly amazing performance. I haven't seen a performance like that since ... well, I hate to say it, but ... since MJ did that in many memorable playoff games for the Bulls. He's no MJ...

This is not another post linking to a bunch of A-list bloggers' opinions on Tim O'Reilly's suggested Blogger Code of Conduct, though Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has an opinion that I agree with for the most part. Here is my code of conduct: It's my blog, I'll write whatever I want. I will allow anonymous...

Over on my TheBestWebStuff blog I recently added an Advertising Disclaimer to the main navigation of the site. I felt that since I had recently added RSS ads, banner ads, text ads, and I would soon be venturing into paid reviews as part of my research into the various advertising networks and opportunities...

If I have learned one thing from Dave Burke , the guy who "runs just about the most polite blog in the entire blogosphere" , is that you should reply to each and every person who takes the time to leave a comment on your blog. Daniel from Daily Blog Tips suggests to Send Thank You Emails to each first...

I was looking through comments marked as possible spam a few minutes ago and found a wonderful comment left by Wendy Wonder about dogs eating feces. Those comment spammers are getting pretty creative. After removing the spam links from her post I went ahead and published the comment. You can see it here...

I'm an avid reader of Rick Segal's blog, The Post Money Value . I'm don't read any other start-up blogs or VC blogs, but I like Rick's writing style and point of view. Because of his Microsoft background and VC interest in technology and specifically the web a lot of the things he has to say interest...

This is what Joe Wirtley looks like This is what Michael Eaton looks like Joe Wirtley recently wrote a post explaining why you should have your picture on your blog . I agree with Joe. I would never have known what Michael Eaton looked like so that I could introduce myself to him at the Ann Arbor Code...

My CodeMash co-presenter, former boss, .NET architect and all around nice guy (but don't tell him I told you so), Joe Wirtley, has finally started blogging with a vengeance (10 posts in 8 days) and he also redesigned his personal site . Joe has lots of good software development anecdotes and experiences...

For those of you not into Community Server (shame !!!) and don't follow Jose Lema (but do follow me?) I have a couple of things to say to you: 1. what the heck is wrong with you !?!?! 2. Hi, Mom. 3. Jose is putting together a great series on building a mod (or maybe a mod engine) for Community Server...

The always controversial and sometimes correct ( see his 10 keys to happiness ), Justice Gray, reveals something new : " bald people cannot be trusted . ... bald people wander the earth with one purpose and one purpose only - to kill you and steal your sultry mane for their own" Hmmm. That...

Unlike this post , this post , and the hundreds of others yesterday - the post you are reading is not a test post using Windows Live Writer . Technorati Tags: Windows Live Writer...

I promise that this isn't turning into an SEO blog, but I mentioned before that I have some SEO interest, as we all should. Matt Cutts , Google's SEO insider, put together several nice videos this week where he answers email questions and provides tips like: qualities of a good site SEO Myths Dynamic...

Today I started a new blog site: TheBestWebStuff.com Along with building web sites I have also become the unofficial system administrator, software installer, hardware installer, network technician, and basic troubleshooter for all my friends and family. Over the years I have put in many hours helping...

I recently found Sachin Rekhi's blog: Sachin Rekhi's Ramblings - On Mastering Database Development with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals . I don't remember where I found the first link to the blog, but it was probably through Mike Gunderloy's Daily Grind or Jason Haley's Interesting...

As a follow up to my comments about the Performancing extension for Firefox that Dave Burke quoted today in the Community Server Daily News I put together a little Flash video to demonstrate how to setup the extension to post to a Community Server 2.0 blog. (Click the image above to view the Flash video...

I'm sitting here doing some multi-tasking this morning, babysitting the running of some build scripts remotely (through VPN and PCAnywhere) on a client's dev server and catching up on my blog reading. Remember that I was offline for about 10 days so there were a bunch piled up. To be fair there were...

A couple of days ago I was wondering if there were rules about that sort of thing. Apparently there are rules ! Thanks, Phil Haack , for the explanation. Technorati Tags: Blogging...