Yes I know, it’s a blogger’s cardinal sin to post about why he hasn’t posted in a while. But live with it. The irony is I’ve had so much to blog about. The reason I haven’t is because a while back I finally gave up on dasBlog and decided I’d switch to WordPress before I …
Mike Gunderloy gets fed up with Microsoft
A Fresh Cup Ok, for those who have been keeping up with Mike Gunderloy this is old news but I just ran across it. Mike is one of the most prolific writer/developers I know and one of those rare breed that can evidently learn new technologies in no time flat. Mike has been working with …
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Camtasia Studio’s Huge Missed Opportunity
Jon Udel is a big fan of using screencasts to instruct, and I’m a big fan of watching them when I want to learn something. I’d like to start doing some of my own. However, reading his post on screencasting tips today, I was reminded of how I can’t help but think that TechSmith is really …
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Clarifying my Microsoft Developer Division Rant, Redux
I made two posts recently discussing Microsoft’s Developer Division. Although I had strong feelings about the issues, my thoughts were still too unclear to be succinct. But writing clarifies thought and I had already waited too long to post so a-posting I went. Reading the comments it became clear I had muddled several issues: How …
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THESE GUYS MUST DIE!!!
I just noticed a Google ad out of the corner of my eye for Blog Submitter Pro (URL is http://www.marketersos.com/ but I will give them no Page Rank!) I googled it and found this review of Blog Submitter Pro by Vincent Rich! I was floored. Someone actually sells a product that is causing us bloggers …
Clean URLs in dasBlog
After many long years of being annoyed by the URLs for dasBlog, I finally decided to spend the several hours required to fix them. I am using ISAPI Rewrite which I’ve spoken about in the past to allow me to clean up the URLs for my blog here that is running dasBlog. The solution is …
Finally: Community Server Hosted Edition!
It’s about time! Teligent Systems is finally offering Community Server on a hosted basis! In my experience, trying to install Community Server a total of four times over the past so many years, and .Text before that, I must say it is the most infuriating and difficult to install application I’ve ever come across! The …
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The White Man’s Web 2.0 Club
After attending The Future Of Web Apps, I looked around for fellow attendee bloggers and while searching found Chris Messina’s post about the lack of diversity in the speaker lineup. Several commenters then started getting riled up to the level of a virtual lynch mob with comments like: Damned if I’m going to give hundreds …
A New Blog of Mine: Thoughts on Salesforce.com
Last week I mentioned I had several new projects on the burner, and one of them is my blog about Salesforce.com: Thoughts on Salesforce.com UPDATE: I sold this blog, late 2008 I think. For a pittance.