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Added category elements to my RSS feed, since I wasn't playing Xbox 360
Friday, November 25, 2005About a year or so back I added <category> elements to the MSDN RSS feeds, which seemed like an obvious addition, but it wasn't until recently that I noticed that my own feeds (coming out of my .Text 0.95 based blogging engine) didn't have categories specified in them at all. Not in the main feed or in the per-blog feeds... This seemed really odd to me, since much of the UI of the .Text posting page, editing page, and even the blog skins themselves is dedicated to the listing and selecting of categories. Obviously, categories are seen as important information [read more...]Share this -
Waiting for a 360
Monday, November 21, 2005Swung by Best Buy in Bellevue today, line stretched out from the store all the way around the parking lot and over to the near by Home Depot... tents, heating lamps, chairs... even hot food being brought in. The guy in the front of the line, who I believe will get his Xbox 360 from Bill Gates, had been waiting since Friday. Stopped by Fred Meyer tonight to print out a digital photo, asked the guy if they were getting any 360 buzz... they have 12 premium systems to sell, opening at 7am, and already over a 100 calls asking [read more...]Share this -
Cover for the Xbox 360 book has been updated with my name and with our gamer tags ...
Friday, November 18, 2005from Brian's blog.... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?
Wednesday, November 16, 2005Looking at this map, my first thought was "I wonder if this will lead to businesses cleaning their roof?", but then capitalism took over and I thought "hey, people could put ads on big roofs like that... it would be cool!" [read more...]Filed under | 4 comments »Share this -
Just spent way too much time fixing VB code coloring on MSDN2
Tuesday, November 15, 2005You may have already noticed this, but the current build of MSDN2 has a bug in the way it colors VB code snippets, as you can see here (scroll down, there are quite a few problems in the code snippet coloring, see how many you can spot!)... turns out the code wasn't handling comments right, text in quotes, and it didn't have a full list of the VB keywords (so MsgBox was not recognized, for example). I've fixed it all up now (I think) so that code will work its way through review and test then get added to some [read more...]Filed under | 3 comments »Share this -
Looks like I coded myself into a corner here...
Sunday, November 13, 2005This is the sort of thing that happens with large development teams, one team codes in 'fixes' that break someone else's work... I don't normally do this all by myself! I updated the Flairmaker to support Atom 0.3, then I updated my feeds to Atom 1.0 ... great. See the error, laugh at the coder... or will it be fixed by the time you click this? [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Kent is gone... ok, not really "gone", but gone from MSDN...
Friday, November 11, 2005It is a sad day for MSDN and Microsoft, Kent Sharkey (ASP.NET & Coding4Fun content strategist, coder of many of the coolest things on MSDN and the guy to whom I send entire projects full of not quite working code with the message "help!?!?") has left to become an independent consultant type guy... Expect MSDN to get a bit duller as of this moment :) Kent's official annoucement [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Gave a talk earlier today about how we built MSDN2...
Thursday, November 10, 2005I focused mainly on the Virtual Path Provider in ASP.NET 2.0, and how we use that to construct our pages on the new MSDN platform (visible live at http://msdn2.microsoft.com). I thought I should put up some links to additional information, starting with a link to the reference material currently available on the Virtual Path Provider. VirtualPathProvider Class (System.Web.Hosting) [read more...]Share this -
Just arrived for ASP.NET Connections...
Monday, November 07, 2005Landed in Vegas for the conference, talk is on Thursday.... I'll be talking about MSDN2.microsoft.com, but more specifically I'll be covering the use of the Virtual Page Provider feature in ASP.NET 2.0, so if that type of thing appeals to you, come by and check it out! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Duncan's Most Anticipated Xbox 360 games
Friday, November 04, 2005Brian and I have been spending a lot of our free time working on an upcoming Xbox 360 book (Xbox 360 for Dummies), which has resulted in me spending way too much time thinking about the day I will be able to pick up a box of my own to bring home. Looking forward to that day, and knowing that Brian and I have almost completely different tastes in games, I thought it would be interesting to list out the 5 games on the 360 I'm most looking forward to, and maybe Brian will do the same. I'm not [read more...]Share this
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