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Tracking RSS Feed Statistics
Tuesday, September 04, 2007A few of my friends and co-workers have jumped on the FeedBurner bandwagon, and I've been pretty impressed with the stats they've been gathering. I'm not willing to send my readers off to someone else's service though (even though there are some reasonably safe ways to do that), so I started to think about how best to gather similar info myself. One idea would be to ship the IIS logs from my site back to my PC on a regular basis and run them through a LogParser script that would figure out all the stats for me... but that seems [read more...]Share this -
Cool gadget using sparklines to show your RSS stats from Feedburner
Sunday, May 06, 2007A friend of mine has written this google gadget in true mashup style... it uses an API from Feedburner, a service to produce the graphics, and works async to update itself right in the browser ... and produces a sweet little graphic about your current # of subscribers. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Trackbacks and URL matching
Thursday, April 19, 2007I recently noticed a bug in the trackback code on Channel 10, some sites were failing to send us trackbacks, even though we were receiving trackbacks from other sources and those sites were happily trackbacking (I'm just annoying the spell checker today) other blogs. Turns out the problem appears to be in our RDF block on our blog pages. On a page like this, the RDF block contains the following element:dc:identifier="http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/" This uses the permalink URL that we provide for this page, but of course there are several other urls that work to get to the same resource including http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/default.aspx, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Check out the new Community Bar on on10.net
Tuesday, November 28, 2006One of my jobs over the past couple of weeks has been to build a javascript based 'toolbar' that could run across the top of on10.net and show folks headlines aggregated from a variety of Microsoft Community sites. So, along with a bunch of help from Adam and Erik, I managed to get it finished and deployed today. You can see it on top of the page on 10 If it overlaps with the logo for you, try forcing a refresh using ctrl+f5 in IE... or just picking reload/refresh in whatever browser you use... the css had to change to [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors
Wednesday, September 27, 2006I've been pondering categories vs. tags in blogs, in my sites (such as http://on10.net) we've completely done away with the concept of categories as distinct entities from tags, which works fine on the site but is causing me a bit of a headache when I look at blog editing and blog editing APIs. I've enabled the metaweblogapi on my sites so that standard blog editing tools like performancing, windows live writer, etc... can be used by our staff to post entries, and I've used the 'categories' area of that API to represent tags. This has caused me two issues: [read more...]Filed under | 6 comments »Share this -
The on10/Channel 9 Dev team have another dev focused video up
Wednesday, August 16, 2006I even got to be the 'preview' image! Check this out to hear a bit more about our design and implementation of on10.net, and for some more info on our plans around on10.net going forward and for moving Channel 9 on to this new code base. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Windows Live Writer
Wednesday, August 16, 2006on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What's cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SDK (wrote some plug-in code last night, super easy) and it ships with a bunch of .NET assemblies that I'm about to go spelunking through... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
on10.net's tagging gets a little bit more 'connected'
Thursday, April 06, 2006Erik extended our tag pages on on10.net a bit, check out the full details here as part of our on10.net news blog. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Found some pre-existing source code to send test pingbacks
Wednesday, April 05, 2006I wrote my own for Trackbacks, which I used to incorporate trackbacks into http://on10.net, but Geoff provides one on his blog (that doesn't appear to support comments, but does support trackbacks, so I thought I had better blog about it to thank him) that does both. Silly me, I hadn't built pingback support into on10.net, thinking that Trackbacks would handle most cases... but it turns out that many sites (including wordpress) only send pingbacks... oh well, at least it will be there after our next sprint. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Learn a bit about how on10.net was made
Monday, March 13, 2006Interview with the dev team (including me) is up on Channel 9 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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