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Search Engine Optimization Tweaks over the long weekend
Saturday, November 24, 2007My team builds a fair number of community sites including Channel 8 (for Students), TechNet Edge (for IT Pros), Channel 10 (for enthusiasts, power users and gamers), Mix Online (for web developers and designers) and the original site... Channel 9 (aimed mostly at developers) ... and we've recently starting putting out sites on a new code base. One of the changes in that new code base was a move to an AJAX style interface for viewing lists of posts on the page. We like the way this works for paging through lists of entries, comments, etc... but we have known [read more...]Share this -
XSLT and Alternating Rows
Friday, August 17, 2007Saw this today (it is over a year old though) on Roger Hartford's blog; XSLT alternating rows In an XSLT template tag you can simulate the same functionality as in GridView/DataGrid "AlternatingRowClass" property using this syntax:<div class="MyClass"> <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 != 1"> <xsl:attribute name="class">AnotherClass</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if></div>It's that simple!Roger I'm a big fan of XSLT based processing... and it is great to see ways to get exactly the results you want without additional server or client side code... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Put up a REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data
Saturday, May 26, 2007My twitter app uses a web service hosted on my site to get all the necessary Xbox Live info.... way more than the twitter app actually uses. This is a SOAP API, located here: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/XboxInfo.asmx I know that some people prefer a more RESTful API though, so I also have another 'page' that you can call with a straight GET request and just pass the gamertag in as a query string parameter: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/GetXboxInfo.aspx?GamerTag=Festive+Turkey Enjoy! [read more...]Filed under | 31 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 -
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 -
OPML for the on10.net team
Thursday, September 14, 2006I've created a quick and simple list of the 10 team's various blog feeds... so if you'd like to follow along with their personal musings (including mine) then you can grab the OPML file here. [read more...]Share this -
Windows Live Writer is a spammer!!
Monday, September 11, 2006I think we have a real design flaw here... one of those 'neat ideas on your dev box' that maybe shouldn't have really been implemented. Check out this Technorati search for Temporary Post Used For Style Detection to see what I'm talking about. It isn't even something I get a choice about (every time I go to a different machine and configure my blog, I get a test post...). For more on the Window Live Writer, check out this video on on10.net :) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
How embarrassing, comments were broken on my new blog for over a day!
Saturday, September 09, 2006Fixed now though... sorry to anyone who posted a comment (and received a nice "your comment was posted!") ... it was lost into the magical ether. [read more...]Share this -
WPF/Avalon seems so easy, it might be time for me to try it out :)
Wednesday, September 06, 2006I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on "Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask", which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup. Hmm... now that I finally have Vista up and running, it might be worth giving it a try. [read more...]Filed under | 2 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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