Section: Blogs
Trying to improve the standards compliance of my blog, but the asp:Calendar is getting in my way!
Dec 5, 2005 1 min.
I’ve been trying to fix some XHTML issues on my blog, but two pieces of technology are thwarting my plans…. first, there is the text editor in .Text (FreeTextBox) which appears to be making the first anchor or image tag in the post uppercase, even though I have its XHTML support enabled… (so my first link is , instead of ) and the second is the ASP.NET Calendar (1.1 framework version).
Finished “Knife of Dreams”, with a bit of sadness as usual
Dec 4, 2005 1 min.
Don’t misunderstand, I enjoyed the book… but just like watching an episode of your favorite TV show and knowing that it will be another week until you can see another (or watching the Pegasus episode of Battlestar Galactica, knowing that it will be months before you see the conclusion of that story), I’m always sad to see it end. I put off reading the book at all for quite some time, figuring that once I started I would neglect other responsibilities (including some sleep) until it was done, and I also thought that it would be good to go back and re-read #10, so that the story flowed better for me.
Added category elements to my RSS feed, since I wasn’t playing Xbox 360
Nov 26, 2005 3 min.
About 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 .
Nov 22, 2005 1 min.
Swung 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 when they opened and when the line was going to start… that is going to be a lot of disappointed folks…
Cover for the Xbox 360 book has been updated with my name and with our gamer tags …
Nov 19, 2005 1 min.
from Brian’s blog….
I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?
Nov 17, 2005 1 min.
Looking 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!”
Just spent way too much time fixing VB code coloring on MSDN2
Nov 16, 2005 2 min.
You 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).
Looks like I coded myself into a corner here…
Nov 14, 2005 1 min.
This 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?
Kent is gone… ok, not really “gone”, but gone from MSDN…
Nov 11, 2005 1 min.
It 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