Blogging
This is just a fairly pointless rant on twitter usage, so if it don’t fall within your sphere of interest, stop reading now! :) A while back I wrote a post about starting to twitter. I’m starting to get a hang of it now. The thing that seems a little conflicted in my mind is what people are using it for. Some, including myself, use it as micro blogging. That is writing short posts that are to short (and insignificant) to be their own blog post. The other camp simply uses it as the MSN Messenger status message with...
This have been my little weekend project this weekend (ok, some Christmas preparations to).
Background
As some of you know I play underwater rugby. The communication from the Swedish Underwater Rugby Association to it’s members is mainly through the news page on their site’s news page: http://www.ssdf.se/t3.aspx?p=51459 (in Swedish). This page is only exposing HTML and does not expose an rss-feed (they should have used SharePoint). My problem is that I never remember to visit the site with regular intervals, so I miss out on stuff.
Approach
As I truly am a RSS junkie, that’s what I wanted. To be able to...
Everybody is talking about twitter, tweet this and tweeting that. And I haven’t really got the point yet. So this Saturday during a Chili cook out my friends Mårten and Johan tried to explain it to me. They did a job good enough to make me give it a try anyway. So I’m now on http://twitter.com/nippe I haven’t said a twittering word yet, I think I’m going to listen for a while first to get the gist of it. So I got an account what’s the next thing you do. See if you can find some...
Hard disk failure, becoming a father and some nasty lung embolus sh**t has kept me offline and my server in a broken state. (No it’s not my lungs) This is actually my first hard disk failure ever so I was kinda taken by it. Tough I managed to extract the blog database under some heavy cpr. You can say my backup strategy was... eh... non existing. Anyway it’s up and running now in a virtual environment for the time being, until I get my hands on some hardware.
Live Writer just went Beta 2 and is available for download (this post is writtin in it). One of the new features is SharePoint compability. Check it out: http://writer.live.com/
This blog is running SubText as blog engine. It works great, the biggest thing I'm missing is stats. I don't have many readers but it's fun to know just how few they are. So first step in this was to let FeedBurner handle the distribution of my RSS feed and get some simple stats on that. The next step was to get some stats on the actual blog. I signed up for Google Analytics when they first released it for testing, but haven't used it much since. Now I thought why not put it to the test. To get it collecting data...
Sooo, this blog been quiet far to long now. I've been on vacation and mostly disconnected. So this week has been mostly about starting working and catching up on mail, feeds etc. There has been happening a lot of stuff. For one Windows Live Writer came out in beta (this is by the way my first post using it). Looks really good so far. Has a plugin framework so I expect we'll see a lot of those in the future. Seems like Subtext 1.9 "Daedelus" was released just today! Really cool, I'm going to upgrade this weekend. Big up to...
As I wrote in my previous post I changed my blogging software. In order to migrate all posts and comments from my previous blog i wrote a little program to do it. I did not read a lot of documentation on how to do this, strictly a trail and error approach.
I started out by looking for what web services the different blog systems exposed by doing a file search for *.asmx and just pointing my browser to then to have a look at the API's.
For dasBlog the one that cauth my eye was /SyndicationService.asmx and for SubText it was the...
So, I've just changed my blogging software from dasBlog to SubText. Why? Hum, cause I felt like change. I tried to install SubText, wich by the way was almost to easy, and I liked what i saw. Change is good for you!
I'll keep the old blog available for a while at http://www.nnihlen.com/dasBlog until I'm sure I haven't missed anything in the migration process. Speaking of migrating I wrote a little hack for doing exactly that wish I will be publishing on my(this) blog soon.
I do apologize to thoose of you syndicating my blog (all 3 of ya..) :).
HAHAHAHA! Seems my blog is pretty evil:
How's your blog comparing?
Found a, for me, new intresting agile related blog: Cory
Foy [via Roy Osherove].
So, finally got around to update this blog to the latest release of dasblog (1.8
Gold). Now I'm hurrying away to a wedding but when I get back I'll probably
play around with the new themes to I find one I like.
Had small problems with the upgrade, but nothing big (that I discovered so far anyway
:S)
-- Nick
I haven't exactly spammed this blog over the last couple of weeks, have I. The reason
for that is that I'm about to get married soon so I'm planning my own wedding, helping
a couple of friends with theirs and we have a new project at work, my client is trying
to get a new CRM system up and running in about three weeks(!). Well, here's a little
bit of this and that anyway.
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July in Sweden is a month when almost everyone (except me) is on vacation and Sweden
takes a break for a while. However working during this period is actually pretty sweet.
I get time to do things I been putting off all year, all those low priority issues.
OK, so it's quite depressing to when all your friends are on holiday. Anyway started
writing a blog post about a TDD revelation I had a while...
I'm just starting out with
dasBlog (and blogging to as a matter of fact). dasBlog where apealing to me because
there is no database needed, a real simple install. However I ran into a little problem
trying to access the comments page I got an exception:System.NullReferenceException:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.CommentViewBox.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
...