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Twitter Plugin for Windows Live Writer Updated for OAUTH

Ever since the oauth-calypse back in August, I’ve been really missing my this plugin for Windows Live Writer. WLW is, in my mind, the best way to manage and compose your blog posts regardless of the platform you are working on (WordPress, BlogEngine.Net, SubText, etc) however the Microsoft-built plugin that I relied upon on every …

Managing Transition From Google Apps Accounts to Google Accounts

There has always been a challenge associated with differentiating between Google Apps Accounts and Google Accounts. One of the big challenges is that Google doesn’t recognize Google Apps Accounts as Google Accounts for most of their services. Back in May, Google announced plans to change all that. In the fall of 2010, Google is planning …

Great Moments in Server Error Messages

Just got this great 500 Internal Server Error on YouTube today (linked to from a Tweet from @mattcutts) and laughed so hard I figured I had to share it. I can’t wait to run into this band of highly trained monkeys some day when next I’m in Mountain View…

How To Extend ASPDNSF Product Name Field

On of the nice features of AspDotNetStorefront is that it supports multiple languages right out of the box. It does this by storing the multiple locale phrases as XML fragments inside the particular field. So, in the case of a product name, this means stuffing each of the multi-lingual product names into the Name field …

Delay in Google Indexing of Google Sites?

Been in touch with a couple of friends that have converted over to Google Sites from their old websites and we’ve added them to Google Webmaster Tools (so we can generate a sitemap) and submitted that sitemap back to Google Webmaster Tools. In the past this has always been a pretty quick route to get …

AspDotNetStorefront Acquired by Vortx

Wow, just when you think certainly areas of your life are pretty stable… Vortx, a leading integrator of AspDotNetStorefront software in Ashland, OR,  announced yesterday that they had acquired the Ohio-based ecommerce company. One interesting tidbit that can be found on the press release is that they are planning a marketplace of plug-ins. Hopefully this …