Writing
Phew, that title sure is a mouthful… but it is kinda hard to describe the problem in so few words. I had just finished the primary work on a new customer’s website (http://www.BuyMyBatteries.com) and was trying to hook up the latest and greatest build of BlogEngine.Net (2.5) underneath it for the corporate blog. The challenge, …
Has putting YouTube videos on your website embarrassed you by being so bold as to insist on being in front of other elements on your website? This is a common problem seen across the Internet daily. However, just ‘cause main people suffer from this ailment doesn’t mean that you have to. The resolution to this …
I among many others, mourned the loss of Wave. While it had many fantastic features, I think it was exactly this broad feature-set that caused it’s early demise. One of the features in Wave that I thought was a killer app was the ability to easily hold group discussions while collaborating on documents. Well today, …
This Katamari game is a javascript implementation (interpretation?) of the Japanese video game Katamari Damacy which roughly translates to “clump spirit”. The point of the game, if there is a point, is to roll a sticky ball around and the more objects you pick up , the bigger the ball becomes and the bigger the …
This is a GREAT video that shows you how to use Webmaster Tools to do Search Engine Optimization on your own website. Watching this is probably the best 10 minutes that a website owner can spend. Learn about: Signing up for message forwarding to get real-time emails from Google about your site Check out Search …
Google announced today the timing for what we consider to be a HUGE change for Google Apps customers (that we talked about on October 1st): The consolidation of Google Apps accounts into the overall Google Accounts structure that control non-apps services (like Analytics, AdSense, Alerts, Reader, Earth, FeedBurner, Custom Search Engine, Checkout, Blogger). See the …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
