Just had to share this funny comment that came through my other blog. Not as a comment on a post but from the contact form. " hi dear kese hoooooo i learn C# but i can't understand what should i do please tell me "...

Yes, you are reading this on a dasBlog site and I love dasBlog, but I spent the Christmas holiday playing with the public beta of Graffiti and I really do think they have nailed it for a lightweight CMS/blogging system. Out of the box, it is really simple to use, but don't let it's simplicity fool you...

The DevLife blog posts for May 2005 - March 2007 are now being hosted on my personal site at www.thedatafarm.com/devlifeblog . Thanks to everyone at Ziff Davis and Ziff Davis Enterprise for rescuing the old posts and allowing me to continue hosting them....

Ann DeMarle is the director of the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College in Vermont. She has started blogging at http://emergentmediacenter.blogspot.com and I look forward to her great insights! I was honored to be invited by Ann to participate in a Degree Advisory Council for this program....

I spent a part of Thanksgiving day updating my blog to 2.0 (written in ASP.NET 2.0). One of the reasons was that my host ( ORCS Web ) has been having big problems with my blog app (not like I have the kind of traffic that Scott Hanselman gets on his dasblog blog), but still there's enough and it was...

My DevLife blog that has been on the DevSource blog since June 2005, has been consolidated wtih the other Ziff-Davis blogs onto Movable Type. The old blog was on an OLD version of .Text and the comnent spam had gotten way out of control. I asked if they could just update to Community Server, but it made...

DasBlog is an open source project, so I need to be patient while waiting for a response to my query on the forums. In the meantime, perhaps someone else has experienced this and knows the cause and resolution. Since Sunday, my blog has been throwing a wierd error that is causing the events log to bloat...

I've been getting a new type of comment spam on my other blog. The spam is a statement that is very coherent and totally relevant to the post, but then at the end has a link to a page that is filled with a huge list of links to other pages on the site - all for the sake of trackbacks. My guess is that...

Like many, I have been overwhelmed by the full msdn blog list and realized that I don't need to have so many blogs on topics I can't focus on at all in my feed. So I finally did it. I removed the feed and have subscribed explicitly to a bunch of individual blogs. Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

Wonder why I didn't know you had a baby? Wrote a book? Released your product? Changed jobs? So many blogs, so little time.... How do you keep up with your own blog list? [ Read more ... ] [A DevLife post] Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

One of the nice things about having a smart client blogging app that let's me store posts is that I can write to my hearts content about how I feel about what is going on in the Gulf Coast and rant to my hearts content about the government's slow and deadly response. I can get it out of my system and...

Out of curiousity, I have added Google Adsense to my site. I hope nobody is offended. For some reason, it seems only to come up with ads related to blogging. If I point to a post with Christian Weyer's name, then I get Christian Blogging. Sheesh. I have selected the "pay per click" model and have earned...

Well, the big problem with a conference filled with bloggers is that EVERYONE is blogging about it and I have NO clue where to start finding out how the day went and what came out of it without pouring through hundreds of blogs. Can you say information overload? When I find a good thread to begin on...

I first heard about blogging listening to Chris Lydon a bunch of years ago. In fact, here is a link to the very show , from May of 2000! I was definitely fascinated by that show and actually signed up for a blog on blogger.com that day (which I only ever put two posts in as I recall). It was a few years...

Thanks to Scott Hanselman for hunting down and fixing what he referred to as a " latent and **HORRIBLE** bug " :-) that surfaced in the latest version of dasBlog. It was mucking up the RSS feeds when you were filtering on a category. For example, my VTdotNETFeed RSS was randomly selecting a handful of...

If this was near me (NYC or Boston) I would definitely make the effort to attend the one day BlogHer Conference . Even though I am not very political, I am very interested in the voices of women in the blogging world - especially technical women. How we represent ourselves? Do we just be a techie or...

I finally figured out why the category RSS Feed that I feed to the VTdotNET site doesn't have anything recent on it. If you look at the VTdotNETFeed category on my blog, you can see all of those posts. But if you look at the RSS output , there is a huge hole of missing posts. I'm not sure if it's something...

Speaking of Markus, I just subscribed to his travel blog and it's great reading! Markus and I end up in the same place quite often. In the past year alone: Montreal for DevTeach, Redmond for Tablet DevLab, San Franciso for Windows Anywhere, Orlando for TechEd, DevConnections in Las Vegas and SysCon in...

I was just cruising around Leon's blog to get a link to one of my favorite posts (" You are not Inadequate ") and started realizing something. I started reading his blog because it was (and still is) hilarious. But there are also so many really deep, thoughtful, interesting posts on there. For example...

This is a side benefit of having blogger friends from around the world. Once in a blue moon, Malek Kemmou , writes his blog posts in his own language and I get this beautiful artwork in my feedreader: I have no idea what it says, but that's okay. Another thing I love about his blog (besides all the usual...

okay - there just went the folder with all of my blog images I am downloading fast and furiously To whatever a**hole is doing this: Thanks so very much. It would be nice to be able to get some billable work done today. Help my clients. You know, the little things in life. TechEd Speakers Charity Auction...

Can someone email me my posts from today - maybe they are still in your aggregator?? There are a bunch missing, but now I think everything is all cleared up on my server and with my blog update. Thanks!! TechEd Speakers Charity Auction http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5587400881...

Too much comment spam - server problems, etc etc. I am going to do a clean install of the latest dasblog and maybe captcha as well. Ahh, Sundays. I have always gotten gobs of referral spam, but since I don't show referrers, I didn't worry. But now the comments spam is coming on fast and furiously....

My DevLife blog on the DevSource website is now live. It is awaiting it's skin, and I've asked for Captcha ... which one should we use?? But I have started posting things to there as well. Here's how it's gonna work. When I post something there, I will post a bit of it on this blog. Click on the text...

Sometimes when I read blogs (and I'm talking about those from the .NET community) I think that the male bloggers (you know, that 99% of the .NET bloggers) are definitely writing for guys, when in the context of a technical post, they make some joke about their sexual prowress or the hottie quality of...

I hate seeing this happen! [With her permission,] I am copying and pasting Heather's post here because she might remove this explanation as well. She already chose to remove the original post. I can understand, I had to do this once, too , although I didn't get hate mail, just a lot of people who wanted...

I noticed a bunch of test posts coming through my aggregator from MS bloggers. Then I went over to weblogs.asp.net and saw they were gone, although they still exist at blogs.msdn.com. I also remember noticing blogs.technet.com earlier this week. So Josh Ledgard and Robert Scoble explain the changes....

See what blogger's are nearby......

well, it seems that Jeremy Wright's EBay auction to blog for $ was so successful he has hired a full time employee and starting up InsideBlogging.com . Very interesting. Here's a little more on his take on this. thanks to Robert Kloosterhuis for the link Posted from BLInk!...

Thanks to James for pointing at this hilarious BoingBoing article on MSN Spaces and an odd mix of vocabulary checks. Posted from BLInk!...

Funny you should mention it, Dare . I signed up for a space and started playing with it to see if I could jam msn spaces into BLInk! Best I could see is emailing them using the mobile settings. So I can do that from BLInk! but not sure if it's worth the effort since you can just use Outlook! :-) Posted...

www.sevendaysvt.com (they only leave stories there for one week) just featured local political blogger, Jerome Armstrong ( www.myDD.com ) of Howard Dean blogging fame, on in the popular, independent, Village Voice for Vermont-esque weekly paper. Paul Wilson mentioned that his blog was featured in the...

(update: check out Dare's post on NewzCrawler (and others) as Denial of Service clients) There must be a few people who have their aggregators set to check rss feeds every 10 seconds or something. I very rarely look at my stats because they don't really tell me much. But I have to say I was a little...

I have two posts that make me very happy. One is a post on a Crystal Reports problem that I had a hard time figuring out and did not find help online for. I frequently see referrers coming in to that post where people are googling the same error message that I had received. Hopefully my post has answered...

I used to enjoy your blog, but not anymore. You don't provide any useful or knowledgable content anymore, and who wants to keep up with your 15 posts per day? If you quit posting useless information so much, maybe you'd have time to to accomplish something and actually scale it down to one useful blog...

Those of you who do not stray far from the weblogs.asp.net feeds may not know about the larger blogging world around us. One of the big (and innovative) players is Six Apart , creators and owners of the MovableType weblog software and the TypePad weblog service. There was a recent shakeup when SixApart...

I loaded my current opml from SharpReader up to Dave Winer's “Share your OPML” site and it is linked under BlogRoll here on my site. You do have to log in to that site to people's OPMLs. I've also been fiddling a bit with my site configuration and made just a few slight changes. No biggie...

Thanks to a teaser from Scott Hanselman , and a helpful line of code he sent, I was able to add the archive feature to my dasBlog site. The line of code Scott sent was <%newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths()%> which was all I got from him, so it was a good puzzle! Here's the rest. dasBlog has a subfolder...

Thanks to Omar Shahine and all of the others who have worked so hard on this project. It's what I use for this blog. Read more here on Omar's weblog , which points to the release notes, new features and bug fixes as well as the many “flavors“ of the new version that can be used. As of now...

Not that I thought I was the first person to think about this or anything :-) ... I just had to get it off my chest! But Scott Watermasysk assures us that they are way ahead of us and we'll see some really great changes this summer....

When there were only 200 people on dotNetWeblogs, there were already some problems with too much content and a good chunk of it was personal, when I believe the original mission of the blogs was to be about .Net. I learned quickly to stick to the .net focus after a few weeks of totally random “here...

I am a little saddened by this “conversation” between two people who have wonderful and intriguing, voices, similar in some ways, different in others ... Liz Lawley and Shelley Powers ....

Geeze - first it's someone on www.Geekswithblogs.net experimenting with a p_rn (don't want google) rss feed yesterday. Now this afternoon, just coincidentally I get this in my aggregator. I'm not offended or anything, it just seemed kinda funny. I didn't circle Patch your.... on purpose......

When I moved away from weblogs.asp.net, I was adamant that I wanted to be able to cross-post back to there. That way I could write whatever the heck I wanted here and then push only .net related stuff over there . I started to get frustrated by having a split personality, by having comments there and...

I saw on Halley Suitt's blog this a.m . and was reminded in an email from O'Reilly press this p.m. that Joe Trippi just got added to O'Reilly's Emerging Tech Conference next week. They have a whole day called the Digital Democracy Teach-In . I read somewhere that it is Joe Trippi that people run to for...

The Daily Grind. Admit it. You (developers) all read it and this is how you read it. First you do a quick scan to see if your name is in there - if you actually wrote something (comment/software/utility) worthy of being listed in one of the most valuable online developer resources. Then and only then...

Recently, Robert Scoble has shared his thoughts on community blogs and his preference for independent blogs. Robert posted his OPML this morning and I went and took a looksee. Couldn't help but notice that although I have moved my blog (yes though I am still cross-posting SOME of my content) he is not...

Yes you read that title correctly. I just learned about this class through it's instructor, Nancy Pera who's blog “BlahBlahBlog” has the skinny on this class . Don't you just love that name? BlahBlahBlog! “...professional development course on blogging-- The Reading-Writing Connection...

Shelley Powers is in a quandry that comes from becoming what is oft-referred to as an “A-List” blogger. She has definitely risen to the top of the pool of a gazillion bloggers because she has a strong, intelligent and fascinating voice. However, that voice carries a lot of weight and Shelley...

So this trick of naughty websites to add themselves into your referrals had affected one post of mine on my other blog . There are a variety of porn sites referrals hitting just one post of mine which is about Scott Guthrie on DotNetRocks. I saw something in Joy's blog a while back on this. Hmmm - I...

I find it interesting to watch the larger scope of how blogging in our community is evolving. A few to note: Shelley Powers bags the blog roll (which made me realize that I still haven't bothered “creating” mine on this site after almost a month), removal of comment options to many blogs...

Here are two things that I noticed about the blogger and metaweblog api's that were of interest that I have to look further into. First, the metaweblog passes up a combination of strings and structures. I want to experiment with passing structs to a webservice. In both blogger and metaweblog, one of...

I noticde dasblog.com a few weeks ago and wondered why newtelligence was wasting their time with webhosting and since I hadn't seen an announcement, did not mention it myself. The real site for dasBlog is dasBlog.NET. This morning I see this from Clemens Vasters assuring us that this is just some unknown...

Today's NPR Commentary by the ever-enlightened and very entertaining poet, Andrei Codrescu , talked about blogging. I have been a fan of Codrescu's for years, though I can't say his take on blogging is too flattering! But that's okay by me. Listen here . Commentator Andrei Codrescu talks about a spider...

I haven't done this myself yet, but as per Clemens : The Releases section over at the GotDotNet workspace has three variants of v1.5: "Source ZIP" with the code, "Web Files" with the runtime files (to update existing installs and do manual installs) and "Web Setup" which is an MSI to install the web...

Omar Shahine, in my comments, says “tell me more...”. So with the presumption that he hasn't read my blog previously...here's a little history. On my dotnetweblog check my tablet category . You will see that I've been writing some business applications for a tablet as well as playing with...

NOTE: IMAGES ARE NOT CROSS-POSTING - PLEASE GO TO MY REAL BLOG TO SEE THIS STUFF!! www.julialermaninc.com/blog ) This is my new bogging tablet p.c.app. Can you read my handwriting? And what abort linking to my user group ? or a graphic link? e' have to copy t paste my html, and upload my little inks...

(NOTE: IMAGES ARE NOT CROSS-POSTING - PLEASE GO TO MY REAL BLOG TO SEE THIS STUFF!! www.julialermaninc.com/blog ) Before I post my tablet blog - I am just using the web based part of dasBlog right now to show you these two images. These are thumbnails, click for larger view. This is just my experimentation...

Wow! Lots of “tests posts” on the dotnetweblogs yesterday. And did you notice who they were from? A whole bunch of folks from Microsoft. That's pretty cool that this is where they want to be and it says a lot about this blogsite as well as the great tool that Scott has built. This morning...

Danah Boyd , a completely hip chick - geek, sociologist,academic - who blogs over on misbehaving.net was profiled in a NY Times article this past Saturday. Danah is an academic who is very involved in social software and is putting her academic eye on phenomena like Friendster. NY Times says “Her...

In the comments of this post , I was asked a few questions about dasBlog administration. I had all of the same questions. Many were answered in the Message Boards of the DasBlog Community Workspace on GotDotNet . But to directly answer Martin and Steve's Questions: Steve: The trick for cross-posting...

Well, if you found your way here then you read part I over there. Thanks to Clemens and Omar and everyone for creating dasBlog and answering my dumb questions and also thanks to Bill, a support guy at Alentus (my web host) who went above and beyond the call of duty. I asked for someone to look at the...

I am moving my weblog to www.julialermaninc.com/blog . Though I do prefer [what to me is] the security of having my ramblings stored in a database, I have chosen to use DasBlog which allows me to cross-post and therefore continue to maintain my blog on weblogs.asp.net . There are things I would like...