Daily Archives: February 14, 2005

Need searching for your website?

Tools

Congrats to Scott Cate and company on a killer feature of EasySearchASP.NET. The tool lets you incorporate a search engine very easily right into your own website. But the new feature is “hints”. It is REALLY cool. You can see it best right on the EasySearchASP.NET site by searching for something on that site. On the home page is a search box. Just go start typing in it…..

Cool, huh?

You don’t have to rely on visitors knowing how to use google’s site:www.mysite.com parameter to search your website.

I like it. But the hints is super duper slick.

http://www.AcehAid.org

ahh – I can blog it now -Microsoft scoops up Shawn Van Ness

Community Cheerleading

I loved meeting Shawn finally at the WMA conference in San Francisco. While we chatted at the Varnish Gallery (where the Tablet party was being held – excellent choice, by the way, Elliot!) I let him know that I had started pestering my MVP leads (plural because I refer to my current and my former) that he should be an MVP, maybe C#. Although he is known for many tablet pc development articles, he is a whiz bang developer and I’m always impressed by his wealth  (and depth) of knowledge in responding to many questions on the Developmentor list that I am a voyeur on. Well, I guess we can say “great minds think alike” – because he told me that it’s a little late for MVP since he had just committed to swallowing the red pill. He is going to work at Microsoft and will have a very very cool job – as the PM on the team responsible for integrating Tablet PC platform into Avalon and WinFX.

Although I’m a little embarrassed (though highly flattered) by something he says in this post, I need to link to it anyway so you can read more…

Congrats Shawn!

http://www.AcehAid.org