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The code for my blog site is now available on codeplex.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2007For anyone who is interested in using the code behind this site for their own blog, or who just finds reading code to be a fun pastime, you can go to http://www.codeplex.com/oxite to check it out. Of course, there are other blog engines up there, including blog engine .NET (which appears to be very highly supported and recommended by many folks), if you are in the market for some free blogging code. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Tracking RSS Feed Statistics
Tuesday, September 04, 2007A few of my friends and co-workers have jumped on the FeedBurner bandwagon, and I've been pretty impressed with the stats they've been gathering. I'm not willing to send my readers off to someone else's service though (even though there are some reasonably safe ways to do that), so I started to think about how best to gather similar info myself. One idea would be to ship the IIS logs from my site back to my PC on a regular basis and run them through a LogParser script that would figure out all the stats for me... but that seems [read more...]Share this -
The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring
Thursday, June 28, 2007Hey folks, I work as the dev lead for Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online and other sites. We build community sites for Microsoft using video, audio and text blogging and we build them using the latest .NET technologies. If you are into web development, if you have a passion for design and user experience, and if you really rock at AJAX, Javascript, CSS, C# and ASP.NET .... then this is the job for you :) The Developer and Platform Evangelism Team is hiring a software design engineer to join the team that builds and extends Channel 9, Channel 10 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Connect your Xbox 360 Gamertag to Twitter
Friday, May 11, 2007UPDATE: I've updated this application since the original version, addressing most of the 'known issues' listed belowhey folks, the first version of my xbox to twitter app is done (at least done enough to share!) ... Install the .NET Framework 2.0 (if you don't have it) Install the app Run it (from the "Duncan Mackenzie" folder in your Start Menu) Right click the little 'twitter' icon on your notification area, pick Settings ... enter in your Twitter Email Address Twitter Screen Name Twitter Password Gamertag check "Updates Enabled" Click OK to save these settings... Now fire up your Xbox 360 [read more...]Filed under | 19 comments »Share this -
Cool gadget using sparklines to show your RSS stats from Feedburner
Sunday, May 06, 2007A friend of mine has written this google gadget in true mashup style... it uses an API from Feedburner, a service to produce the graphics, and works async to update itself right in the browser ... and produces a sweet little graphic about your current # of subscribers. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Trackbacks and URL matching
Thursday, April 19, 2007I recently noticed a bug in the trackback code on Channel 10, some sites were failing to send us trackbacks, even though we were receiving trackbacks from other sources and those sites were happily trackbacking (I'm just annoying the spell checker today) other blogs. Turns out the problem appears to be in our RDF block on our blog pages. On a page like this, the RDF block contains the following element:dc:identifier="http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/" This uses the permalink URL that we provide for this page, but of course there are several other urls that work to get to the same resource including http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/default.aspx, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Kent Sharkey's been a busy guy
Wednesday, April 04, 2007Kent's blog is back online and in one of his recent posts he updates us on all the projects he's been working since he left Microsoft (where we were both working at MSDN as content strategists)... tons of cool stuff, definitely worth reading through and following some links. Wednesday, April 04, 2007 # What has been occupying my time It's been about a nice round 17 months (give or take) since I left Microsoft. Since then, Microsoft shipped some software, people have argued, and the world continues its revolution, rotation and other movements.I know all of you were wondering, "What's [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Have you created an Avatar on Gravatar?
Thursday, September 28, 2006Some people have great ideas, like Tom Werner's Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) site... a single place on the web to upload an avatar that any blog software can then retrieve using a fairly easily constructed URL. Neat stuff, I think I'll add it to my site. [read more...]Share this -
Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors
Wednesday, September 27, 2006I've been pondering categories vs. tags in blogs, in my sites (such as http://on10.net) we've completely done away with the concept of categories as distinct entities from tags, which works fine on the site but is causing me a bit of a headache when I look at blog editing and blog editing APIs. I've enabled the metaweblogapi on my sites so that standard blog editing tools like performancing, windows live writer, etc... can be used by our staff to post entries, and I've used the 'categories' area of that API to represent tags. This has caused me two issues: [read more...]Filed under | 6 comments »Share this -
OPML for the on10.net team
Thursday, September 14, 2006I've created a quick and simple list of the 10 team's various blog feeds... so if you'd like to follow along with their personal musings (including mine) then you can grab the OPML file here. [read more...]Share this
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