Contents tagged with Syndication

  • Tracking RSS Feed Statistics

    Sep 4 2007 7:58 PM

    A 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 like a rather manual (or difficult to automate) and data transfer intensive method. Continue reading...

  • Trackbacks and URL matching

    Apr 19 2007 8:35 AM

    I 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. Continue reading...

  • Check out the new Community Bar on on10.net

    Nov 28 2006 6:15 PM

    One of my jobs over the past couple of weeks has been to build a javascript based 'toolbar' that could run across the top of on10.net and show folks headlines aggregated from a variety of Microsoft Community sites. So, along with a bunch of help from Adam and Erik, I managed to get it finished and deployed today. You can see it on top of the page on 10 Continue reading...

  • Windows Live Writer

    Aug 16 2006 3:30 AM

    on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What's cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SDK (wrote some plug-in code last night, super easy) and it ships with a bunch of .NET assemblies that I'm about to go spelunking through... Continue reading...