Comments - WebDevelopment - Duncan Mackenzie .NET

Newly updated Oxite release available

2009-02-24T04:43:59.53

Where can someone find the other required references that this new version requires? AntiXssLibrary Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuiler2 Microsoft.Practices.Unity Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration

Newly updated Oxite release available

2009-02-19T09:57:14.03

Nice to here some new words from you :) cheers

Newly updated Oxite release available

2009-02-17T07:27:59.75

I guess so :) Thanks for the enthusiasm!

Newly updated Oxite release available

2009-02-17T01:10:12.983

you're back Duncan Mackenzie ? great ! welcome back !

Search Engine Optimization Tweaks over the long weekend

2008-08-19T07:04:00

please give us fun games

The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

2008-06-12T01:37:00

Congratulations, its finally here!

I don't know if it has settled in yet. I'm still blinking my eyes expecting it not to be there when I open them.

The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

2008-06-11T17:33:00

Hey Duncan, Congratulations to you and your team. The new site looks awesome compared to some of the others from the gallery.

Would it be possible for you to share the development process you used for realizing this from start to finish. For example, if you used Scrum or a variant of it, what your sprint cycle was, how did you tackle bugs that came in for the other properties when you were working on C9 codebase.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

Ice Cube talking about Silverlight...

2007-11-23T08:56:00

Duncan,
I just updated the player so it doesn't auto-play.
Thanks,
Michael

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-11-15T13:31:00

Yay lets pervert html and xml into offshoot formats and protcols in an effort to lockin users to rss and podcast clients..

This is going to be like herding cats.. This is why I don't use any Microsoft languages.. Pervert the language, lockin the developers.. What doesn't everyone use PHP? Obscurity is job security.

FYI, I'm writing a web-based podcatcher.. And thinking about just open sourcing it.. So we can do away with all this xml perversion rubbish..

Screw the rss and podcast clients.. Nobody is going to download iTunes if they can mass download files with downthemall or a plugin that might combine that and a bit-torrent..

Send the jobs to china, see if I care, I can paint and do other things, I don't need to be a stinkin web programmer..

Tracking RSS Feed Statistics

2007-09-06T21:47:00

Doesn't SQL Server still allow you to directly log to a database?

Wait until you start seeing all the crawlers you're probably getting milked by.

Also, while it's only tangentially appropriate: one of the features that Google made free when they bought Feedburner was to allow you to use your own domain -- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/mybrand

Overlaying HTML over Silverlight

2007-08-28T19:41:00

Well, that Adam guy's a smart cookie :)

Anyways... this is exciting for C9... can't wait.

Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...

2007-08-23T05:53:00

ARRRGH why such a fuss about SCRUM, its an "Pile of Pants"

The sprints are customer focused which sounds like a good idea, BUT developers are put under pressure to
plan there coding routine for the sprint duration and have to work out where they will be in 30 day from now, and if it doesnt come off for what ever reason the developer is held to account and not the Scrum master. And As the sprints are customer focused, the customer usually has high expectations on what should be delivered without the technical insight to halt them?,,,
So in summary... the Developer is not only developing but also project managing and being a customer laision point..so less time is spent coding.. and sprint deadlines missed... hope that makes sense,,

Have you created an Avatar on Gravatar?

2007-08-02T22:24:00

Looks like you took it off. Any reason?

Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...

2007-07-20T06:16:00

Hello Duncan,
I want you to help me with something in VB.NET. In windows apllication, can you refer me to a site or link where i can view sample codes on log in authentication into a database application? More like a log in custom authentication.

Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...

2007-06-23T03:31:00

What tools were you using before eScrum?

Source Code formatting/coloring (colouring!) for your ASP.NET web site

2007-06-12T21:56:00

the link on this page is broken

http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/Source-Code-formatting-coloring-colouring-for-your-ASPNET-web-site/

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-06-08T11:14:00

I'm finding that application/rss xml isn't recognized by IE6, so for backwards compatibility, you should use application/xml (IE7 and FF2 recognize it just fine). It's odd, though, because the IETF has pushed a standard through, but it isn't in the IANA's list of standard MIME types.

Walking in the 3-Day and interested in promoting your donation page?

2007-03-22T18:24:00

Thanks, Duncan! This is great!!! Check out my web page (it's on the sidebar). =)
http://www.LaurieThompson.com

Walking in the 3-Day and interested in promoting your donation page?

2007-03-21T12:59:00

How can I add this to my aol journals page. It shows the html code only. Any help you can give will be appreciated.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-03-06T08:43:00

Your blog is realy show

Have people forgotten how to use HTML?

2007-03-05T07:56:00

Sad but true.

Flash appeals to web designers because it hides their "code" and "intellectual property" from average users like me.

Also, no browser compat issues, unless somebody want's to view the site with a PDA or smartphone.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-02-28T09:04:00

it works well to use application/rss xml it is a RFC in rss 2.0
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt

But i have found out that IE7 doesn not take UTF-16, so you NEED to implement charset=utf-8 if your using text/xml or application/*... */xml

ALWAYS specify encoding if your sending over http :) :)

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-01-26T00:13:00

I'm curious as to why the comment form says "basic HTML is allowed", but my p and list tags weren't processed.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2007-01-26T00:11:00

<p>I am working on modifying a WordPress theme right now, and I based it off their classic theme. I was looking at the feed links in the header, and for some reason, the classic theme is setup as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Atom 0.3-application/atom xml</li>
<li>RSS .92-text/xml</li>
<li>RSS 2.0-application/rss xml</li>
</ul>
<p>So I looked up the IANA MIME types, and sure enough, application/rss xml is not an official type. So I put all my RSS feeds in application/xml in the link tag. However, neither IE7 nor Firefox 2.0 does not display the feed icon for the feeds when they are linked this way. So, I guess I am going with the non-standard application/rss xml.</p>

Check out the new Community Bar on on10.net

2006-11-30T02:29:00

Why use AJAX for this? It already does the RSS aggregation, that is what you are seeing... moving through them would be nice, I agree, but I don't think we had a really good UI in mind for that type of navigation.

The point of the bar is to show people on one site what the latest headlines are from another... so someone on Channel 9 might discover a new post from ASP.NET or on10.net... you see something similar on all the weblogs inc. sites (joystiq.com for example shows recent headlines from xbox 360 fanboy and other sites in the network)

Check out the new Community Bar on on10.net

2006-11-30T01:53:00

I don't quite understand the deeper meaning of this. Because really, it only shows the sites in the network (community) and some random headlines. There's no way to move to another headline...

Why not just have an ajax panel which agregates the rss feeds from all sites in the community and pops in when you hover over some trigger...

Don't get me wrong, it looks nice but I don't really see any benefit...

Pageviews are Obsolete

2006-09-11T19:19:00

Let's see if I can comment from IE, as FF doesn't seem to work (dang Microsofties! It's a conspiracy!)

Of course, agreed on PageViews. After all, the easiest way of upping your page views is to spread content across multiple pages *cough* developer.com *cough*. The content is no more useful -- in fact I'd argue it's less useful -- but "The numbers look better." Sadly, PVs are the numbers marketers know, and until there is agreement on something better, the world won't change.

Is it ok to block an entire TLD? .info is getting on my nerves...

2006-06-02T16:34:00

Well, most people worth anything usually try to simply become more creative with their URL's to maintain a standard com/org/net. I generally have found that the .tv, .biz, and .info folks are either spam or useless (no offense).

But I don't think the W#C is going to approve .USELESS or .SPAMMER anytime soon, so I think the possible drawbacks to blocking .info are greatly outweighed by the positive reduction in spam.

Is it ok to block an entire TLD? .info is getting on my nerves...

2006-05-28T02:18:00

I know a few legit .info users, but the majority seem to be search-bait. Sometimes it seems the only information from .info domains is about texas hold-em and erectile disfunction.

Is it ok to block an entire TLD? .info is getting on my nerves...

2006-05-22T16:20:00

Duncan,

I've considered doing the same thing in my battle with comment spam. Hearing someone else considering doing it makes me feel better about even considering it. :)

Interested in building your own Gadgets for Live.com?

2006-05-22T10:48:00

hmm... interesting technology... need to try... Thanks

Interested in building your own Gadgets for Live.com?

2006-01-30T00:16:00

what is the the tech known wher the future happinnigs are known??????????
i think this has been shown in a movie
i dont remember the name of the movie
tom cruise was the hero
can anyone tell me the idea behind it
plz mail me to vijaynidgundi@sify.com
bye

Interested in building your own Gadgets for Live.com?

2006-01-26T22:28:00

Hi,
Don't really know if this is the right place...well I used my pc playing online games.I love to play snooker,8-9 ball.Hope u guys can help as I 'm poor at graphics....I want change the coloring of my cue over in isnooker and the other question I would love to do is to creat a 3d live pool rooms..I really am in desperate need as I really want someone to teach me.Please help me...
Please email me at media_corp@ msn.com
Thanks and God Bless

I'm thinking of putting MSN Search onto my site(s)

2006-01-20T20:39:00

Duncan, I have a setup the search for my blog with MSN using their SDK and an AJAX search control. If you woud like, I can give you the code as a start.

You can test it out at http://lozanotek.com/search.aspx

IIS Admin is a great tool if you do web development on a Windows XP machine

2006-01-20T12:15:00

I'm using IIsAdmin.NET (an 'improved' version of IIS Admin) and I'm happy with it :-)

see http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/iisadminnet.asp

Phil Ringnalda questions the value of letting Google and MSN index his pages...

2006-01-09T14:45:00

Every now and then, though, my odd-name-as-URL works out: a few months back, someone was comment spamming using the email address admin@philringalda.com, and thanks to the missing second "n" only my friends were able to yell at me for becoming a pr0n spammer, since everyone else was yelling into the misspelled void.

Interested in building your own Gadgets for Live.com?

2006-01-05T17:59:00

but what's the diff btwn start.com and live.com, from a practical perspective?

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2005-12-13T04:22:00

Both your RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds look fine. However, as all of the characters in these feeds are pure ASCII, there is no way to tell just by looking at the feeds whether or not you handle encoding issues properly.

I would suggest trying the suggestions mentioned here:

http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html

Both Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn and “smart quotes”… note, I’m entering this from Firefox on Linux — you should try from IE6 on Windows.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2005-12-12T20:13:00

Serve your feeds as "Content-type: application/atom+xml", "Content-type: application/rss+xml", or "Content-type: application/xml". Any of these three choices will allow you to declare your charset properly within the feed, and avoid all kinds of RFC 3023-related weirdness. All three are supported by all major feed consumers.

Declare your charset properly in the encoding attribute of the xml declaration on the first line of the feed. Contrary to what you may have heard (cough Joshua Allen cough), getting your character encoding right is a prerequisite for producing well-formed XML.

Link to your feeds with an autodiscovery link with type="application/atom+xml" (this will soon be an RFC and already has a <a href="http://diveintomark.org/tests/client/autodiscovery/">test suite</a>) or type="application/rss+xml". Both of these are widely supported by feed consumers. No other type values are widely recognized.

Oh, by the way, Dave Winer knows very little about XML, even less about character encoding, and absolutely jack about media types. Ignore anything he says, you'll live longer.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2005-12-12T15:27:00

Phil... I don't know about IE7 either, I just know that IE6 attempts to download Sam's feed, after seeing application/rss+xml as its encoding...

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2005-12-12T15:25:00

D'oh. Maybe I could remember clear back to last week's last post to know that you don't have IE7 installed.

application/rss+xml vs. text/xml

2005-12-12T15:21:00

Well, you should only switch the autodiscovery links in your HTML if you want them to not be discovered: there are probably a few implementations that will autodiscover a type="application/xml" link, but many more that won't. There's no requirement that the type be what you actually serve: it's an "advisory type," not a guarantee.

The type for the feed itself is a no-fun question, but I do have one question, as a non-MSDN member and thus non-IE7 user: do you mean that IE7 doesn't know about application/rss+xml and insists on downloading it rather than displaying it?

Is my site broken in IE7?

2005-12-10T16:42:00

I don't know about IE7 but in IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519, the comment box shows up way down on the screen.
There's a giant blank space area between the post and the Comment Box (although the right sidebar shows up OK).

Trying to improve the standards compliance of my blog, but the asp:Calendar is getting in my way!

2005-12-05T05:09:00

Well, if it makes you feel better, I've always hated the calender - it's annoying, always has been :) Just get rid of it!