Contents tagged with Blogging
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How to Talk Yourself out of your New Year’s Blogging Resolution… One Day At A Time
It’s a new year! Even though years are an arbitrary construct and all that, you feel reinvigorated! Alive! Ready to take on the world! And you’ve read all those posts and tweets and instatumblrs about blogging! They’re pretty compelling, really, and you’re in a suggestible state of mind. You’re thinking about taking the plunge.
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8 Windows Live Writer tips
Windows Live Writer really is an amazing application. It does one job really, really well. I've been using it on several blogs including this one (running on Community Server, Herding Code podcast (running on Wordpress). I've also used it to manage content in a variety of ways, including posting content to "hidden" blogs which were really content repositories for consumer facing sites.
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Excerpt Old Posts - A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit
If you've got a WordPress blog and use Feedburner, you may notice that the posts stop updating. It's often due to a limitation on Feedburner that stops updating if your feed exceeds 512K. I wrote a simple plugin called Excerpt Old Posts that fixes that problem by showing Full Text for recent posts and Summary for older posts.
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No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer programmers have all that much in common)
Jeff Atwood recently linked Steve Yegge's post on Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions. My first impression was that it was horrible advice. For reference, here's the five areas which Steve considers essential in eliminating poor job candidates:
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The Man Who Knew Too Much?
I've been thinking about the odd problem, and what can be done about it. I've found that more active participation in a group can lead to more information, but that new information can actually stifle further participation. Here are some of the problems I'm thinking of, as well as some possible solutions. -
Three posts a week - my new year's resolution
I'll pass my 5 year blogging anniversary this year. I've written over 520 posts. But, I'd like to be more consistent. So this year, I'm resolving to post three times a week. I'll give myself an exemption when I'm on vacation, which explains why I'm posting this on the second week of the new year.
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Adding a DotNetKicks image via Javascript
DotNetKicks is a nice social bookmarking system (like Digg, Reddit, etc.) that's specific to .NET development issues. Users submit cool links, other users vote on it, popular links show up the front page and in an RSS feed. It lets you know what's going on in the .NET world right away without having to spend every second of the day scanning thousands of blogs.
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New Cropper Plugins Release (includes Flickr, OneNote, TinyPic)
Patrick Altman added his plugins to the Cropper Plugins bundle out on CodePlex. His SendToFlickr plugin has become an essential part of my blogging routine - I grab portions of the screen directly to Flickr, then add them to posts with the Flickr4Writer WindowsLiveWriter plugin.
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Animated GIF Plugin for Cropper + some .NET Animated GIF code
Cropper is a great free screen capture program. It has a cool plugin system which lets you send the screenshots anywhere you can write code to send it. I wrote a plugin to save a portion of the screen to an Animated GIF. -
Subscription updates for my blog
If you subscribe to my weblog's RSS feed (rather than the main weblogs.asp.net feed), you'll need to update it to my new feedburner feed link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jongalloway