May 2006 Entries
I was looking for some cool feed/rss icons today and this is what I found - excellent!
The long awaited IIS website has launched.
Want to try out IIS7 while you're waiting for Vista to install? The IIS7 Virtual Labs are online now! Just log into http://VirtualLabs.IIS.net with Internet Explorer, and you can try IIS7 on Windows Vista Beta 2 in your Web browser in less than 2 minutes.
Incredible! I didn't know that the demand for google related domains were this high. Ebay has a listing for 3 google like domains (or should I say domains with the word google that means absolutely nothing) - www.myfavoritegoogle.com, www.positivelygoogle.com for $25,000,000.00. View the listing here.
As you all know, I like digging so I did a little bit off research to see if these domains are even worth a dollar. Google suggest turned out 0 results on both domains - which simply means no one is searching for them. The domains are currently being redirected to http://dubuque1.com/ which immediately pops out a stack overflow error...
In response to my post - feedburner invalid feeds, I received a request for samples from Eric(Feedburner) which I quickly sent out and this is what I got back from him:
You're right, the feed is invalid because of some bad character in one of the posts. The invalid character is in the source feed, however, and it's making it so even we can't parse the feed. So what we do when we can't read the feed is that we a) automatically notify the publisher that their source feed has become invalid and b) pass the feed through as-is without applying any...
Shouldn't there be a law against these type of businesses or business models. I've been looking for domains for the past month that will fit my new products with no luck - probably because Los Angeles-based Demand Media bought the domain name registrar eNom and their plan is to put up low-cost content on the 150,000 domains they have acquired—sites like beautifulhomes.com and mobilephone.com—driving up their number of visitors (already 25 million per month) and collecting click-through dollars for sending them to real destination sites - Now that is ridiculous!!!
What about us that do need these domains for legitimate business...
I've noticed that some of the feeds that I subscribed to fails most of the time - so I decided to do some digging and sure enough I found out that they are all using feedburner and the reason why they fail is because of an invalid character or characters in the content. You'll think feedburner should be cleaning this up or probably they do not want to tamper with any of the feed content - anyway just a thought!
NikHilk from http://www.nikhilk.net, who developed one of my favorite web development tools - "Web Development Helper", has cooked up another brilliant idea known as Script#.
Script#, which is currently prototype will bring the C# developer experience (programming and tooling) to Javascript/Ajax world.
The fundamental goal was to improve the state of the art in scripting. This goes way beyond the usual things that come to mind at first thought: compile-time checking, and intellisense or statement completion. I do think these are super-useful, and would be valuable in and of themselves. As we worked on Atlas we were also thinking of a...
I'm out domain shopping for my new product and this is what I found - http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/ - and I was about to give up....
This sounds promising! CSS friendly adapters? I'm definitely going to try it out, I came across it today, while search the web for new(not so famous) products, sure enough I found one. You can download the beta edition.
ASP.NET is a great technology for building web sites but it would be even better if it rendered different HTML. For example, the Menu control makes it simple to add a menu to a web site but it would be better if it didn't create <table> tags and was easier to style using CSS. Happily, it's easy to "teach" the Menu control how to...
Is this the new Microsoft Frontpage? Because I'm still trying to figure out the point of the all new complicated, complex & powerful "Microsoft Expression Web Designer". Trial (CTP) is now available for download.
We are pleased to present the very first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Expression Web Designer. Expression Web Designer is a professional design tool to help you create modern standards-based Web sites.
Expression Web Designer helps you create and work with:
Standards-based Web sites
Sophisticated CSS-based layouts
Extensive CSS formatting and management
Rich data presentation
Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology
I haven't had the opportunity or time to mess around with it, but I've heard nothing but good news-so go ahead and try it out and let me know how it turns out.
Highlights of this release include: - Updates to our base WCF guidance package based on your feedback - An entire guidance package dedicated to securing your services using - X.509 certificates - Kerberos - Direct authentication using Windows, ADAM, or SQL - A MEX based policy generator to help you secure your client applications - A partially complete Interop configurator to help you apply security policy based on...
While shopping for some monitors on the dell outlet site., I was redirected to a ridiculous message.
WARNING:You're disruptively hitting our Dell Factory Outlet web servers too fast, please slow down your incoming HTTP requests to our web servers.Thank you for your cooperation.
What? Are you kidding me? I'm currently thinking twice about buying any dell products (I don't own any currently). I'm trying to imagine the look on my face if I get a message stating: Warning you're disruptively clicking your laptop mouse button too fast, please slow down your mouse clicks to your laptop - for opening a couple of files.
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been on several phone pitches from west-coast companies that are looking to be the “flickr of XXXX” or “like del.icio.us but YYYY” or “the Digg killer”. It got me thinking – how many people outside of the valley have ever heard of these companies? I asked a bunch of local (Philly-area) acquaintances and the answer came back loud and clear: none – nada - zip. People here have barely heard of Myspace and Craigslist – let alone any of the “hot” Web 2.0 companies
It seems Michael Arrington has gone green. I noticed a complete redesign to his website and its looking goog - although he should probably slack a little bit on the green aspect but I guess he is trying to make a point.
Some of the new changes that you will notice right away is the home page - menu on the top with an advertise link, secondly more ads, guess with his traffic count, thatss some good cash flow, however, I preferred the old design - was a lot easier to read. I do use pluck, so it probably won't affect me that much.
Mobile...
Google Desktop(Updated) - Add Google Gadgets to your desktop and Google Trends - See what the world is searching for.
Ok, there are a boat load of applications launching everyday by the hour - cool, yeah more websites! However, what is common among them? Similarity and Re-invention! I've noticed that all of the new web applications are all similar one way or the other and they are all re-inventing the wheel someway.
To cut the rope of my neck, I'll have to say that there are a few out there that are unique but not completely just a twist to an existing application or a flip, therefore, I've embarked on a journey to build an application quite unique not completely but not...
An AJAX SVN browser is now available. Still in beta and open to the public - seems like an awesome browser for snv - try it out.
Windows live messenger is now available to the public...I've been using it for a while and it is awesome - take a snap and try it out.
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data," the article says. "It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information--movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever--could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.
Read more.
Microsoft has launched a all new QnA site located here. Here are the words out of the horses mouth...
A little background…Once upon a time, there was an intern at Microsoft who had an idea for getting people answers to the questions they needed. He nicknamed it the “hyperengine” and everyone in Web Search used it for internal projects; it was way cool. Then, when he went back to college, the internal discussions started. Shouldn’t we be building a real one?
Grassroots momentum continued and eventually Windows Live QnA was born. We hired the intern back (yes,he graduated) and got another...
Amazingly, I love it. Its well organized and appealing and a little bit more complex than it used to be but nothing extreme to through anyone off. Access to yahoo widgets such as mail, messenger, my yahoo and more are now at your fingertips.
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