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Links for 2008-07-19 [del.icio.us]

protected virtual void jaysonBlog — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

GeForce GTX 280 SLI Dual | Triple review test...(read more)

Everyman Links for July 20, 2008

Dave Burke — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:49:34 GMT

And be a hot woman. My August issue of Wired arrived yesterday. Influenced by the advice of Copyblogger's "How to be Interesting" post I perused the cover story on Julia Allison. Copyblogger's tip #8 on being interesting was "Show a (half) naked woman." Other good tips in the post, but the half-naked Julia Allison on the Wired magazine cover seemed to support Copyblogger's thesis. The Wired story was all about how to successfully promote yourself on the Internet like...(read more)

Abidar Task Scheduler Application Taking Shape

Dave Burke — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:41:40 GMT

Keyvan Nayyeri's Task Scheduler Application is taking shape with working Beta 1 source on CodePlex. The K-Man discusses the release here. The solution contains a Website Project and Abidar class library as shown here. Keyvan includes a Clear Cache task in the web project to give you a sampling of how to write your own tasks. I added a File Append task (FileAppendTask.cs) taken from an earlier post from Keyvan which writes a line to a .TXT file every 10 seconds to give me more feedback that my...(read more)

Abidar 1.0 Beta 1

Keyvan Nayyeri — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:46 GMT

Last month I wrote a couple of blog posts about building a task scheduler system for ASP.NET ( part 1 and part 2 ). Following to those posts and reader feedback I was convinced to extend that idea as an open source project. Here Dave Burke , my dear friend and one of the most respectful men on the community, was the main person who collaborated with me on the topic. Even though turning that basic sample of that post series to a general framework seemed very straightforward and easy but I finally...(read more)

Everyman Links for July 18, 2008

Dave Burke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:36:12 GMT

Microsoft Empower for ISVs and Silverlight. I'm into my second year as a member of Microsoft's Empower for ISVs program. There are a few requirements, but it is really an excellent service, essentially providing your home-based developer business with an MSDN Premium Subscription for $375 bucks. The reason it's Everyman material tonight is the fun Silverlight ad they're currently using, what you can do for your developers with the $375. Complete with glassy buttons and everything...(read more)

I was wondering why it was so quiet this week

Dave Burke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:01 GMT

I was wondering why it was so quiet this week and no one was speaking to me, but now I know the answer. I discovered tonight when I updated my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 on returning from the beach Sunday I forgot to restore an essential Community Server legacy page, my /blog/rss.aspx redirect to BE.NET's /blog/syndication.axd feed. Sorry for appearing to be holed-up in some cave eating wild pig monitoring the CB frequencies. "There wouldn't be any trouble if it weren't for that...(read more)

Stylin: Bittdesign

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT

Distinctive use of monochrome with complimenting main animated graphic area listing various company products and services. Link to Bittdesign | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Gallery Mar

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:57:38 GMT

Segmented content by area and type. Subtly sophisticated. Link to Gallery Mar | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Panic CandyBar

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:54:14 GMT

Good looking logo and icons. Distinctive site title font. Like the lighter-colored header and footer with slightly darker content area. Someone with a great eye and a lot of graphic design skill does this company's design. Link to Panic CandyBar | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Mikan Design

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:49:34 GMT

Another attractive site in the lighter color range. Distinctive background patterns. Link to Mikan Design | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Fuze Media

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:45:24 GMT

Good use of spacing and focused content in the page body area. Great pic of the seagull with the flying glasses. Sparse but effective span of color. Link to Fuze media | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Autopfand

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:41:48 GMT

Simple and clean with a showpiece animated banner. Cookie-cutter front page but good looking. Link to Autopfand | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Nordic Track Book Club Review: Digital Darwinism

Dave Burke — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:18:13 GMT

Digital Darwinism: 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy by Evan I Schwartz is a light read, but an enjoyable one. With a publication date of 1999 it's rather dated, but there remain excerpts for you aplenty. Ironically, most of the companies Schwartz highlights using his Darwinistic analogy of why they are well-positioned for continued survival no longer exist. That's okay. 1999 is many Internet Years ago. 3 out of 5 stars. -----------------------...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

Keyvan Nayyeri — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:44:40 GMT

As Scott and Phil already have pointed out, ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 is finally up on CodePlex and you can get your hands on the installer, source code and documentation files on its workspace . It’s been quite a while since the official release of Preview 3 and MVC fans and followers have been waiting for this new version and it finally came out earlier today. This Monday Scott Guthrie wrote the first part of a descriptive post series about the new version and talked about some changes and new features...(read more)

Effective Use of StatusCriteria Property in Community Server Spam Rules

Keyvan Nayyeri — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:47:00 GMT

I know that my blog is spamified recently but I promise to end it here after this post but before that, let me write about a good Community Server tip that can be very effective in some circumstances. Actually I owe this tip to Thomas Freudenberg who was kind enough to test my Community Server spam rules for Waegis and send me some important feedback. One of his feedback was about the use of StatusCriteria property that can be very effective in the case of some spam rules like Waegis. He already...(read more)