April 2006 Entries
As I mentioned in my previous post I'm in the middle of moving a blog from MSN Spaces to my Community Server site. Of course there were some issues to resolve. You first need to turn on e-mail publishing for your MSN Spaces blog. You cannot use the MetaWeblog API without it. You can turn it on by following the steps documented in the Getting Started with the MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces page. Note: you may have to use Firefox to do this. No lie. While using IE6 an error kept popping up on me. Weird.
Next you will have to download the XML-RPC dll. Unzip the...
I will be needing to migrate a MSN Spaces blog over to my Community Server site. I can't tell you what blog yet but it involves primates, colors and flames. Fortunately, Microsoft has made available the MetaWeblog API on MSN Spaces. They also have a decent getting started with MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces page. Unfortunately, they limit the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts method to only 20 posts. Ughhh. I can't fault MS too much their documentation is not too bad. I've got an idea on how I'm going to port the data. I'll post the code I've completed the port.
I see that you've found my new technical blog. Welcome. Just so you know I'm using Community Server 2.0 as the software for this blog. I have loaded all of the posts in the Tech category on my personal blog at www.jorriss.com on this site. To do this I was able hook into the Community Server web service, loop through my technical blog posts (stored in .Text) and load each post. I wasn't worried about the comments or referrals since I wasn't going to remove the original posts from jorriss.com. This way, I get a fresh blog with all of my...
Chris Sells, mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice.
PM Skill #0: Know Your JobPM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, CommunicatePM Skill #2: Building ConsensusPM Skill #3: Getting Things DonePM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You WantPM Skill #5: Unblock Others FirstPM Skill #6: Be The Team MomPM Skill #7: Use That Meeting Time!PM Skill #8: Give Credit FreelyPM Skill #9: Learn From The MastersPM Skill #9B: Team Offsite
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For almost four years I’ve been using Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA. CSLA or the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture is a framework to build business objects. It’s a powerful architecture that provides many different features for middle-ware objects (automating validation logic, n-level undo, and databinding support just to name a few). Personally, I wouldn’t start an application without it. Rocky has updated the framework once again this time with version 2.0. It includes better validation (it also breaks some of my code, thanks Rocky), authorization support and updates to the data portal. As usual Rocky has updated his books Expert VB 2005 Business...