My recent blog post Windows Azure + Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) = true got reposted by my good friend Glenn Block: Meffifying Windows Azure. This of course made my little blog attract an unusually large traffic. I have a few posts like that (depending on how search-attractive the content is. But anyway: It’s not that I get HUGE amounts of comments on my blog. A few now and then which is always appreciated. I have the comment review function switched on meaning I get a message when ever I get a comment on my blog and I get...

Today something amusing happened. It was proved that Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) has a superpower. He has powers over computers in the form that he can do DOS attacks just by posting a link to a small site (like mine) on Twitter. This is the story: Scott blogged a post about Bing! saying among other things that he’d: use Bing for the whole month of June and see how it goes I replied with my post: Using Bing! for a month – I’ll take you up on that Scott...

A colleague of mine, Rikard, has entered the blogosphere! His entry on Castle Windsor and nHibernate in ASP.NET MVC commands respect at least from me! Well worth a read: http://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/ Cheers, M. Technorati Tags: blogging,ALT.NET,.NET,nHibernate,Castle Windsor,ASP.NET,MVC

I activated FeedBurner for my feed. It's really Sweet with all of the cool features they have! I added lots of tweaks to my feed including the most important one MyBrand. It makes it possible to keep your url as the source of your feed while it still being a feedburner feed. Your readers will never know the difference! And since I have blog using Subtext that support FeedBurner simply through configuration it was real easy to set it up. The one thing that had me puzzled for a while was that access to the MyBrand feature was not...

Naturally you want to an easy way to insert code fragments in your blog post. Just pasting them does not work. You need a plugin (Windows Live Writer Extensions). I've tested two: Insert Code for Windows Live Writer This plug allows you to paste code that you've copied from anywhere. This is useful when you are not copying from Visual Studio. There's a pop-up window where you paste and possibly edit your code before it's inserted. As it seems however this plug formats the background white. Unless you're OK with this use the other plug below and copy form Visual...

Very cool day today since I've gone live with my new blog. Surf in at blog.noop.se and have a look at it! For those who are on the old feed still (might be seeing a message above stating in bold something about this blog being moved) please update your feeds to point here: blog.noop.se/rss.aspx As you might have read or are about to... I wrote a little something to keep my old feed URL intact (Keeping the old feed intact when moving your blog) when I switched from dasBlog to Subtext. I totally recommend you move...

Here's how you move to Subtext while keeping your old feed - with a twist: My old feed is the same as the new but it is prefixed in every post with the message: "The feed for Techie.notepad has moved! Please update your aggregator to this url: http://blog.noop.se/rss.aspx" Scenario: I am moving my blog from one blog engine to another. Not that I fantasize that my blog has that many readers, but call me vain, I'd like to keep my old feed with a forward to the new one. dasBlog published my blogs feed at this url:...

This part of my moving to Subtext was easy! Just download the dasblogml application and run it. A few minor snags: Tuns out that in BlogML has definitions for both title: <title type="text"><![CDATA[See you at the PDC 2008!  ]]></title> and post name:<post-name type="text"><![CDATA[See you at the PDC 2008!]]></post-name> But the dasbloml generator only generated empty post names. This became a problem when importing. It could be that my version of dasBlog didn't contain post names in the source files. Doesn't matter. Now I'm exported! Cheers, /Magnus Technorati Tags: blogging,subtext

I am determined (finally) to move to another blog engine. DasBlog is fine but development on that code base is slow and some features that I want are just not there. Also the code base could be in better shape since I want to go in and hack some myself. Now I've found a blog engine worth the name; Subtext  ...