From scoble, Google has released a beta of an autocomplete search box.  I type in asp. and it knows asp.net.  Not really helpful in itself, but it also shows the number of documents matching the term.  Very cool.  Check it out here.

Ear candy: Jay Z - Change Clothes and Go

As you can see, I wasn't a very good crook.

Priceless

No, thats not really me, but classic either way.

Ear candy: Sublime - Hope

I was at the last one, and I’ll be at the next one.  Great technical content, free stuff, and best of all, free.  Check out the details here

Ear candy: qtip - qtip - Moving With U

Another dev here showed me this cool trick where if you enter javascript:alert(document.cookie); in your address bar it will show your cookies.  So I quickly added a shortcut to my links bar and now I'm 2 clicks away from seeing my cookies on any page.  Very easy and cool.

I've been anxiously awaiting word that the DNR crew had released their movie, and hot damn it's here.  Tried to order it Sat but my wallet was all the way in the office with my CC, but I was in the living room.  Good thing they are taking Paypal now so I don't have to stand up to buy it.

Why are you still reading this? Go order it!

Been thinking about the blog, and where I might like it to go in the future, and the one feature I just keep thinking about is wiki functionality.  For my uses, I think it would be a natural fit.  There are already quite a few bliki's out there, so I figure there has to be a few packages that might be worth checking out. 

So I started searching, and found a few options.  I found that some people use some WikiTalk to get FlexWiki to act as a blog.  Interesting idea, but I can't see myself ditching .Text for that.  I found a couple other bliki's, but nothing that seemed to stand out, until I found SnipSnap.  SnipSnap looks really interesting.  I'm certainly not convinced, but I'm going to play with it for a bit to see how it is.  It's not .net, though, so it will be a hard sell either way (anyone know a cheap router that does forwarding based on hostname?). 

In either case, my research yielded all kinds of crazy requirements and ideals for a system I wish I could just download.  I'd like to say I'd build it, well hell, maybe I will. 

• Must have a blog.  Full support for all the various syndication and API standards. 
• Multiple users, each who has their own blog.
• Each blog can be skinned and modified independently.
• All blogs share common wiki.
• Blog entries have categories.
• Blog posts use wiki dialect.
• Each blog has articles.
• Ability to attach files to wiki or blog pages.
• Ability for wiki sections to be marked private/roles based access.
• Ability to publish wiki page to blog or article.
• Winforms app that works like notepad that stores away wiki pages to be “synced“ later.
• Would be nice if wiki was blog context skinnable.
• Blogs have comments that turn off in n days.
• Color my code for me please.

The list got a little longer in type then it was in my head.  I could have kept going too.  Either way, anyone know of any other bliki's I should check out?

Just finished up on another article for the blog.  I'd like to publish a few short technical papers with ranging topics just to get some more in depth technical content up here. 

In interviews, there is no doubt, I will ask someone what an interface is, and to explain uses for them in the .net framework.  The answers are usually interesting, and wrong.  Experianced .net developers usually have a very firm grasp on interfaces, as well as the rest of the tools needed for OO design in .net, but newcomers often have issues hitting the ah-ha! moment with interfaces.  I hope this article can help people understand their many uses.

Check it out here

Anyone else notice the gmail spam filter just seems to have turned itself off this morning?  I woke up and found quite a few emails that were obviously spam in the inbox, and they haven't stopped yet. 

I have been pretty happy with gmails spam filter.  I do go through it myself since it catches a couple things I wish it didn't, but it's not really that much of a hasstle.  Not catching spam, though, is a huge hasstle.  Did the spammers maybe change something last night?

I started reading ASP.Net v 2.0 - The beta verion yesterday, and have started back up in whidbey.  After I started a new web site I had a project with a new default.aspx and a default.aspx.vb codebehind.  Odd, I don't remember selecting a language.  Well after thinking about the new no project model, it made sense as to why I could just specify the lanuage when adding a new file. 

ps. I quickly deleted the default.aspx in favor of its {sexier} version  :)

pps. Picture whidbey doesn't usually come through on this feed, but since I haven't done it in months I wanted to let anyone new know it's there. and hopefully more active.  Also, feel free to submit screenshots

UML can sometimes be a conflicting topic, but I feel it can definitely add value during the design phase.  I have had some thoughts about this for a while, and figured I would finally jot them down.  Turned out to be a more then a blog entry, but not something I'd want to submit to publish, so it found a home here in the articles section.

Design Abstractions intends to explain some of the design UML methodologies I use for some of the smaller things I do.  This article speaks to creating design artifacts with a limited design time, or small team.  For example, this is the type of design I do for my own “stuff“.

Feel free to comment as it could certainly become somewhat of a living document.   

Link

So I was hunting around for some articles today, and happened upon 15seconds.  To my surprise, right on the front page, it lists the most popular article, and holy cow, it's my build system article.

Being my first professionally published article, I'm pretty siked.  Now it's time to roll up the sleeves and write another.  Thanks everyone who read it, and thanks to those who have emailed me about the article!

I've complained before about this, and it still plagues us here and there.  Basiclly, large vb.net projects that bomb out the IDE from time to time.  Somedays I never restart the IDE, sometimes I restart it a couple times an hour.  Nothing like an intermitted problem that stops everything to boost productivity.

Well, unbeknownst to me, MS released a patch many months ago to help combat the issue.  I will apply this today and see if it helps at all. 

Thanks Panopticon Central for the heads up

From scoble's link blog. 

Instant classic.

I have setup the new B1 bits for community server as I said I would, but it ended there.  Hey, I got Need for Speed 2 this weekend, and well, thats the end of that story. (note so instead of new content, would you guys settle for pictures of my pimped out mx-5?  :) 

I hope to set some more of it up this week, and possibly try to get a trigger working so posting to 1 blog might post to both.  Overall, so far, CS beta 1 looks pretty good.  Still some definte rough edges, but such is a beta.

You can get there from http://blog2.iceglue.com

You heard it right, there is a beta released.  Congrats to Telligent on the release.  I'm sure it will be a good one from that group of rock stars.

I was just talking to another blogger yesterday about when we might see this, and if we should edit .text .095 or not.  Guess not  :)

I will probably try to upgrade over the weekend, and run parallel until I see how the new beta is.  I will let you guys know when the new bits are live.

Check it out here

Jeremy C. Wright has started up a blogger jobs blog.  The idea is to post jobs for bloggers, or for bloggers to post jobs.  Nice.  Check it out here.

[Edit]
Little did I know but Jeremy is also the person behind ResumeWiki, a new community resume site for posting, and critiquing resumes.  Just wanted to spread the good word.

Do you like to laugh?  Do you go to work?  Do you ride a unicycle?

Then Mondays is for you. 

From the folks who brought us Dot Net Rocks comes what promises to be a fantastic weekly radio talk show.  If you listen to dot net rocks, then you’re already sold.  If not, DNR is a talk radio show about .net programming.  It is a streaming radio show with a mix of technical content, and fun.  The DNR crew decided it was time to break the once 2 hour show into a couple shows. 

DNR will continue to be a technical broadcast once a week, while the rest of the fun, and some new fun, is pulled into Mondays, along with interviews that are not as technical in nature as what you will expect to see on DNR. 

Here Carl gives us a little teaser of what Mondays will have in store for us.  Be sure to check back Monday and get the full show, and tell all your friends!

Blog got a minor facelift.  Let me know if theres any issues.

Thanks RoudyBob.Net for the new skin.