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Archive for July, 2006

Over 1000 comments on the Drive blog

Author: Glenn Slaven

26 Jul

Drive BlogThe recently released Drive blog has proven to be very popular, with each post garnering at least a dozen comments, with a few of them topping 50 comments. However, the recent release of Holden’s new VE Commodore was covered extensively by the Drive Editorial team & the post on the blog asking for people’s opinions on the new car has now topped 10001200 comments!

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wp-plugins.org expired

Author: Glenn Slaven

19 Jul

Update: wp-plugins.org is back online. Thanks for taking the trouble to keep it going Craig, we appreciate it!

wppluginsorgIt seems that the owner of the wp-plugins.org domain, the WordPress Plugin Repository that hosts a large number of the plugins for Wordpress (including my own), has failed to re-register the domain & it expired yesterday. At the moment all you see is a domain-parking site which, according to the email link at the bottom, is hosted by www.whois-help.info, which in turn redirects to Enom. The DNS records for the domain show the prior registrant as Nuclear Moose, whose own domain has been suspended.

There are 2 threads on the support forums at the moment (here & here) the some people suggesting that the site itself has been unmaintained for some time now. I think that the idea here that there be an ‘official’ plugins.wordpress.org repository is a good idea. The SVN repository was very handy.

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.NET Development tools

Author: Glenn Slaven

6 Jul

  • Ian Olsen’s ReSharper vs. CodeRush post (and it’s subsequent follow-up). He makes some very useful points about the two programs. After my ReSharper demo licence expired recently I really empathise with this point:

    I really miss ReSharper’s usage search tools. Being able to move up and down the call graph with a keystroke or two is really nice, and very conspicuously absent from CodeRush. If you spend a fair amount of time reading other people’s code, this is huge. With everything else CodeRush does, I can’t fathom why this feature is missing. In Visual Studio 2005 it’s tolerable, because Visual Studio has its own (admittedly lame) implementation of this, but I’m thoroughly crippled in Visual Studio 2003, where I still do a fair amount of work. I could go back to ReSharper for this reason alone.

    We’ve been having discussions on ReSharper vs CodeRush at work, but from my own experience & now from reading these posts, I’m think ReSharper is for me. I really liked it’s syntax highlighting too, and the background compiling is a huge help, being stuck in VS2003 as we are. When my licence ran out it felt like I’d lost an arm.

    I also just noticed that JetBrains have launched the .NET Tools Blog which, although it is just about their software, does have some really helpful tips on how to use ReSharper well. eg: Quick-Fixes help generate switch blocks.

  • Larkware. The daily grind was added to FeedDemon as soon as I found it (thanks Scoble!), there’s just so much good stuff in there, if you can stand to wade through all the ads.

  • Taking the award for the most historically accurate technical analogy I’ve ever seen is Ted Neward’s essay on Object/Relational Mapping: The Vietnam of Computer Science. This is particularly interesting to me as I’m in the process of trying to come up with a more flexible O/R-M methodology using some reflection magic. This has given me something more to think about.

  • And finally, while it’s got nothing at all to do with .NET, Paul Graham’s latest essay The Power of the Marginal is, as always, required reading.

Has someone hacked amandacongdon.com?

Author: Glenn Slaven

6 Jul

Update: Well whatever happened it’s now been fixed up, the site is back the same as before, no mention of the Rocketboom departure.

With all the talk about what’s happened on Rocketboom with Amanda Congdon, I tried to open her domain site and all I got was this:


<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="#FFFFFF">
<?php
if(strstr($HTTP_HOST,"ixwebhosting.com")){echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"0;url=http://email.ixwebhosting.com/horde/imp/\">";}
if(strstr($HTTP_HOST,"hostexcellence.com")){echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"0;url=http://email.hostexcellence.com/horde/imp\">";}
?>
</font></body></html>

If that is someone trying to hack it, it’s a really lame attempt. php code displaying to the browser? It looks more like something has been removed. ixwebhosting.com is the company that hosts the domain. I was wondering if it might be hosted by the owner of rocketboom.com, but the whois records show them to be on completely different hosting companies (amandacongdon.com, rocketboom.com) & Amanda is listed as all the contacts for her domain.

It’s happened very recently, I loaded that site up yesterday & it was working fine. For a more complete list of all the discussions surrounding this, see this Megite listing.

[tags]rocketboom,amandacongdon,videoblog[/tags]

Automotive Blogs

Author: Glenn Slaven

6 Jul

I’m after any car/truck/bike/<insert other means of transport here> blogs that people know of. Obviously there is Autoblog & the Drive Blog, but I’m sure there must be others. I’m particularly interested in seeing what other Australian car blogs there are. Is you know of any blogs that fit this description, please let me know.

They don’t need to be ‘professional’ sites, just as long as they’re mostly to do with vehicles!

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drive.com.au blog

Author: Glenn Slaven

4 Jul

At Drive we’ve just released the new Blog on drive. It’s running off a Movable Type engine, similar to the SMH blogs. There’s been a fair bit of interest already & some good discussions going. This is quite a new thing for drive, and we hope it will be of some value to people, rather than just turning into yet another lame corporate attempt to jump on the blogging bandwagon.So drop on in and add your 2 cents to whether Australian drivers are the world’s worst.

As this is a new development, we’re very open to comment/questions & suggestions. If there’s something that you think’s missing or something’s not working, please contact drive, or leave a comment here.

New promotion launched today too, win $100 worth of petrol.

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