SteveX Compiled

I like this terminology: How 1999 2.0 is different than 1999 1.0.

Om Malik’s comments on writing on the web. What I don’t understand is why there isn’t more work underway to make the browser a better rich client. We’ve been typing into browsers for what, 10 years now? And the browser still doesn’t have a built-in rich text editor. Not only that, but even though there’s […]

We hear statistics all the time about how popular blogging is becoming. MSN has millions of blogs, and you hear statistics like 40000 new blogs per month. But a quick survey of posts on the Weblogs.Com Recently Updated Weblogs page shows that over two thirds of the blog entries showing up are advertising, with most […]

In case anyone reads this on the main page instead of in an aggregator.. I’m trying out a different theme. It’s wider, so code snippets don’t wrap. I wanted to make my String Formatting in C# page look good since searching for how to do sprintf type formatting in C# is how most people find […]

I finished importing all my old entries from Community Server. My Java skill has increased slightly. All is well. Except that the formatting is hosed in a lot of my old posts…

I decided previously to use an RSS <item> as the file format for a blog post.  Looking into the MetaWeblogAPI, it seems like that was a good move, since posting with MetaWeblogAPI involves simply sending the <item> to post.  So there’s two things to do: Figure out the SQL query to use with Community Server to […]

My site doesn’t currently validate as valid XHTML.  I don’t know much about search engine optimization but I heard that valid XHTML gets a slightly higher Google PageRank than invalid XHTML… maybe this is their way of helping encourage the web to adopt XHTML.  It looks like WordPress is almost there, but the content of […]

The XML for a blog post in an RSS 2.0 document looks like this: <item> <title>My Item</title> <link>http://example.com/item123</link> <pubdate>Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:31:00 GMT</pubdate> <guid isPermaLink=”false”>b18f7ed9-yadda-yadda</guid> <dc:creator>stevex</dc:creator> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <comments>http://example.com/item123/comments.html</comments> <wfw:commentRss>http://example.com/comments.rss</wfw:commentRss> <description>This is the text of my blog post.</description> </item> This is similar to what Community Server delivers up.  Most of it is right from the […]

I just finished getting all set up and happy with BlogJet, and someone (the author?) posted a comment here about Qumana . It’s very similar to BlogJet, with the same nice editing experience that made BlogJet such a pleasure to use.. but it’s free.   It’s called Qumana LE, which makes me think there’s a […]