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While it isn't ready to roll out just yet, I've decided to convert my blog and main site over to Graffiti CMS. The folks at Telligent have put together quite a platform for individual blogging and content management. Despite that, the "CMS" in the product name stands for "Content Made Simple", not "Content Management ...

Effective immediately, I am moving the RSS feed for this blog over to FeedBurner. The new URL for my feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PeteBrown Most decent feedreaders should redirect to that and update the feed URL. If they don't, please plug the new URL in there. I plan to migrate to a new blogging platform sometime in the near future ...

My server at home (which hosts this blog and my main web site) is on the fritz due to too many beta products installed, and the welcome but unexpected increase in traffic caused by my Silverlight 2.0 post from the 8th. Unfortunately, I'm at a Silverlight meeting in Redmond this week, so I won't be able to take care of it until Friday or ...

My main website is pretty disjointed from my blog here, and with one exception, is rarely updated any more. I do plan to convert the main site over, prune out old stuff at somepoint, and make it as easy to update as my blog (WSS will likely be part of that solution) Anyway, the one part of my main site that does get updated on a fairly regular ...

My colleague at AIS, Steve Suing, just started up his own blog today. Among other things, Steve was half of the team on the Carbon Calculator project as well as a contributor on Silverlight.net. Steve's a talented guy, so I'm sure we'll see some cool stuff in his new blog.

A colleague of mine at Applied Information Sciences, Oskar Austegard, just announced squrl.us on his blog at mo.notono.us Squrl does a few more things than your average short URL generator. For example, when I entered the URL for one of my blog pages, squrl generated:squrl: http://squrl.us/2t mobile: http://m.squrl.us/2t cache: ...

Due to the naming conventions article I wrote some time ago, I tend to get a lot of guestbook comments on both sides of the issue. This latest comment illustrates one of the reasons I am so dead-set against Hungarian notation (or more importantly, its common [mis]use)Puneet Mehresh wrote:intEIN = objCustomer.Name("xyz"); by reading this, ...

Load this up into Virtual PC and have at it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67F93DCB-ADA8-4DB5-A47B-DF17E14B2C74&displaylang=en You can get to most Microsoft products this way now. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/vhd  

Now that I have completed the Silverlight project, I had a few moments to tie up some loose ends on my own computers at home.  I migrated my sites over to a new machine tonight. The new box is a dual 2.4ghz xeon IBM xSeries 345 server with 2.5gb RAM and four 15,000 SCSI drives, running Windows Server 2008 (longhorn) Beta ...

Mark Lindell gave a great intro talk on WCF tonight at the BaltoMSDN meeting. He also has some interesting content on his blog. Check it out.