jeff.HAMLIN@dotNETjust another .NET coder
http://blogs.windowsclient.net/jadaar/atom.aspxCommunity Server2008-08-05T23:42:00ZEureka...Blog Solution!!http://blogs.windowsclient.net/jadaar/archive/2008/08/05/eureka-blog-solution.aspx2008-08-06T03:42:00Z2008-08-06T03:42:00Z<p></p>
p {
font-family: Trebuchet MS;
color: #FFCC00;
}
<table cellspacing="3" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td> <p align="left">I think I finally have this blogging thing figured out!! </p> <p align="left"><em>Trust me, I have had several...</em> <br />I fell into this big trap..  <br /> I had one with <a title="Google" href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a> and it was cool (they saved me from a domain host who trashed my first <a title="WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time." href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> blog). <p align="left">I was having fun learning the ropes, but I wanted to focus on programming.  I wasn't sure that a blog (back at that time) was the right medium for what I had in mind!  I wanted to talk to my peers, share code and ideas.  Maybe a website would be better, I went back and forth trying different solutions. </p> <p align="left">So, I decided to start another, keeping the social one, but I named this new one '<a title="dotNET Jeff" href="http://dotnet-jeff.blogspot.com/">DotNET Jeff</a>' - :) <br /></p> <p align="left">I play around on all those cool Google API's - but most of my time is dedicated to <a title="Microsoft Developer Network" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft technologies</a><strong><em> <br /><br />Its what I love, it is the core of why I do what I do...</em></strong></p> <p align="left">  <br />So, I am reading about - "<a title="WPF Training Center" href="http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos_wpf.aspx" target="_blank">WPF</a>", "<a title="LINQ Training Center" href="http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos_linq.aspx" target="_blank">LINQ</a>" thinking - how we could enhance the app we have - (But we live in the land of <a title="I see they have replaced our Citrix, we use MetaFrame" href="http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=163987" target="_blank">Citrix</a> based app deployment...) and I notice that they are offering me a blog.  </p> <p align="left">Oh my, I was like a kid in a candy store and totally out of control.  So, I took it, and now have 3 blogs - and barely enough time to maintain ONE!</p> <p align="center"><b><i>WHAT DO I DO?</i></b></p> <p align="left"><b><i>I cannot trash the <a title="dotNET Jeff" href="http://dotnet-jeff.blogspot.com/">DotNET Jeff</a>', it's new but I still like it - I like this one as well, so keeping them all!  What to do!!!! </i></b></p> <p align="left">So, I have decided to partition them:</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> <tr> <td style="border:thin solid #00CCFF;background-color:#FFFF99;color:#003366;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:smaller;"> <ol> <li><a href="http://dotnet-jeff.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google .NET blog</a> was going to be renamed, but I exercised my rights as a human and changed my mind!  I will have both focus on <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/NET/" target="_blank">.NET related Technologies</a> !!! This is also my designated project blog for <a title="First Open Source Project - its fun" href="http://www.codeplex.com/sqlstring" target="_blank">SQLString</a></li> <ul> <li><em><a href="http://dotnet-jeff.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Google .NET blog</a> will not be limited to that, it will also cover my explorations and fun into <a title="The google offerrings....." href="http://code.google.com/more/#products-featured-android" target="_blank">Google's API and <a title="There is some really cool code at CodeProject in C# taking advantage of this" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers" target="_blank">Mozilla</a> related....WHEN I HAVE TIME!!!</em></li> </ul> <li><i><a title="WOW...I am now getting into this. A post last night, have an article queued for next week there....FUN" href="http://www.jeffhamlin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Social one</a>, well I only post there if it is something I really care about (like what Bush did at the <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191505/">Knesset</a>, or </i><i><a title="This is the REAL tragedy, dying people." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict" target="_blank">Darfur</a></i><i> - along those lines).</i></li> <li> <div align="left"><i><a title="home" href="http://blogs.windowsclient.net/jadaar/" target="_blank">Microsoft blog</a> will be only for .NET discussions...and cool technology!!</i><i></i> </div> </li> </ol> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="left">In addition...since my friends think I work too hard, I now have a justification for allocation of more time to those things I want to do - like blogging about <a title="MIDORI...Microsoft's Next Step?" href="http://gizmodo.com/5021126/microsoft-midori-is-a-secret-post+windows-operating-system" target="_blank">MIDORI</a> or how the <a title="The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Windows SDK combines two formerly separate SDKs: the Platform SDK (PSDK) and the .NET Framework SDK. For more information on the Windows SDK, visit our MSDN Developer Center." href="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/" target="_blank">SDK Development Team</a> has released the source code to <a title=".NET Terrarium 2.0 source code now available!" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2008/07/16/net-terrarium-2-0-source-code-now-available.aspx" target="_blank">Terrarium .NET 2.0</a>!!!        </p> <p align="left"><strong>Heaven help me if <a title="Visual Computing Developer Community" href="http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/communities/visualcomputing" target="_blank">Intel</a> went into this business!!  (J/K-....LOL/NOT)</strong></p> <p align="left">Oh, and the <a href="http://dotnetjeff.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank">SPACES (the one I thought was a blog)</a>, my brain is tired...but it does look cool.  Much more than the original MySpace pages I have seen.</p> <p align="left">Next week:</p> <p align="left">My Adventure down the <strong><em>WPF Trail</em></strong></p> </td> </tr> </table> <img src="http://blogs.windowsclient.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=47931" width="1" height="1">JaDaarhttp://blogs.windowsclient.net/members/JaDaar.aspx