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Thoughts on blog comments
This morning, I saw a tweet from Mike Figliuolo where he was sounding off about an anonymous comment on one of his blog posts, indicating that he’d left a “scathing reply”, and asking for reactions. As so often is the case, I started to leave a comment on his blog, but as it grew, I [...]
Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin
In a recent post, I wanted to break out a paragraph into a callout or sidebar — a little box of goodness inset into the body of my post. This proved rather more difficult than I’d planned. Initially, I crafted the callout by hand, using a DIV for the box, and two DIVs within that [...]
Azure isn’t supposed to do this!
I’m doing some research on Azure (finally playing with the bits), and in the process, spending some time cruising Steve Marx’s blog. Steve presented some Azure stuff at PDC earlier this year, and there’s some great stuff on his blog if you’re working with Azure for the first time. One of the things you’ll learn [...]
Zemanta is a blogger’s best friend
Shortly before I switched this blog to WordPress, I learned about a new tool called Zemanta. It was supposed to provide context-sensitive links and images, chosen dynamically to be relevant to the work in progress. It sounded pretty cool, and I tried to set it up under Drupal, but couldn’t quite get it done. After [...]
WordPress SEO optimization ROCKS!
One of the things I noticed shortly after switching this blog to WordPress was the terrific support for SEO optimization. WordPress does a very good job of this itself, with good support for keywords, Meta tags, and so on, but there are also some really fantastic plugins for WordPress that kick it up a notch [...]
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