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Google Irony

By dlambert ⋅ October 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

You’ve probably heard of Blogger.  It’s a (duh) blogging tool, and it’s one of the most popular platforms available for casual bloggers.  It’s simple, easy to get started with, and it’s hosted (and owned) by Google. You know what else Google does?  They build a browser called Chrome.  Perhaps you’ve heard of it.  I’ve heard [...]

Thoughts on blog comments

By dlambert ⋅ September 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By dlambert ⋅ October 24, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

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!

By dlambert ⋅ July 20, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

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

By dlambert ⋅ October 22, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

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 [...]

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