If you don't know what dogfooding is, its to Eat one's own dog food. To say that a company "eats its own dog food" means that it uses the products that it makes.

Well I can't say I made DasBlog, but I sure helped a little with this version!

I really like all the new features, and I am not even sure of some of them, we had so many contributors and new features it will take me forever to get up to speed to help users with this new version and to start writing up the features at http://dasblog.info.

If you have an article on a new feature, or are some kind of expert on a feature, or are said contributor, please send me your articles, or give me permission to pinch what you have elsewhere! 

Version 1.9xxxx coming to a host near you soon!!!!!

Cheers

Tom

Well I've got to just rip off a quick post, I have been so busy supporting the DasBlog community that I just about don't blog anymore <sad>.

Anyway I have fairly recently released a new DasBlog theme which I submitted to be included in the next DasBlog release and it failed the FireFox test. Boy was I embarrassed. I had called myself checking it out but I will admit not very closely at least in FireFox.

At any rate I spent untold hours trying to track down the problem, and along come  Justice Gray one of the better DasBlog developer contributors and volunteered to help me out.

He found 99% of the problems in 10 minutes. Apprantley he has and uses all those fancy FireFox development tools. YEAH!!!!!

I got Scott Hanselman to check the theme in this afternoon and by all appearances, the level of activity at Sourceforge we should see DasBlog 1.9 any day now!

Soon I will be hip deep in trying to support the role out and the user community.

Take Care

Ok just a few rambles here,

#1. I continue to test Newz Crawler, so far it is one of my favorite RSS writer / remote blogger engines! ( I wish it had a built in spell checker, at least a browser based one, but so far I have not found one! This post will be another test of Newz Crawler...

#2. I review a lot of dasblog sites in my admin support duties (self appointed) over at dasblog.us , there are some very interesting blogs out there! I am partial to technical blogs, but I have found one that is artist centric ran by a techie that has caught my fancy. That blog would be @ http://idleminutes.com

#3. Scott has an interesting post over at his blog, "Is OPen Source a Crap Idea?" http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsOpenSourceACrapIdea.aspx I hope that last leading question doesn't mean he is considering moving away from dasblog and on too newer greener pastures. If that's where he's headed, (I would understand if he did), I just hope he's looking to pass the baton.

/End Musing v0.12345

While this is not one of my standard charity picks, I could not pass up Scott's request!

My father-in-law has diabetes, (not as bad as Scott's situation)! We all have someone dear that needs our help!

See Scott's blog for a very thought provoking monolog about this issue!

While you are there, help out and send The American Diabetes Association some $$$.

I can vouch for Scott's integrity, I even sent my contribution through him via Paypal!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TeamHanselmanAndDiabetesWalk2006.aspx

Ok a few weeks ago or even longer I blogged about how busy I am!  At that time I didn’t know the “half of it” as they say!

I just can’t find time to keep up with blogging here and supporting dasblog.us & dasblog.info, all are suffering <smile>…

There are a few new changes to this busy schedule, I started using FolderShare. It’s the best new thing in my techie life. http://www.foldershare.com.

I can’t count the times it has saved me time (pun) or from a mini disaster (no pun).

For two weekends in a row I have had personal server problems at home, (Exchange 2003 on PDC/you don’t really want to know the details) and FolderShare has unexpectedly saved the day.

Not only the sharing of designated folders on two or more computers but the feature where you can log into you FolderShare account and access any file on your host computers. That is the feature that was the unplanned lifesaver.

Just today it saved me an 85 mile drive home, yeah I do VPN and remote server etc. etc., and sometime it all lets you down, but not FolderShare.

And you can’t beat that for free!!!!