Just want to let any DasBlog developer types who may not have heard that the lastest test code is availble here: http://dasblog.info/dbftp/

Remember the real approved final vesion/s will be released at SourceForge here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=127624 

Enjoy!

I spent the better part of the afternoon today trying to get the code for a customer page that would use the generic Google site search to validate to xhtml, not the new adsense, but just plain old search. The code that Google provides is no where near xhtml 1.1 compliant.

Well I finally did customize the code where it works, and validates. I wish somebody had posted this for me!! So here is is for anybody who needs it! The CSS searchbar stuff is not important for function, just layout.

<div id="searchbar">
<h2>Search This Site</h2>
<!-- SiteSearch Google -->
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Google"><img width="75" height="32" title ="Google" src="images/Logo_25wht.gif" alt="Google" /></a><br />
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
 <div><input type="hidden" name="domains" value="http://banjara.us" />
<input type="text" name="q" size="19" maxlength="255" value="" />
 </div>
 <div>
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" />Web
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="http://banjara.us" checked="checked" />Banjara.us
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
 </div>
</form>
</div>
<!-- SiteSearch Google -->

Announcement: http://dasBlog.us User Forums now active.

In attempt to encourage more user community collaboration in support of the opensource "DasBlog" blogging software project the subject forums have been created. The forums at SourceForge are now depreciated.

Please support your DasBlog community, links back to your DasBlog support entries are encouraged!

The documentation is at the htp://dasblog.info and the Development team still resides at SourceForge.

This is a little flash mp3 player, I didn't code it, but I did mod it to add mp3 file tag reading!

It now displays track title and artist/album. Also, the original was designed for inclusion in a full flash page with draging. I modified it to be a stand alone mini player. 

Due to www delays sometimes you need to hit the song button a second time to get the tag data! (Iwill look into that problem some day???)

Hosting provider (Godaddy, not our new host BoundGrid.net) has just killed the database before even the first backup, the grand opening will be delayed!

It is official (the http://www.dasblog.us User Forum is on-line).

I understand the format is beta or draft and I am sure the community will make a lot of changes over the next few days to weeks, but it's "here now" to support the DasBlog user community!

Check it out! http://www.dasblog.us

Very interesting article:  "The reason is very simple: Capacity. There’s a limit to how much information an individual can process and I think that by now, Microsoft managed to push the feature depth to the point where I can’t fit Visual Studio and related technologies into my head all at once any longer....."

Visual Studio Overload And The Specialization Gamble

Of course Clemens calls himself a generalist, when in actuality it's all relative. For me as an IT operations manager type, Clemens looks like a real specialist.

While I am no programmer, I do dabble, but I try to keep up (a little), in all the camps, .NET and J2EE (MS vs Linux). It's bad when you have to support customers in either camp or some who have projects in both. I work with/for the Department of Defense who has .NET and J2EE systems not to mention a ton of other technology old and new.

I have to keep conversationally aware of issues around DB2 and SQL2005, not to mention some who use MySqL or Oracle. And issues like Oracle's recent raid (purchase) of MySql contract teaming partner. It's enough to make your head spin. I would love to focus just on MS products.

OK here is the most exhaustive list of geek tools I have ever seen, it's true that if your not a Windows centric developer some will be of little value. I had no idea some of these even existed! 

Love this list: RoboSapient approved!

Thanks Scott!

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List