blogs

books or blogs?

I've got lots of technical books-- 'bricks' I call them since most of them are in the 700 page range. I love these tech books and I can generally read those 700 pages much quicker than I can a novel of the same length. Go figure… However, as much as I love them, it seems their shelf-life is getting shorter all the time and I find myse...

Objective-C Bloggers

I've been primarily developing in c# for the last few years and have found that staying up-to-date with some of the best c# blogs (Ayende, Jeremy Miller, Greg Young, Phil Haack, et al) has been invaluable. So, I'm just getting into objective-c and iPhone development and am wondering who are the top bloggers I should be keeping up with ar...

Domain Specific Language Bloggers

I have a current need to greatly increase my knowledge around DSLs. Who are the big names in DSLs? What blogs should I be reading? ...

What language should I use to create a simple text-formatting application online?

I want to make a page for a website that will let the user create a blog post, and want them to be able to graphically edit the formatting, like paragraphs and styles, then convert this to html. Is there a way to do it in PHP? Do I need to use Javascript or Ajax or something? ...

blogengine without php or asp.net etc.

Is there a way to have a blog directly integrated into my HTML/javascript-only website, without having to have something like a SQL-database and a dynamic engine like PHP or MySQL? Maybe there is some service in the web that offers this (hopefully without ads :) ). Or maybe I can have a blog engine entirely written in javasript? ...

What is a good blog host for displaying code?

Duplicate: Which blog service has the best code syntax highlighting? What's a good blog host for code? Most I've found either royally screw up the formatting or are so narrow you can't actually show code. ...

Is there a multi-blog admin interface for WordPress blogs installed completely separately?

I'm an administrator of 10-20 separate WordPress blogs, and it's a big pain for me to login to all of them separately. Is there some sort of interface that allows me to do a single-sign-on administration of all of them, like there is under a WordPress MU umbrella? If so, what's it called? I don't even know the term I'd use to search for...

What blogs/websites are the best central source of information on CouchDB?

I'm trying to find information about CouchDB and it seems quite sparse or not centralized at least. What blogs/websites are the best central source of information on CouchDB? Are there any books on the subject? ...

WCF for MetaWeblog

I'm trying to find a really good example for implementing the MetaWeblog API using a WCF service. I can't seem to clear my head and think of a clean way to do this. Any help is appreciated. ...

What the best XNA blog?

I know good general programming blogs (like coding horror ;) ). But I want very good specific XNA blog. Suggestions? ...

What well-architectured weblog package(s) do you recommend?

I'm looking for some weblog software to use/extend, but all the ones I've looked at so far are terribly written - attempting to work with them is far too effortful and depressing. I'm looking for something that is well architectured and easy to change - modular code, distinct Model-View-Controller layers, sensible data structure, and so...

Finding a blog site with good code block support.

This has probably been asked before but I can't find any relevant post using the search system. I'm looking for a site where I could host my own blog. Unfortunately, I found none that have the kind of code block friendliness found on our very own stackoverflow (not one where you have to manually convert < and > into &lt; and &gt;). If ...

Does ASP.NET's BlogEngine.Net Stack Up to Wordpress?

I'm somewhat familiar with Wordpress and I've used it a little. There is a huge community with tons of plugins and themes etc. Does the BlogEngine.Net compare favorably? Is there another .NET CMS that you would recommend? Thanks for your help. ...

What Do You Need To Write Your Own Blog Engine?

I've been messing around with basic websites for a few years, using companies like www.Fasthosts.co.uk to do my web hosting. But I'd like to expand my skills from C++ and Java app programming into Web-based programming, and I think the best way to do that is with a project. I've chosen to go with a blog engine because it's a relative com...

Formatting code snippets for blogging on Blogger

My blog is hosted on Blogger and I frequently post code snippets in C / C# / Java / XML etc. but I find the snippet gets "mangled". Are there any web sites that I could use to parse the snippet beforehand and sort out the formatting, convert XML "<" to "<" etc. There are a numbers of questions around this area on SO but I couldn't find...

Changing URL schemes in wordpress without breaking old URLs

I started a blog and after a couple posts decided I didn't like the /2009/03/26/foo-bar scheme for URLs (I changed to just /foo-bar). But for the couple posts posted before I changed this, I want to add rewrite rules so the old URLs don't break. I've tried every variation of the following I could think of in the .htaccess file, to no a...

How to prevent getting sued for hosting "Fake" Creative Commons image?

Say if I own a blog site for multiple users like wordpress, say blogsss.com, and every user hosts their blog under a subdomain *.blogsss.com. UserA post a JPEG that UserA claims it is under Creative Commons, but actually it isn't. Then UserB, C, and D use that JPEG, without knowing it is actually not under Creative Commons. A few mo...

DotNetNuke Pros and cons for community blogging site.

I'm evaluating DotNetNuke for a project in which an offshore team is going to be doing the development. In short, the application will be a community blogging platform with many similarities to stackoverflow except no questions, just posts. Posts may include an image or video, tags, use info, title, body, community vote (up or down) comm...

The Best News Feeds for Web Developers, RSS

To all of you great web applications developers. Please, share where do you grab the latest news on this subject: cool blogs, articles, podcasts etc. related to web-based applications development. Help to rate those resouces from the most interesting to least. Note: It's OK if you list sources which someone else already mentioned, unles...

Facebook Wall functionality using ASP.Net??? Any Ideas?

I want to create something similiar to a facebook wall on my social site. I want to store the posts in an sql database and that should be rather simple. What I am looking for is a good way to display the posts? I guess I don't even really know where to start, as I can only think of using a loop to display asp:textboxes. Which obviously i...