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New Software Running ScottOnWriting.NET
27 May 10 10:50 PM | Scott Mitchell | 6 comment(s)

When I started this blog in July 2003 there weren't many available blog engines build atop ASP.NET. One of the more interesting ones at the time was Scott Watermasysk 's .Text blog engine (which eventually became part of Community Server . Over the past...

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Search Your Site Using Google's Custom Search Engine
15 September 08 08:51 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Remember when people used to debate what search engine was the best among the bunnch? Do you remember back in the day when Yahoo! differentiated itself from other search engines by having actual human beings catalog, summarize, and rate large swaths of...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Blog Enhancements

Giving a CAPTCHA a Whirl
06 July 06 05:17 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Comment spam is evil. I've been getting on the tune of 25-50 comment spams per day the past several weeks. My custom utility to quickly delete comments in .Text has helped delete comment spams after the fact; additionally, SQL triggers have, to date,...

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Quickly Deleting Comments in .Text
28 March 06 12:27 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

While I'm certain that Community Server has the ability to easily delete comments en mass, this blog still uses Scott Watermasysk 's close to originally-released version of .Text (gasp!). I've been meaning to upgrade, I promise, but with the assorted...

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FeedBurner Summary
15 September 05 12:33 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

In August I moved over my RSS feed from the default .Text RSS feed source ( Rss.aspx ) to using FeedBurner 's free service. Part of the challenge in this process was having existing subscribers automatically switch from using Rss.aspx to using FeedBurner...

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FeedBurner and Changing a Blog's Feed URL
28 August 05 05:23 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

This weekend I moved over my RSS feed - previously http://ScottOnWriting.NET/sowBlog/Rss.aspx - to a feed managed by FeedBurner ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottOnWriting ). FeedBurner serves as a sort of feed URL proxy. Basically you give FeedBurner...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Miscellaneous, Blog Enhancements

Searching Your Blog Got a Whole Lot Easier
01 February 05 09:54 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

If you check out the ScottOnWriting.NET homepage you'll now find that in the upper-left hand corner there's a spiffy “Search” box. Go ahead, type a query in there... you'll be redirected to http://scottonwriting.net/Search.aspx?s=ScottOnWriting.NET&count...

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My AggBug Experiment
13 October 04 09:58 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

This blog is powered by Scott Watermasysk 's .Text blogging engine, but it's an older version of the software, one that doesn't support statistics. More recent versions of .Text provide a rough estimate as to how many folks have read your blog through...

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The Highest Rated Entries
30 April 04 11:54 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

A couple weeks ago I enhanced my blog so that readers could rate blog entries . I even wrote an article with the requisite SQL queries and User Control code and markup on 4Guys: Creating a Content Reader . I decided to take a few minutes out of my day...

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Follow-Up to Allowing Readers to Rate Blog Entries
19 April 04 12:27 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

In an ealier entry I discussed a new feature I added to allow my blog readers to rate individual blog entries, much like one can rate the articles on MSDN . I have written an article on creating the content rater at 4Guys called, aptly, Creating a Content...

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Enhancing Your .Text Blog - Allowing Readers to Rate Blog Entries
15 April 04 04:12 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

One of the things I really like about .Text is just how easy it is to customize and enhance it. Of course, the complete source is available, so you can customize to your heart's content, but I'm talking about customizing it without modifying the source...

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Some More Interesting (To Me) Comment Statistics
28 March 04 11:03 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

After posting yesterday's analysis of comments on my blog , I decided to run a few more statistics. My previous entry examined if there was a correlation between when a blog was posted (either day of the week or hour of the day) and how many comments...

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Analyzing Your .Text Blog
27 March 04 11:30 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

I'll be the first to admit it - I love statistics. I like seeing pretty graphs and numbers and sums and averages and calculations and standard deviations and variances and forecasts and trends. Anyway, one thing that annoys me with blogs is that it's...

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Giving .Text a Calendar View
12 February 04 09:13 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Many blog engines provide a calendar view when visiting the blog via the Web. Typically the calendar shows the current month, with days that have one or more entries rendered as hyperlinks. Clicking on the link for a given day displays the posts for that...

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