Tidbits & Tangents

Tangents

• Dec 4 2009

  Differentiating Boogaloo

  Posted on Friday, December 04, 2009

  Yesterday, Lisa Spangenberg posted a comment on The Benefits of a Content Management System (CMS) making a very good point that Mindfly Web Design Studio has not adequately differentiated Boogaloo from several other applications.

• Nov 2 2009

  Boogaloo - Mindfly Web Design Studio's Open Source Debut

  Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009

  A little more than three years ago I began outlining a Content Management System (CMS) based on the needs of my business, Mindfly Web Design Studio.  I spent the first two years and quite a few weekends , coding nearly every night and came up with an initial version.  Once completed, the studio began doing some internal and external usability studies and has spent the better part of a year completely reworking the interface.  The studio staff overwhelmingly decided to name it Boogaloo and I am very pleased to announce its open source debut on Codeplex.

• Oct 15 2009

  Wrox is a good place to start

  Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009

  I was going through my programming reference books the other day and it surprised me how many books I own published by Wrox.  As I thumbed through several of the older ASP books, now commonly referred to as Classic ASP, and progressed through the most recent addition to my collection Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0  it became obvious how influential Wrox has been in my career.  I have books with subjects ranging from Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET (SEO) to Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals.  I even have A Preview of Active Server Pages+ (which was the name for ASP.NET before it was ASP.NET).

• Jul 18 2008

  Washington State Destination Based Sales Tax

  Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008

  The newly approved destination based sales tax (Substitute Senate Bill 5089 - Streamlined Sales Tax) in Washington State has been causing a lot of headaches for the small e-commerce store owner.   Basically this law forces every Washington State business that sells products online to tax orders made by customers within Washington State at the tax rate at the delivery address rather than that of the originating store. 

• May 14 2008

  Url rewriting and SEO duplicate content issues - Canonicalization, HTTP Headers and other topics that can keep you from making friends

  Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008

  At one time I was a Civil Engineer. I seriously have the degree. Amongst my friends, it was the generally acknowledged that I was the only one that was not allowed to talk about their job when we got together. And yep, nothing has changed. I would need to be equipped with a defibrillator to keep most of them in a discussion that revolved around a word like canonicalization. However, when it comes to your website and SEO, not understanding this process can really affect the way your site is indexed and perhaps even lead to more serious problems.

• Mar 26 2008

  How to set a password for a user when using the ASP.NET Membership Provider and hashed passwords

  Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008

  I have been a huge fan of the provider model that ships with ASP.NET from the start.  I especially love the ASP.NET Membership provider as it has saved me literally days of time coding and recoding user management functionality --- over and over and over.  You get the point.