Why I switched to Wordpress
Feb 8th
Deciding to switch from BlogEngine.Net was something I did struggled with. I felt some loyalty to it though, because primarily I am an .Net developer. So making this decision was not easy at first, but after careful consideration of what was important to me the decision was easy.
I switched to Wordpress because BlogEngine.Net just wasn’t More >
Importing BlogML to Wordpress
Feb 1st
I was using BlogEngine.NET, so I went to the main administrator page and exported my blog to a BlogML file on my computer.
Make sure your exported xml file is in UTF-8 format.
Install Wordpress on you favorite hosting provider. On many hosting providers this is a few click process that runs an auto installer.
Wordpress does not More >
Updated the blog
Jan 25th
For those of you who actually visit casadevega and not view it through your favorite rss reader, you would have seen that my blog as gone through a complete redesign. What you might have not noticed is that I switch blogging software, from BlogEngine.NET to Wordpress (I will go into why in a later post). More >
Moderating Comment
Jul 27th
I have decided to start moderating comments after being spamed for the last few days. So if you leave a comment, I will eventually approved it if I feel it isn't spam.
jQuery Ribbon
May 25th
I just came across another fantastic plug-in for jQuery, my favorite javascript framework. It is the Ribbon plug-in and it looks amazing. It almost exactly like the ribbon in Office 2010.It supports access keys, themes, lists, groups, forms, and dropdown menus. The demo page can be found at http://vinkr.net/ribbon. The code can be found on More >
TechEd 2009 Presenters keeping their cool
May 14th
I have attended two session where the same repeated problem kept happening to the presenters.
The first SOA201 A First Look at WCF and WF in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 with Aaron Skonnard. For some unknown reason, the slides where advancing without Aaron actually moving them forward. It could have been an evil trick being More >
Getting E-mail to work with Blogengine.net and Webhost4life
May 13th
I realized, while I was here at TechEd 2009, that email wasn’t working for this blog. I use for my blogging software and my hosting provider is . In order to get it to work just go into your setting in blogengine.net and just type mail.webhost4life.com in the SMTP field and turn off SSL. More >
The T-Shirts of TechEd 2009
May 12th
After the expo last night, I took photos of all the t-shirts I collected. I have both the fronts and the backs pictured. If there is a shirt that I am missing and want it displayed here, make a comment and I will stop by and pick one up and add it to the photos More >
TechEd 2009 & T-Shirts
May 11th
Last year at TechEd I attempted to run around the partner expo and get every t-shirt possible. The fruits of my labor was the post The T-Shirts of TechEd 2008 Developers. I will attempt to recreate the greatness of last years post.
If any of the partners would like to help me out, please comment on More >
TechEd Attendance hurt by economy?
May 11th
At the keynote this morning it was mentioned that there where only seven thousand attendees. I guess with current state of the worldwide economy some of the first things to go is training/conferences, in my opinion it is a mistake. By sending someone to a great confernce, you can learn to better use the tools More >