Scott Hanselman

I've been using Visual Studio 2005 for the last months without many problems. Last week during the CodeCamp the keyboard totally locked up. Brad Wilson said that this was a totally known bug.

Now, suddenly I can't run Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 for more than 30 seconds without the editor becoming completely unresponsive to the keyboard. Certainly this is a weird bug, but the weirdest thing, to me, is that it started suddenly and now the whole environment is totally unusable. I mean, I've used Beta 2 to every day since it was released and this keyboard thing JUST started.

It's totally soured me. It may be related to the AutoHide Windows. The VS Editor Blog confirms it. Madness.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Well, a few kind people offered to help test, but no one stepped up to help me fully develop WatirMaker. I'm a little surprised and slightly bummed, actually, as I thought this was an ideavirus that would generate enough enthusiasm that I could put together a team (maybe a half-dozen) and start up a SourceForce project. I'd be happy to do that, but with work for the first 12 hours of the day and life for the other 12 hours with DasBlog for the final 12 hours of the day, I can't do it by myself. :)

But, alas, nope, so here's the source to my sad little 0.01 version. It sucks and was powered by Diet Rite. Remember it's a prototype if anything. However, do please let me know if you do turn it into anything.

In the meantime, Michael Kelly and I are looking at rewriting WatirMaker entirely in Ruby, thinking that the Ruby/Watir community might dig that idea more.

File Attachment: WatirMaker.zip (62 KB)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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We've been cleaning and painting in anticipation of the baby's arrival. I found this in a pile of old photos. I'm the big-headed child on the right. That's Uhura (the actress Nichelle Nichols) on the left. My dad pulled me out of school that day to meet her at the opening of the movie. This is at the Portland, OR opening of Star Trek IV in 1986. My dad's pretty cool like that. I remember planning what I was going to say for days before and completely fuzzing out in person. She's a pretty stunning woman. Anyway, finding the picture made me smile and think of the stuff my (upcoming) son and I will do.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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UPDATE: Lots of testers and readers installed this RC and found some good bugs. Image uploading was slightly broken in this build, so if you haven't upgraded, hang back a bit. Remember that all bug reports should be filed on SourceForge, not sent to Omar and I directly. Feature requests should be filed also. We'll do another RC and/or possibly the 1.8 Gold Release later this week. There are also a few more features sneaking in, including 'pluggable' pings to blog sites like Technorati.

What are you doing this weekend? Why not install DasBlog 1.8 RC1? (as always back up your data!)

New Features of Note

• Anti-Spam Features
• Automatic Referral and Trackback blacklist update
• CAPTCHA for non-admin users
• Logging and display of Comment IP addresses and resolved Hostnames for Admins
• DasBlogUpgrader can strip spam from existing content folders
• Support for rel="nofollow"
• Ability to delete referrals and trackbacks directly from the Admin UI
• Security Features
• HttpOnly cookies
• Admin access auditing
• SMTP Authentication for outgoing mail
• Syndication Features
• Improved RSS Comments support for SharpReader and RSS Bandit
• Upgraded Atom support from 0.3 to Valid Atom 1.0. Syndication permalink changes but 301 is issued.
• RSS 2.0 validates via FeedValidator.
• Ability to mark entries as "syndicated" or not. Entries can appear on the site but not in RSS/Atom.
• Performance Features
• Search Highlighting is optional now
• Referrals are logged but not stored in XML by default. Configurable.
  (This has huge performance benefits for high traffic sites.)
• DasBlog Upgrader can optionally remove all referrals.
  (Again with high traffic sites some folks had 5meg XML files full of referrals)
• Theme templates are now cached in memory.
• Content Features
• Ability to pre- and post-date entries
• Permalinks based on Title and Date optional: 2005/06/06/title.aspx
• Latest build of Free Text Box including ability to upgrade FTB without upgrading DasBlog.
• Text Editor (FTB) supports FireFox
• Blog Statistics macro
• Mail-To-Weblog continues to improves. Works with Thunderbird.
• Extensibility Features
• Custom Macro Plugin model without recompiling DasBlog
• Theme Features
• DasBlog now ships with 16 themes and a Theme Combo to change between them.
• New theme.manifest file makes themes and image assets more portable.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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After a small bit of work today, DasBlog 1.8 will (does) produce valid Atom 1.0 feeds. This is response to the bakededness of Atom 1.0 and Sam's desire to deprecate 0.3. DasBlog won't produce Atom 0.3 anymore (it was always marked under "experimental' anyway) so when you upgrade to 1.8 your Atom feed will upgrade automatically.

We do, as always, produce valid RSS 2.0 and now Atom 1.0. Here's a list of known Atom 1.0 consumers if you care.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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