Scott Hanselman

Some one has started comment spamming me. What's the comment spam solution for dasBlog (other than turning them off?)

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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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Ya, ya, the graphics are great, game of the year, whee.

What's REALLY interesting is the ASP.NET application that runs Bungie.NET. You can link your Passport and XBox Live Gamer Tag and get statistical data on every game you (or anyone) has ever played.  You can get details on clans, maps, friends, everything.

For example, here's a game (#650296) where Robert McLaws spanked me. Here's every game I played last night. Here's the details on Clan "Zen."

There's a depth to their data gathering that goes far beyond the game itself, and beyond anything XBox Live or any major massively multiplayer thing I've ever seen.

Additionally, are you ready for this? To the right here is a "GameViewer" with a view of each game, including perspectives on exactly where Robert kicked my ass in this specific game instance.

If that's not all? How about an RSS Feed of all my Halo 2 games? 

Drink that in my friends. I wonder if there's some OLAP in there. I'd be fascinated to see the database schema.

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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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Good Part: John Batdorf showed me that they've already hacked Google Desktop to search more file types.  Google Desktop Search Plus (GDSPlus) from Larry Gadea will search more kinds of text files (XML, SQL, BAT) as well as source files!

Scary Part: You have to installed patched binaries. Oy. Not for the faint of heart.

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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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The stunning Betsy Aoki, the Community Program Manager for MSDN and TechNet emailed me earlier with details on my recent GotDotNet troubles. (Reminder, I met Betsy at a recent Nerd Dinner. She found me to be dapper, and preceded to be cyber-stalked by one Phil Weber ;) )

Betsy has kindly pointed out that most of the GDN problems are caused by what she calls "unclean Passport cookies." I'm unclear on why I'm unclean, but a clear of the browser cookies and cache and a little mercurachrome cleared the whole thing right up.

She has also seen fit to update the GotDotNet FAQ with all the details on how to fix troubles you may have.

Turns out that not all that fails to glitter fails on the server-side, if I may mix my metaphors. The new GDN FAQ has good information that solved my problem; do spread the word to people in need of assistance.

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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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This is less of a technical post than it is a complaint. GotDotNet.com's Workspaces have been down since Friday and are reporting a generic error.  There's no news, no announcement and no ETA. Frankly, it's very frustrating and very unprofessional.  I participate in a number of projects up on GDN and I do apprecaite it's existence. But, if Workspaces isn't given the respect it deserves, folks will start using SourceForge (more than they already do).

A lot of people on a lot of listservs, public and private, and lamented the lack of attention and feeding that GDN has received. What's your thoughts? Has GDN seen its hayday, or is this just a minor bump on the road?

Now playing: Amel Larrieux - Make Me Whole

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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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