Tiernan's Comms Closet

Scott Hanselman has a series of posts called "The Weekly Source Code" in which he reads though different bits of code and learns about it. This week he is looking at API wrappers for Web2.0 services like Flickr, Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, etc. Very cool stuff.

Its only postponed for a few days, but i have had to postpone the move of my workstation to Windows Server 2008, and the rest of my checks on the OS, till probably next week. the reason is because this blog is now hosted on the Mac Pro, which is the workstation i am upgrading.
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When i moved from Community Server to Graffiti, my RSS Feed end point, by default, moved from /rss.aspx to /feed. Since the rss.aspx request was being handled by Community Server and automatically 301ed the user to FeedBurner, most Feed readers had that as their endpoint. the problem is that there is no rss.aspx with Graffiti, [...]

Its taken the last couple of hours, but Finally, the blog is now Running Graffiti! Community Server has good, while it lasted, but it started to get too big to manage. Graffiti is now nice and small, and portable! I would like to Thank Jayme Davis over at Telligent for helping me with some problems, [...]

Testing Graffiti on my new blog. Some minor problems, but hopefully live soon…

I found a company called Nirvanix, and started looking into what they are doing. its an Amazon S3 competitor. but, they way its done is interesting. They have 2 options: base storage or Global Storage Delivery Network. Base storage is much like Amazon S3: Store in either US or EU data centre. your charged 18c [...]

In part 1, I said I hoped most of my apps (expect for Media Sharing and Live Writer) would work in Windows Server 2008. Well, my next test is Photography software, and the big one for me is Photoshop LightRoom. And, well, it works! No problems. I haven’t done much with it, other than load [...]

So, I have done some testing with a Virtualized Win2k8 Image and found out some interesting things. Firstly, you can install Windows Media Player on your Win2k8 server by selecting Desktop Experience in the Features section of the Server Manager. Problem is that Media sharing is not enabled, and by the looks of my searching [...]

So, Hyper-V, the virtualization technology for Windows 2008, has reached RC0. John Howard has a post detailing the steps required to install this on a machine. there has also been talk about how good Windows 2008 Server will be as a Workstation and it has started me thinking: Is it time to upgrade the MacPro [...]

Vista SP1 has been released. Vista team have info here. [Via Alexia] I have been running this for the last couple of months, even the RC and BETA builds, and i am very happy with it. Also, if you are not reading this though an RSS reader (my feed, by the way, is at http://feeds.lotas-smartman.net/lotas, [...]