Settling in and linking to the world
Okay, I've got this .Text thing down pat now. I've been blogging for a few years now with the original sin, Blogger (wayback before Google capitalized on it when it was just a spark in Evan's eyes). Now I'm juggling a few blogs on various subjects but I'm happy with where things are.
I did have to spend a couple of hours tonight (which I'm sure people will consider a waste) copying all my RSS bookmarks into RSS Bandit so now I've got a single source for my geek-news aggregation. I've also added the noteworthy ones to this site in the appropriate categories (mostly SharePoint). Of course this meant I had to go through an exasperating sequence:
- Launch the site in my browser
- Copy the shortcut to the RSS feed
- Create a new feed in RSS Bandit
- Create a new link in this site
- Paste the RSS link
- Copy and paste the web URL
- Enter the name of the site
- Lather, rinse, repeat
Whew. Well, now that that's done it's over. Bandit is happily churning away grabbing news and telling me when something I might consider useful in the world changes, which is a much better model than me visiting a few dozen websites looking for something useful (and usually finding dribble). I highly recommend RSS Bandit (or similar news aggregator, but Bandit is Open Source and written in .NET) to get on top of these things.
I've also added a new link group called Articles. .Text is a great system and lets you post articles rather than blog postings for whatever you see fit. The recommendation is to create a post in your blog about an article with a link to it, but after that blog rolls off your active list how can you access it? So the brain fart came over me to create a link group called Articles and post them there. I've added the first one that I'm pretty proud of which is a Workshop template you can use to ease people into Adopting Agile Practices into the Enterprise. It was assembled from some ideas I've had and tidbits of info I found on the net around the benefits of Agile and XP. I've applied it to a typical waterfall type development group/PM where I work with a lot of success. I'm planning on getting all new .NET development following it in the new year so if you have any suggestions on the content feel free to leave a comment in the article. I'll be updating it as I find tweaks to the Workshop.
Finally I imported a large MVP list into my MSN so for those of you who are wondering who the heck is this guy it's me. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.