Archive for June, 2004

Mining the net

I just got my most recent email notification from SourceForge, and their “project of the month” is AWStats. It looks very full featured and provides some great analytical infromation. If you need to do any trend or usage analysis for your own web sites, this looks like a great place to start. Another fascinating site […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 25th, 2004 under IT Industry | 1 Comment »

We need more stress!

Robert Love and I have been running into some concurrency problems with the custom InterBase data access provider for .Text he developed for this blog server. At the suggestion of Shane Hausle from Borland’s QA department, I downloaded and installed Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool. It was easy to install and start using. You […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 18th, 2004 under CodeGear products, CDN | 3 Comments »

A word about blogging

All this sound and fury about blogging and its extreme hype as the hottest fad on the Internet has prompted me to coin a new phrase: blogillation. Here’s the definition: blogillation is preferring to spend time reading, searching, writing, and commenting on blog entries rather than doing just about anything else on your computer. For the […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 18th, 2004 under Personal | Comment now »

Posting options for .Text

.Text is a very feature-rich blog server. In fact, it’s so feature rich, that the options for posting a given blog entry border on "way too many!" The default dialog for creating or editing a post includes the title of the post, the body of the post (which is HTML), and the categories to which […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 18th, 2004 under CDN | 1 Comment »

Getting close

Several of us here at Borland have been banging on this new version of .Text, getting familiar with it, and finding the holes. Robert Love’s been really responsive and good at fixing them. He’s almost done implementing the web services calls for the BDP Blog Provider .Text uses to talk to InterBase. He evidently didn’t […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 7th, 2004 under CDN | 2 Comments »

Tidying up HTML exported from MS Word

One of my pet peeves is the extremely verbose and over-enthusiastic output tags generated by MS Word when you export a document with the plainest HTML Word supports. Fortunately, both Delphi for .NET and C#Builder include HTMLTidy as one of the HTML reformatting options included in the WYSIWYG HTML and ASP.NET designer. HTMLTidy has a […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 4th, 2004 under CodeGear products | 2 Comments »

It’s alive!

The Borland blog server has been created. It’s a version of .Text that implements the Borland Data Provider architecture as a blog provider, and InterBase as the back end database. It’s a relatively full-featured blogging engine supported by a variety of blogging tools. It is highly customizable, including support for modifying the appearance of each person’s […]

Posted by John Kaster on June 3rd, 2004 under IT Industry, CDN | 7 Comments »

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