August 2006 - Posts
Our local New England Developer Evangelist slash Super Star, Thom Robbins, has made it official that he’s accepted a new role within Microsoft. This is obviously fantastic news for him and I know he’s going to do well in his new position. Of course it is sad that he will be leaving New England to work in Redmond, but he can leave knowing he’s done a great job of improving and strengthening our local development community.
Congratulations and best of luck to you, Thom!
-Chris
Based on my earlier post, I had a request for the steps I followed to get Windows Live Writer working with my DotNetJunkies blog. Here's the process that worked for me:
- From Windows Live Writer, choose Weblog->Add Weblog Account...
- "Choose Blog Type" Screen
- Select "Another weblog service"
- "Weblog Homepage and Login" Screen
- "Select Provider" Screen
- Set Type of weblog to "Community Server"
- Set the Remote post URL for your weblog to http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog.ashx
- At
this point, I get an "Unable to Download Template" error, meaning the
Windows Live Writer editor won't display my post using my blog's
style. However, everything else still works and, once posted, the
site shows the post with the correct style.
- "Weblog Configuration" Complete Screen
- Click Finish, leaving the "Switch to this weblog now" option checked.
Also
note that I've been having to open the post's Properties in WLW to
enable the Date/Time checkbox in order to avoid a date-related error
when I try to publish.
Hope this helps,
-Chris
Huge congratulations go out to my friend and co-author Jean-Luc David for joining Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist! Jean-Luc mentioned things were in the works during TechEd, but nothing was official yet. So Jean-Luc, I'll raise a beer in your honor later tonight. :)
Jean-Luc is a fantastic guy and incredibly passionate about Team System and the Microsoft developer community. I'm sure he's doing to do very well in his new job! Noah Coad (also a great guy and co-author) has more details on his blog.
-Chris
Summer vacations and time with my family have kept me away from my blog for too long. To test the waters again, I'm trying out the Windows Live Writer beta to help create this post. It took a few Google hits to find the secret recipe for getting it to work with the particular Community Server install at DotNetJunkies, but it seems to be working now.
If you can read this, then Live Writer did it's job. :)
-Chris