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The best method of displaying nicely formatted code in a blog post in my experience is a Visual Studio plugin called CopySourceAsHtml . Once the plugin is installed simply select the code you want to display and choose Copy As HTML. A clean HTML representation of your code will be copied onto the clipboard which can then be pasted into your blog editor of choice (I like Windows Live Writer ). The nice...

I like Twitter . The idea behind it is you post a short message about what you are up to and it then appears to anyone who has subscribed to your updates. It takes my favourite feature of Facebook , status updates, and then removes all the other crud. The nice thing about updates (or "tweets" if you want to look like douche) is that they are passive. They don't fill up an inbox like email so you can...

If you regularly visit my blog ( subscribe already! ) you may have noticed the design has been updated. Here is a comparison between the old and the new. Click for a bigger image: I threw out the old design and started with a template called EliteCircle , which I have made some fairly substantial updates to. I was a little hesitant about changing the CSS too much, the last time I had done any serious...

For anyone who hasn't heard about this site yet, DotNetKicks.com is a community based news website. Basically it is a lot like Digg in that users submit and vote on articles, but unlike Digg it is focused exclusively on .NET news. Because the readers of DotNetKicks.com are all .NET developers, and they are the people that vote on what is important, you can be sure that the quality of articles that...

When I moved my blog what seems like a while ago now, Technorati indexing broke. Today I finally decided to do something about it. After reading the FAQs and making sure it wasn't a problem here I emailed Technorati. Less than 20 minutes later they had read my email, fixed the issue, re-indexed this blog and sent a reply. Good job Technorati! More Posts Next page »