Lonely? Waiting for someone to write about your site? Looking for Link-Love? Now you can buy link-love!

Posted by on Oct 16, 2006 in Cool Stuff, The Cool Stuff | 0 comments

Blogsvertise.com is a pretty interesting concept. You pay bloggers to write permanent blog articles about a page/product on your site. These articles get distributed, spidered and links all over and you get instant link love. What’s this mean? Hrm how about Increased PageRank, Trust, Brand Recognition and oh yes LINK LOVE BABY! Let’s face it blogs are here to express personal...

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Posting To WordPress From Windows Live Editor

Posted by on Aug 22, 2006 in Cool Stuff, Web Applications, Web Technologies | 0 comments

This is a test post from within Windows Live Editor. Windows Live Editor is Microsoft’s new swiss army knife of blog editors. It’s actually really impressive. It supports several different types of blogs including Community Server and WordPress, as well as the popular blogging services. Really won’t go into that because there’s plenty of posts on the internet already...

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Meet the Source Force — Free Training Virtual Labs — Free Toys!

Posted by on Mar 23, 2006 in ASP.net, Cool Stuff | 0 comments

SDN has a a new thing they've been doing for the past couple months called Source Force. Promoting a series of *FREE*, have you noticed I really like free, this blog should be renamed to "Jess's list of free and cool tools", Anyway a series of Free Virtual Labs on the MSDN site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/. What's better than getting free training? Free toys! If...

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Free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Free ASP.net 2.0 Training

Posted by on Mar 13, 2006 in Applications, ASP.net, Cool Stuff | 0 comments

Microsoft, Dr. Dobbs and O'REILLY are offering Free ASP.net 2.0 training with courses for JSP, PHP and Coldfusion developers looking to migrate over to the dark side.  To sweeten the pie you also get a nice pack of freebies, including a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, a 50% discount on a MCP exam and some other goodies. Regardless it's a good deal and the training...

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/blog/ or /blogs/ or what? where do I go…

Posted by on Aug 26, 2005 in Cool Stuff | 0 comments

So I setup my fancy blog and am good to go. So I announce to my fellow geeks "hey I got a blog" and here's the address: http://www.jesscoburn.com/blog/  but only one problem.  My blog is actually at http://www.jesscoburn.com/blogs/ !!!  DOH!! Well, actually this isn’t a problem.  By utilizing ISAPI-rewrite from helicontech (http://www.helicontech.com)...

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