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One more wordpress gadget: snap.com previews

jcoburn — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:57:46 +0000

I stumbled on this the other day looking over a web forum and thought it was a pretty neat ‘gadget’. I don’t know how useful it is but I’m all for cool. Using snap.com‘s Snap Preview feature and the wordpress plug-in snap preview anywhere. You’ll see a little icon: If you mouse over the link

I speak 11 different languages! well my blog does not me..

jcoburn — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:14:54 +0000

Do you know how to write blog articles in Japanese? I do! Do you know how to write blog articles in Chinese? I do! How about Arabic? Can you write in Arabic? I can! Okay so maybe I don’t really know how to write in all these different language. In fact, if you’ve read my

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

jcoburn — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:16:56 +0000

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

Posting To WordPress From Windows Live Editor

jcoburn — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:43:12 +0000

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

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

jcoburn — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:48:57 +0000

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/.

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

jcoburn — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:49:23 +0000

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

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

jcoburn — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:57:12 +0000

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) I can rewrite this url and auto-magically redirect the urls.