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I was just searching on Technorati, and one of the Top Searches was for http://www.alistapart.orgThey are using Ruby on Rails, I am not too sure what that is but it seems to be something based around the language Ruby. Why is Ruby good for developing Websites?What is special about Ruby?I have to admit it, their site looks pretty darn cool. I like the colour scheme, it is quite neutral. I like their articles too!

There is an article over on the Search Engine Journal about MSN bot hammering peoples bandwidth. I noticed this too on my Atom.xml file, it is one of the reasons that my most prominent RSS syndication link is on Feedburner.MSN Bot, was hitting my Atom XML file once every minute or so from what I could tell, and it had used about 100 MB of my transfere limit. Not much really, but this was only 15 days into the month.

I was playing aroung with my server the other day, and on the off chance I noticed that www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag and www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag.html go to the same place. (These are some of my Ajax experiments)Since when did Apache no longer worry about the file extension? it complains about the case of the file all the time.I am not too sure if Apache is re-writing the URL’s because I don’t have root access or anything.

I have just downloaded the Google Desktop Search 2.0 Beta, I quite like it. I would like to be able to force it to index when not Idle, but thats the only complaint so far.I am looking forward to being able to search for things amazingly quickly, I have held off from using others because they took up lots of resources on my pitifully weak machine. This one seems to be pretty good though.

I have been reading a bit recently been reading about OPML. I have the following questions:How can I use it? What can I use it for? What is it good for?People who are talking about OPML Robert Scoble : /0001011/2005/08/21.html#a10930 /0001011/2005/07/25.html#a10752 /0001011/2004/08/14.html#a8077 To Quote Robert: OPML is the glue that COULD bring all these things together. From what I have read, the article I quoted infers that in the future OPML will bring together pod casts, screen casts, photo-sharing and screen casts.

This post is subtitled: It got me thinking about how I use Blogger.comI am not too sure why I put this down as a success. There are too many things that I want to do with my blog that Blogger’s Interface and features does not allow. The “Blogger For Microsoft Word” is not amazingly useful, the Posting WYSIWYG doesn’t work consistently. The tags that are available don’t seem to have been improved for ages.

I read a lot of people are complaining that AJAX applications are breaking the Navigation of the Web Browsers. I am sure most of these people also say that “Web Browser” Backward Forward navigation is wrong anyway. I kinda like the idea that if I am in an AJAX based application I will get out of the application completly by just pressing the back button.Its not AJAX that breaks the navigation.

I have been looking for a way to update my Blogs image. I like what I have, but it is quite generic.I was looking at this site http://penandthink.com/niggle/ and I really like the way it shows the Blog post.I am not too sure if I can really use this as a basis for my site, because I have been posting a lot recently, so it won’t stay too static…… Saying that, it might work.

The way that I write sucks! That is all that I can say, I don’t think I have a very good grasp on the English language (which is pretty poor since I live in England!!). My Vocabulary is limited and my punctuation is abysmal. I am prototyping this post in Microsoft Word so the spelling and vocabulary should be fine (synonym suggestion). I believe this blog has however, has allowed me to improve the way that I write.

This is the sixth installment of my “Success and Failures of my First AJAX application”. If you would like to talk to me about AJAX or anything else email me: paul.kinlan@gmail.comThis entry is titled: “It got me thinking about how I communicate over my blog”. This focuses on several areas from who I am trying to improve my grammar; the things I talk about; the length of the entries and what I include in my Blogs.

I will keep this chapter short. Whilst looking at many Blogs, I have noticed that nearly everyone but the most successful Blogs are either a) too short or b) too long. I feel that too shorter an entry all it really shows is that you are linking to something or don’t have too much to say. The longer Blog posts are mostly to long winded and I get bored halfway through.

I have been thinking for a long time about what I want to include in this Blog. I have several concerns. Firstly the name of the Blog “C#, .Net Framework” I believe limits the scope of the blog. I shouldn’t really be talking about what I am now, technically. I think I might change the name of the blog into something a little more generic, but at the same time it will have a larger target area for audience attraction.

I think that this is the most important part of the blog. There are really two sections to it. The content and the value added features.Currently, I provide some content (whether it is interesting or not is a separate question) and some value added features (a list of topics that a reader might be able to find related information) which include the Technorati tag list and the related searches.Okay, the related searches aren’t back in yet, but they will be.

This post if subtitled: “It helped me publish related topics on Technorati”One of the reasons why I created the Technorati Tag Generator was to help me create the Topical tags at the bottom of the page. Initially I had three sections: a Technorati Tag Section, a Feedster Topical search section and an MSN search section. For each post about 10 minutes was spent creating Tags and search links, and about 10 minutes for each post thinking of Tags and related searches.

This is the 8th installment about my Successes and Failures of my first AJAX application: It got me thinking about Perl again!I have been looking forward to this post, I don’t especially know why. When I was 16, I started a small company (which I left, but is now doing well – oh well), it was called PCBware (Paul, Chris and Ben)ware. Its name is now www.Switchmedia.co.uk (they host my Blog for me).

It seems that if you want to make money blogging, you have to blog about making money blogging. The more you blog about making money the more money you make! Or so it seems.A case in point is made here, http://www.problogger.net/ . Darren Rowse reported that he has made a Six Figure salary a month off Blogging, and what does he do (It is actually more than a blog about making money blogging) he seems to eat, sleep, dream and talk about blogging.

Speaking about Perl in my Previous post, I forgot to mention that I will need to start doing some XML processing, before I start going off and investigating the wrong XML Parsers does anyone know of a good lightweight Perl XML Parser.Some options that I need are: It has to be light weight Potentially support XPath Has to be a reader (itereates accross nodes) I think this means SAX Has to also support DOM.

This is just a quick entry, Technorati have come up with a Cool REST API. http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/BlogPostTagsThe API, lets a developer display all the tags that a particular site has created. It is pretty cool because it lets me see that some of the issues I have been having have been resolved.Check out http://www.kinlan.co.uk/cgi-bin/SiteInfo.pl if you want to see all the tags I have used. It is a really simple API to use, and includes some basic stats about the tag (the number of times they been used).

I have just seen this tagger (http://www.ultraseeker.com/tagbuilder). It is okay, all it does though is take tags that you generate and create some XHTML out of it. It has half of what I want in my next AJAX application, but that half is the easy half :)

I am just over half way through talking about some of the success of my AJAX application. The fourth part is about external API’s. This actually has some relation to an earlier post that I made: Retail Web Service TherapyThe Subtitle for this entry is: It got me thinking about all the other API’s that I want to see.What I mean by this really is that I want to see more feed/blog companies exposing more about the statistics.