Paul Johnson's Technology Musings : MSDN

New Silverlight 2 App Visualizes Social Bookmarking on MSDN and TechNet

pajohn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Updates have been posted to the MSDN and TechNet Social Bookmarking tickers. See John Martin's blog post for more information about the updates.

Social Bookmarking Buzz

pajohn — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:36:00 GMT

Some great information, feedback, and reviews of the new Social Bookmarking application for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression have been coming through. See the following posts below about the new apps!

John Martin - http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/09/08/now-live-social-bookmarking-v-1-0-for-microsoft-msdn-technet-and-expression-sites.aspx

Chris Slemp - http://blogs.msdn.com/cslemp/archive/2008/09/09/launched-social-bookmarking-v1-on-msdn-and-technet-video.aspx

Somasegar - http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/09/11/social-bookmarking-platform-released.aspx

Dan Rigsby - http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/10/msdn-social-bookmarks/

Dzone - http://www.dzone.com/links/msdn_social_bookmarks.html

Dotnetkicks - http://www.dotnetkicks.com/community/MSDN_Social_Bookmarks

Digg - http://digg.com/microsoft/MSDN_and_TechNet_Social_Bookmarking_Launch_Video

Yahoo Buzz - http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:787ce19b08403d28fd98d661ae62c0cd:f479fb24bc251bbe4cb88301743fc5d9

MSDN, TechNet, and Expression Social Bookmarking v1.0 Released!

pajohn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:20:00 GMT

The new release of Social Bookmarking for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression is Live! Check out the new release with the links below and read about the new features.

TechNet Social Bookmarking

MSDN Social Bookmarking

Expression Social Bookmarking

Along with this release of social bookmarking, updates were also released to MSDN/TechNet Search and Forums. Some great new stuff to check out here and more on the way!

If you've been along since the preview release, here are some new features I think are worth checking out. To start with, there's now the ability to search for other users in the system. From this search, you can find that user's bookmarks, forum threads, and other community content, along with RSS Feeds. Speaking of RSS, we've added RSS Feeds for all users' bookmarks, which can be filtered by time range and tag. There are also new tools, including one to import browser bookmarks and other export formats such as del.icio.us.

Oh yeah, one more thing.. you can now tag something with "hyper-v"..

MSDN and TechNet Social Bookmarking Release v1.0 (coming soon!)

pajohn — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:22:00 GMT

As many of you know, our Social Bookmarking application for MSDN, Expression, and TechNet has been out there for preview since late May. Meanwhile, we've been working hard on a full release, with some great new features and improvements. You can read all about the upcoming release here on John Martin's blog.

Be sure to check back here in the coming days for news about the new release!

Add MSDN/TechNet "Bookmarklet" to Any Web Page

pajohn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:45:00 GMT

John Martin posted some snippets allowing you to add a "Bookmark on MSDN" link to any page. See below.

http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/06/25/add-msdn-technet-bookmarklet-to-any-web-page.aspx

JavaScript Error Resolved : Object doesn't support this property or method : document.all.tags

pajohn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Our team finally tracked down a troublesome JavaScript error in Social Bookmarking today. This was an odd bug, which will probably trip some other people up in the future.

The error below...

...was thrown on referencing the following JS object: document.all.tags

We found the problem to be an HTML div element on the page that had it's ID="tags". For some reason, this element ID caused the document.all.tags collection to be null. Good news is, the problem was easy to fix. We simply gave the problem Div a different ID, and the error is gone. Many thanks to our test team for tracking this one down.

For people using the Social Bookmarking app right now and experiencing this problem, know that a solution is on the way. It is in Test right now, and hopefully in Production soon. For future developers who try to ID an element "tags", hope this helps! :)

Going to the Party

pajohn — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:24:00 GMT

Well, we're over half-way through Tech Ed 2008, and tonight is the big attendee party at Universal Studios. I'm looking forward to tonight, as the party sounds like a blast. Our group was down at Universal City Walk last night, and found some good music, food, and dancing. So, I think tonight will be a good one too.

My days at Tech Ed have been quite rewarding so far. The MSDN Zone has gotten a ton of traffic, so I've gotten to meet a lot of new people. Most everybody seems quite impressed with the work we've done for the Social Platform on MSDN. I've gotten lots of comments about Social Bookmarking, with lots of "cool" and "great" and "nice job". It's a ton of fun showing off something I've worked so hard on.

Outside of the booth shifts, I haven't gotten to see very many sessions unfortunately. I did see STO's Tim Shakirian's presentation today on building the MSDN feed service with WCF. It was a good session that was full of new information to me. He spoke at a lunch session in a room similar to the one I'll be speaking in tomorrow, so that also gave me a chance to scout the environment.

Well, I need some dinner before this party, so I'm heading out. Below are a couple pictures of our MSDN Zone with people this time. The beanbags have been a real hit, as you can see.