It's been a hectic couple of weeks - I've changed jobs and been plunged into the middle of a bunch of projects, the other coders are either on holiday or on-site with clients so I'm holding the fort, as it were!  Good job I like to be busy!!!

Anyway, because of all of this it's been a while since I posted and I'm just going through my notes to rectify that situation, so keep an eye on the RSS as there will be a few updates over the next 48hrs or so.

Also found time to change the blog skin again this morning - still in search of the perfect look so let me know how this one comes across.  I quite like it, its a modified "StarGazer" skin for BlogEngine.net

Next up is adding my galleries back in - I will be writing the code to display those today, so there will be an announcement when that is available.  Be nice to have those back on here.

I will also be giving a bit of space on here to a friend of mine who does a radio show in Dublin.  He's started podcasting his shows, and they are pretty cool so I'll be setting up a page here to link to those.  Be interested to see the reaction from those - again, announcements and full details as soon as things are ready.

That's everything I think - check back soon!!!

Oh, apologies for the broken Twitter feed on here - I've done some reading and it seems that Twitter only allows for each user to 70 request per hour.  As I've started accessing with my phone as well as on my PC that may be causing an issue so I've reduced the request time to see if that fixes it.

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Well, I finally got round to setting things up - I said it would be a major change and I wasn't joking.

Hello to anyone who hasn't been to my site before in its various incarnations - I think this is the third or maybe fourth version of the site, in all the excitement I seem to have lost count myself...  Welcome back to my small band of forum posters too, presuming they will bother to sign up again (please, PLEASE sign up!)  

Its a bit of a change in that its the first time I've not built everything myself from scratch - I'm using a bit of software called BlogEngine.Net, which is free and also a set of forums from JitBit Software.  I just got fed up of trying to do the whole design bit, I'm most certainly not a UI designer, and that is what has always caused problems for my own site in the past.  I've worked with some superb designers over the past 15 years and I just can't cut it when I try to do anything remotely stylish.  So, I gave in and went with a blogging engine... but I have gone with a fully .Net solution so I can keep my hand in a write some extensions for it.

So anyway, it will give me the chance to add a lot more content to the site than there has been before.  The Galleries will return hopefully this weekend, just have to put something appropriate together.

Any questions either leave a comment or (preferably) post in the forums...

Thanks and see you soon

Dave

 

 

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