Tagging, lazyness and World of Warcraft
As you might have seen there is a new ‘Tags’ headline in the left sidebar. I intend to remove ‘Categories’ and use tags instead. I’ve only got about 150 posts so I should be done tagging all articles in a week or so.
Tagging feels a little more natural for me than using categories. Categories feels like storing stuff in a cabinet. So when there is a post that doesn’t fit in a drawer I have to remake the cabinet or force the post in to a misshaped drawer.
I don’t think tags will make me write more though 
The infrequent writing is just pure laziness. Playing World of Warcraft doesn’t help much in the short term for my writing either.
I probably should spend my spare time learning programming things, but I think it is important to have some fun too.
I’m MCTS in BizTalk
Last Thursday I took the 70-235 exam from Microsoft and as the post title hints I passed.
I haven’t really looked at BizTalk much since it was in Beta a couple of years ago. I did some workshop like sessions with a couple of our customers managers about it but we didn’t get any real BizTalk cases back then.
During the years I have been working on other things and some colleagues of mine has taken the BizTalk jobs.
I did some hard studying for a week and got a score of 799. Almost all of my reading was in BizTalk Foundations. I did all of the demos in the book as it really covers most of the BizTalk package.
It must be hard to make the exams in such a way that they reflect actual knowledge of the product and not just a lot of remembered trivia. I would not call myself an expert in BizTalk, but I feel comfortable in taking in a job and solving the problems as they come.
New host
This week I moved part of my web sites to Dreamhost. The outage on this blog (and probably my Swedish counterpart) was because I forgot to change the blog url in Wordpress. It took a while for me to notice because of the time it takes for some DNS servers to update.
Otherwise everything worked perfectly. I migrated my Wordpress blogs by exporting/importing all content. Luckily the export files didn’t exceed 7mb so I had no trouble importing them.
I just noticed that I missed the permalink settings so all visitors following old search results will end up with 404’s. My Google pagerank will probably take a dive also. I’ll just have to write some more to get the blog up and running again.
jsiPodFetch 7.44 released today
I just uploaded a new release of jsiPodFetch.
CHANGE LOG
7.44
- Enabled two simultaneous downloads. Might be more in the future.
- Made it possible to stop copying files to the player while syncing.
- Feed URL is now emptied after a click on add.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some feeds to be verified.
- All actions should have a wait cursor now.
- A copy of the settings file will now be made when loaded successfully.
Broken settings in jsiPodFetch, revisited
In my last post I wrote about my corrupted settings file in jsiPodFetch.
In the long term I intend to save the state in a different way from what I am doing now. To minimize the discomfort if/when the current solution fails I started to make a copy of the settings file if it loads successfully on application start. So the worst case scenario of failing settings is now that the last session is lost. Previously there was a big chance of losing all state assembled since the application was installed.
