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Custom FeedFlare for Syndication

February 25, 2009

In this post, I’m going to share how I created the custom links back to my blog as seen in my syndicated posts on SQLServerPedia.com.
I’m syndicating my all of my SQL Server related posts over at SQLServerPedia.com. Since I sometimes blog about topics other than SQL Server, I didn’t want to syndicate my entire feed. [...]

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Tweetbacks

January 9, 2009

UPDATE: I stopped using tweetbacks because they just weren’t that interesting.
I came across a post on Mashable today talking about Tweetbacks (A Tweetback is like a trackback or pingback from Twitter). The Mashable post linked to a post by Dan Zarrella who has an easy to implement script you can throw on your blog to [...]

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Using WordPress on IIS7

January 3, 2009

I’ve been running WordPress 2.7 for a few weeks now and I have been very happy with it so far. In this post I’ll share my thought process behind running WordPress on IIS7 and the details on how I have it setup.
I setup my first blog back in 2006 running on dasBlog. I was never [...]

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Use Your Google Account as an OpenID Provider for Your Blog

December 30, 2008

I’m running a self-hosted WordPress 2.7 blog on a GoDaddy.com IIS7 hosting plan. Today I was trying to setup my blog as an OpenID provider so I could use it to login to OpenID enabled sites like stackoverflow.
My first attempt was to use the WordPress OpenID plugin. Beside the fact that I couldn’t get it [...]

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Blog on hold

December 12, 2008

I really want to start blogging. The trouble is, I can’t get things setup the way I want them. I had settled on using blogger but I really want to have my domain as http://robboek.com and not http://www.robboek.com. The trouble is, now I can’t have it hosted by google as you can’t add a CNAME [...]

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First Post

October 10, 2008

Welcome to the first post on my second attempt at a blog. The first one failed miserably when I changed servers and was too lazy to fix a permissions issue.
This time, I’ve decided to use Blogger. I’ve been very happy with Google services so far, and when I came across a post by Jeff Blankenburg [...]

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