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November 2004 - Posts

Get a free licensed review copy
Michael Hyatt (via Scoble ) is absolutely right. Software companies should make it very easy for people to talk about their products. That's why I gave every ASP Insider a free copy of the Dozing Dogs CMS, and offered a heavy discount to every fellow Read More...
Nasty emails
Of course, our customers are always happy and never send us nasty emails, but if they did , this is an excellent way to respond to them. Thanks Phil for that link. BTW, v2.0.2 is coming this week and has some nice changes. You'll soon be able to sign Read More...
Counting ad impressions
Scott Guthrie's Clever Impression Tracking Technique blog discusses how Yahoo! tracks ads to bill their customers. I agree, this is quite clever and certainly something others should think about. Steve, I bet this would make a big difference over at ASP Read More...
Forum requirements?
A few Dozing Dogs visitors have asked when will we have forums? It's always been on my todo list, but with potential customers asking it's moving up my list. There are two routes to go here. Buy a forum OEM license with source code (there are a few Read More...
www.DozingDogs.com live
I just uploaded the last file and did some quick testing. Everything seems fine, so time to put the kids to bed.. it's going to be fun tomorrow! Visit www.DozingDogs.com and let me know what you think. Read More...
Just found Kirk!
Dana was kind enough to point out Kirk's blog and the Atlanta Geek Dinner on Monday night - what an excellent way to celebrate Launch Day! Read More...
Day 75
BTW, it's Day 75 today. Do you remember Day 1 ? Those of you that have written and sold a product will understand how much work it takes. It's incredible and quite surprising, even after 20 years as a developer. Tick tock, not long now.. Read More...
Join our public forum
It's not released I know, but feel free to help start up the public email discussion list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DozingDogsCMS If you haven't read our sneak peek here's something you won't know - we're offering toll-free telephone and IM support Read More...
Late Beta has some issues
So today I sent out some late Beta installations to fellow ASP Insiders , but things didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped. Do they ever? But now, after two beers and a nice bit to eat, I'm glad it happened. It helps that it was with friends rather than Read More...
View your compilation source
Quick tip! You've all probably seen your ASPX page throw an untrapped exception at some point, but it's been years since I ever really read the page. Sometimes, you'll be lucky enough to see a couple of links on there too, and it really is fascinating Read More...
Dead Frisbee
So what do you think? Time for a new Frisbee? Cody likes chasing frisbees, or spinning discs or whatever we're supposed to call them without infringing on someone's trademark. So long, dear friend. Read More...
Downgrading Winforms from 1.1 to 1.0
I have a winforms app built in .NET 1.1 that I needed urgently to rebuild in 1.0, so I converted the project with VSConvert and loaded it into VS.NET 2002 to rebuild. However, when I loaded a form I would get lots of these errors: Value cannot be null. Read More...