Wow, it’s been two weeks since the last BlogShouts update, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on the site. Not by a long shot! We’ve pushed out a bunch of new fixes and features, including at least one thing that wasn’t even on the list of pending features. To quote Captain Willard, from Apocalypse [...]

It’s been another busy period over here at Dart. We’ve been working hard to take BlogShouts from ULTRA BETA to plain ol’ beta, and I think we’ve just about hit that point. This is exciting, because it means we get to really ramp up our efforts to attract bloggers to the site. We’ve got 220+ [...]

We’ve been rolling out features, fixes and improvements to BlogShouts right and left for the past ten days, so I thought I’d do another update on what’s happening with the site. I love the tech we’re using — it’s really made it a breeze to quickly change the site. Sometimes we roll out two, three, [...]

Welcome to what I hope is a recurring column here on the Dart Blog, where we talk about the features, fixes and enhancements we’ve recently added to BlogShouts, and take a look at what we think is coming up in the next week or so. As mentioned in the last entry, we’ve launched Blog Shouts [...]

As we wrap up the final few bugs fixes and feature additions that we want to have ready before BlogShouts goes live this month, I ran into a minor bit of CSS/JavaScript wackiness that was annoying me. I wanted alternating “Shout Cards” to have different margin widths, but I didn’t want Gabe to have to [...]

I have to admit, even though the MVC concept has been around for a long time, I had never really heard of it before Microsoft chose to adopt it for ASP.Net. This is mainly because I’m not a programmer, and also because I haven’t worked extensively with Ruby on Rails, which from what I understand [...]

Do you remember that scene in the movie Creepshow where the old, rich jackass’s apartment is filling up with cockroaches, and he’s freaking out and screaming, and spraying bug spray everywhere, and it’s crazy? That’s kind of where we’re at right now! We are officially in bug-stomping mode on BlogShouts, which is a pretty awesome [...]

When you spend the better part of fifteen years working on the web, you encounter a lot of technologies. In 1997, it was HTML 3 and PERL 5. Lately it’s been ASP.Net web forms and a lot of JavaScript (and that’s one hell of an improvement). One of the goals Gabe and I have for [...]