As one of Microsoft latest publicity efforts they offered Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and other bloggers a new Ferrari laptop with Windows Vista to keep, in return of his opinion of Windows Vista. They got what they bargained for and a bit more. Check out his latest blog post to get the details.

I must say I admire Joel as one of our best bloggers out there and he really knows how to attract an audience. I’m not sure if I have dared to blog about this in the same way as Joel and I’ll give him credit for that, but why on earth did Microsoft offer him this deal if they knew who he was? I’ve read quite a bit of his work including his Joel on Software book and this is not the first time he’s brutally honest about these things. I remember quite a few references back to the Excel team where he once worked at Microsoft. Very interesting reading.

Anyway my humble opinion is that this happens all the time and I guess it’s up the each and every one of us to decide for our self what to do. I agree with Joel in great extent, but as I said I don’t think I would have blogged about it. But that’s probably why he has a trillion readers and I have 7. But at least I got a brand new hot tub 6 months ago… Still waiting for that Ferrari though… Yeah, in
my dreams!!

When I moved my blog from Blogger to DasBlog I wanted to keep rss.xml and atom.xml, and redirect them to the new DasBlog url’s. I googled a bit but didn’t find much. And the ones I found I wasn’t able to use (maybe because I’m running Vista RC2). Anyway, last night enough was enough and I decided to put this to an end. I started to look at IIS’s config file applicationHost.config (usually found at C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config) and one section got my attention: <httpRedirect enabled=“false” />

The problem was finding schema documentation for
this element. After a while I found this (http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=25&i=946&p=24).
To solve my problem I used this:

<httpRedirect     enabled=“true“

exactDestination=“true”

httpResponseStatus=“Permanent“>

        <add
     wildcard=“/rss.xml“

destination=“/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss“ />

        <add
     wildcard=“/atom.xml“

destination=“/SyndicationService.asmx/GetAtom“ />

</httpRedirect>

So if you have a similar problem I hope this
helps.

Update:
I upgraded to Vista Release and suddenly the redirect didn’t work anymore. I tried and tried and tried and gave up. I tried again and came over this:

That nailed it. Don’t know why I didn’t see this before, but it would be nice though if the error message said something about enabling this feature.

I mentioned earlier that I was playing with DasBlog, but had
some problems getting it running on Windows Vista. Well now I’m live with my
new DasBlog site (v 1.9.6315.0)! I have made some changes to the layout and
added some new graphics, so if you’re reading my rss take a look at my new site
to get the “real” experience. Talking about rss I have now a new rss url (http://blog.torresdal.net/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss).
The old rss and atom feeds are still there, but they only provide a link to the
new rss feed. Hope you like my new site.

During the day I found two new releases. Asp.net Ajax RC is out (http://ajax.asp.net/) and Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is released (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx). I vote for Monday releases, so we can get paid testing them. Since I can’t keep my hands off these two, my weekend is ruined! :) Enjoy!

Update: You might want to have a look at Scott Guthrie’s blog before running the installation. He has some tips you should have a look at. Both for pre Vista and Vista operation systems. You’ll find his post on vs sp1 here and vista here.

There has been a lot of confusion around web2.0. Who’s better to reduce this confusion than Martin Fowler! Check out his latest blog post about this topic. I especially found this interesting:

“A common misconception I run into is that Web 2.0 is all new stuff. Most of the ideas under Web 2.0 are actually quite old and have been used on the web from early on, for instance Amazon’s community or the use of Wikis. The point is that then they were the minority. The Web 2.0 shift is about the principles that were used by a few in the 90′s becoming the majority in the future.”

And just to clarify even further, Web 2.0 is not a product; you cannot buy it in any store! :)