Barry just posted a great tip for recalculating your Subtext blog's statistics if they get out of whack. As he says in the post, under normal usage the stats should keep themselves updated and accurate... but there are situations that can cause them to get messed up. For example, we found a bug with an old database trigger that could cause the stats for your Comments and Ping/Trackbacks to get zeroed out. I'll be sure to fix the bug for the 2.0 release, but until then you might want to run Barry's script every now and then to clean things up....

I was just browsing the Subtext's Ohloh Metrics Report (previously mentioned here), playing around with some of the cool Contributors Features when I saw something new... a little box that said "0 Stacks, Stack It!" WTF is that? was my first thought... but before looking into it I clicked "Stack It!" and suddenly Subtext had 1 Stack. My next step was to figure out what I had just done. A quick trip to the Ohloh home page and I found my answer: New Feature: Stack It! We've introduced a new community feature called "Stack It!" which allows you to browse...

I just finished pushing an updated version of my blog's skin (I call it CityNight) out to my production server - so here it is for all to see! Pretty flippin' sweet, yeah? Normally I wouldn't throw together such a long string of random thoughts and attempt to pass it off as a blog post for something so mundane as updating my skin... but, I'm bored. Well that and I added a couple of new controls that other Subtext Skinners may find useful. Additions and Tweaks Added - SubtextSearch Control Probably the most obvious and exciting addition is the Search...

Tonight on the way back from dinner (Ok - pizza and beer at Byrne's Pub) Carli was asking what I did today so I started to tell her, in all too much detail, about how I helped a buddy install a new Subtext blog, built a new Virtual Machine for some development work, read some blogs... yadda-yadda. Then she brought to my attention that my blog "has way to much geeky stuff". To be honest I didn't even know that she looked at this site, but she said that she usually just reads the headlines, looks at the pictures, and then...

Despite the horror stories I'd read/heard regarding the upgrade to Visual Studio 2005 SP1, last night I decided to just bite the bullet and go for it. Had I gone delirious from too many hours of scanning the blogosphere in search of the ultimate How-To guide for upgrading? Was I being naive... or perhaps suffering from delusions of grandeur? Who knows. But once I decided that I was going to do the upgrade, I knew there was no turning back. How I did it As I said, I spent several hours scouring the web for all of the tips, tricks, and gottcha's...

Today I was merging the Subtext 1.9 branch back into the trunk in our SVN repository and I came across an interesting "Gottcha" to keep in your back pocket - Microsoft has changed the Time Zone settings with the fix for KB928388. The Back Story One of the great things that Subtext has going for it (from a developer's perspective) is our great suite of Unit tests. At the time of this writing we were up around 39% code coverage. So, being the contentious developer that I am, after I merged the branch into trunk and cleaned up any...

Extra, Extra... read all about it! The latest version of Subtext just hit the streets! OK, so it took me a LOT longer than I promised, but I finally found a few spare cycles and was able to tease out the remaining show stopper bugs for Subtext 1.9.3. Most of those bugs had to do with the implementation of BlogML 2.0 and how we handle attachments when writing/reading a BlogML file. But fear not, I was able to work it all out. :) Now, on to the release notes: New Features BlogML 2.0 Support Subtext now has fully integrated support...

I just finished pushing the latest bits for the next version of Subtext out to my server... so are they working? Phil recommended (and I agreed) that it would be a good idea if I tested the upgrade process for the 1.9.3 version on my live blog - and you know what? It worked like a charm! (knocks on nearest piece of wood) Got a few minutes? If you've got a few spare cycles this morning, please poke around the site a little bit and make sure that everything looks good and the damn thing doesn't blow up! Most...

Recently I stumbled across a Dave Donaldson's post about a new Desktop Theme based on Microsoft's new Zune player. The new theme is for Windows XP and as Dave mentions, it doesn't require any of third-party software to use it... just a quick .msi install and you're ready to roll! Oh-So Pertty! I downloaded, installed, and started using the Zune Style theme and I now I can't get enough of it. This theme as a lot of little extras that I've not seen in some of the other themes. For example, the top of all windows seem to have a nice sharp...

What's better than a friendly family football game over the Thanksgiving Holiday? How about a day of running through the woods, armed with compressed air, thousands of paint-packed gelatin balls, and semi-automatic weapons! This past Thanksgiving my family continued our favorite new tradition - The Poeppelman Family Turkey Shoot with another awesome day of paintball. My family is so into the sport that one of my uncles actually built a series of paintball fields on a large piece of property that he owns - complete with air filling station, chrono, staging area, etc... I've been playing paintball for roughly the past 10...