Archives for January 2009

I started VSTricks.com as a community new years resolution last week. To get started, I wanted something that was easy and fast to setup on my own servers, and I decided to check out all the hype around GraffitiCMS.

After a week of using the software, I’m extremely happy with it, and I’ve decided to transform the VSTricks.com project into a blog upgrade for ScottCate.com

Both URL’s still point to the same place, and the FeedBurner feeds still bring the same content. In fact a nice benefit of FeedBurner is that the original content feed can change, and the consumer doesn’t have to know about it (unless you read it in a post like this). FeedBurner is cool like that.

You may have been following my original blog feed at http://Weblogs.ASP.net/ScottCate and I will maintain that blog for technical posts. On the left of this site, you’ll see three FeedBurner feeds.

I think it’s the best way to split content to what you may be interested in.

The /VSTricks Feed will only contain Visual Studio Tips and Tricks.

The /ScottCate Feed will have all content. Including the VSTricks, goofy family stories, technical, non-technical, whatever I’m thinking (like this post) content.

The /ScottCate ASP.NET Feed will have only content that is related to ASP.NET, Silverlight, or other interesting content concerning Microsoft, and my community (user group) related activities to Microsoft.

Minor [Very Minor] Cross Posting

Occasionally the ScottCate and ASP.NET feeds will be cross posted, but not frequently. Usually this happens when I’m planning an event ( like the annual Scott Guthrie event in PHX ) and I’ll post to both the .Net and ScottCate feeds.

VSTricks is Never Cross Posted

The VSTricks is exclusive tricks. The only exception to this was the first introduction post.

If you create a custom field in GraffitiCMS – can can use chalk to check if the field is turned on or not with the following chalk code snippet

   1:  #if($post.Custom("fieldNameCheckBox") == "on")

   2:  <div style="padding-top:10px;">

   3:     Write something here when checkbox is clicked

   4:  </div>

   5:  #end