Fun With My Blog Stats

One of the great things about WordPress, and one of the main reasons I switched my blog over from Live Spaces, is the Dashboard.  The statistics that it shows you are really helpful in understanding what you’re writing about that people actually find useful. (Or at least click on.  There’s no beating comments for real…

PDF iFilters – Which Is Right For You?

I’ve written about iFilters a little before.  As defined by Wikipedia, IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the newer Windows Desktop Search to index different various file formats so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be indexed. Surprisingly, for a long time the only…

Importing Blogroll Links into WordPress from an Outlook 2007 OPML Export

If you’d like to import your RSS feeds from Outlook 2007 into your WordPress blogroll, you can use the Tools / Import capability, as outlined in this WordPress support article.  However, when I went to do this, no matter how many times I tried it, it wouldn’t work. I finally exported my existing blogroll from…

Carsten Keutmann’s SharePoint Manager 2007

I’ve followed Carsten Keutmann’s blog on and off over the last few years.  When he writes, he writes great stuff.  (Write more often, Carsten!) I had previously plugged Carsten’s  SharePoint Manager 2007 tool, and he’s released updates to it since I’ve last looked at it.  This is a must-have tool for serious developers.  It lets…