As I mentioned in one of my previous blog posts, I have been using Windows Live Writer to add/update my blog posts. I recently ran across a new plugin called CodeHTMLer for Live Writer. Its a great way for posting formatted source code. You can read more at Wes' Puzzling's blog.

Download the plug-in. 

Current supported languages include : C#, C++, Java, JScript, VB.Net, XML, and Powershell

Sample Source CodeHTMLer

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Main.
/// </summary>
static void Main(string[] args)
{
  // string variable
  string myString = "myString";

  /* integer 
     variable */
  int myInt = 2;
}

Yesterday I decided to sign up for a feedburner account in hopes that I could track the number of subscribers for my blog. As a result my feed URL has changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/KevinCastleDotNet.

A new version of dasBlog was released a few weeks ago. I must admit, that I downloaded and installed within minutes of seeing Scott Hanselman's blog post. When I initally started this blog I had a really hard time deciding which platform to use...should I use the more populare WordPress, should I try and get Community Server up and going, it was kind of hard to decide at that time. It wasn't until this release that I fully stood behind my inital decision to use dasBlog.

My favorite features include:

• Support for Google Sitemaps - The google webmaster tools and their analytics tools really make maintaining and running a site that much more fun. I think it was especially important to support google sitemaps since the content on our blogs are constantly changing. Note: The location to reference for your google sitemap can be found at [YourBlogDomain]/googlesitemap.ashx
• Better support for Windows Live Writer - Im assuming that the file uploading issues were fixed. Although I already configured LiveWriter to FTP all of my files up the server when needed.

I would also like to mention that the upgrad from 1.8 to 1.9 was a piece of cake. I just merged the web.config files and pushed the new files to the server.

More Information:

Scott Hanselman on dasBlog 1.9

Scott Hanselman on Google Sitemaps

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Analytics

dasBlog 1.9 upgrade information