I was reading Steve’s blog with my browser earlier today when I noticed his odd permalink url’s. Instead of a url like “http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=9abbd5ea-3a10-44d8-8872-877033b7349c”, his look like “http://hyperthink.net/blog/PermaLink,guid,fc99ce5e-b748-44f0-853d-0a261632b885.aspx”. Turns out it’s a standard feature of dasBlog! Just check “Enable URL rewriting” in the config page and you’re set. Now my permalink url’s look like Steve’s.

Since Google doesn’t index pages based on query string, this feature should make my site more easily crawled and googled.

Update: This feature breaks sub category specific feeds, like “Blogging | dasBlog“, so I’m turning it back off until someone can fix the bug.

Michael Platt, Field Architect in the UK, has started a blog. I know Mike and so I’m looking forward to reading his thoughts on the topics he lists in his first post. Subscribed.

Usually when we talk about Java / .NET interop, we’re talking about services, messages, SOAP, web services, etc. But here’s a cool article by Simon on interoping Java SWING with Windows Forms. Not particulatrly tight interop in this case (it looks like the two forms are in seperate processes), but it gets the job done.

I haven’t had time to blog last weeks blogger dinner in Seattle. I had a great time. Scoble and I drove over with Deepak from the MSN TV group. I spent quite a while talking to Steve about syndicating reference data, which builds on his recent SOA posts (more on that later). The coolest new thing this time was meeting Eric Promislow, a senior developer with ActiveState. Eric is responsible for Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT (and apparently the Baconizer). One of the Visual XSLT developers was also there, but I missed his name (sorry). The three of us had a very interesting discussion on dynamic languages (something I know little about) and language design (something I know a moderate amount about). I know Ward is a perl guy, so maybe I should give Visual Perl a whirl.

I also got to rant about explain my view of SOA to Scoble on the way home. Lucky him.

I got a couple of emails yesterday at my work address that my blog was down. Turns out there’s this big winter storm battering the east coast. My blog is hosted on the east coast and they lost power for a while. No power == no blog. But if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already figured out that the power is back on and my blog is back up.