Getting started with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is pretty easy. Especially if you use some of the available tools to hit the ground running. Obviously, one of the first things you are going to want to do is upload some files to your buckets. The C# Library and Code for Amazon S3 on Codeplex makes this a very painless and straightforward process. The library download also comes with both a Windows Form and Console Application sample so getting up to speed quickly is easy. Once you have more than a few files on your S3 instance you are going to need a convenient way to browse them. Once again, there are already several tools available to make this easy. If you are a Firefox user you may be interested in the S3Fox Organizer Firefox Add-on which is a Firefox Add-on to allow administration of your S3 instance. If you are not a Firefox user or prefer a standalone application manage your S3 instance then I would recommend the CloudBerry S3 Explorer. Using the above tools moving your CDN needs to Amazon Simple Storage Service can be pretty painless.

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The other day I noticed that an RSS feed that is aggregated/published with FeedBurner was not showing new posts that we had added to the blog. Well first I noticed they were not showing up in a client that was consuming them but I digress. After disabling FeedBurner integration on the blog the posts were in the original RSS so the issue had to be on FeedBurner’s side. After digging around a bit in our control panels FeedBulletin it became clear that the max feed size limitation was the issue. The issue occurred largely because of two elements. Firstly, we had recently added a lot of image heavy posts to this blog. Each of these images was displayed inline at the original size in an attempt to make them more readable. Unfortunately, this also had the unintended effect of adding a lot of size to our feed. The second contributing factor was that we were showing the last 25 posts in our feed. Displaying so many posts also made the total size of our feed much larger that we had anticipated. The fix was a very easy one, simply turn down the number of items you are showing in total on your feed and use a good syntax highlighting plugin for Windows Live Writer when blogging code.

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After upgrading CruiseControl.NET earlier this month, I thought about how it might be beneficial to remove our dependency here on nAnt. Don’t get me w...

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Recently I decided to buy a new workstation to use at home, one that I would build myself. When deciding what I was going to purchase I wrote down a list of needs typically like I do requirements for a project I am proposing.

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A recent forum post on the DotNetNuke site had me thinking about the available DotNetNuke HTML Providers. Many people use DotNetNuke for their web site framework because, like me, they don't want to re-invent the wheel. Thousands of hours have been spent on the framework's development, not to mention the thousands of hours of development time spent on providers, skin objects, modules, etc. I have no idea exactly how many hours I have spent developing the forums module but I would say its multiple thousands of hours over a few years.

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