Site News for 9/16/07 through 9/22/07

September 22nd, 2007

New Series - VB.NET Interview Questions

I started a new series this weekend with VB.NET Interview Questions. I’ll be putting up an article in this category each weekend for a while. Each one will have 10 to 20 VB.NET and general software development questions for you to study and answer. I’ll have questions of all types, including open ended thinking questions. I may even include a logical brain teaser type question from time to time as well. Feel free to answer them in the comments if you like and/or send me question suggestions.

Most Popular Posts

Here are the 10 most popular posts of the week:

The VB.NET Salary Gap
Of Coders, Professional Programmers, Martial Arts and Ginger Cats
3 More Useful VB.NET String Functions
3 Handy VB.NET String Functions You Can Use
Comparing String to Integer Conversion Methods in VB.NET
Introduction To VB.NET Delegates
Introduction to Constructors and Destructors in VB.NET
How To Do Credit Card Validation in VB.NET
10 Ways To Insure Project Failure
Marine Corps Leadership Secrets (series)

BlogRush + DealDotCom = Useless

After seeing a lot of hype about these two new things I decided to try them out. Now I’ve decided, after a week, that they’re useless, at least for me.

BlogRush is supposed to be a traffic building widget to bring targeted traffic to your blog based on the number of impressions the widget gets on your site and sites signed up under you. However, I found it showing links to “Made for Adsense” or other Internet marketing sites about 80-90% of the time. Black hatters are heavily gaming it right now since they’ve left many exploitations open. Plus, in the long run when you look at the numbers, only very high traffic “A-List” blogs will see any traffic from this widget. I’m staying away from it unless things change.

DealDotCom promised to offer a deal of the day with one good product available for a day at a good price. All I’ve seen offered so far are crappy eBooks and lousy software downloads. I’m pulling the ad for it today and finding something else.

Coming Up Next Week

I’m not sure what I’ll be posting next week. I still have some XML and ADO.NET articles outlined but not completed as well as some general software development articles. I am open to requests, so if there is a topic that you would like for me to cover, let me know in a comment or email.

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