This site is the digital home of Eric Appel, a web developer and photographer in Portland, Oregon.
Included in this site are tech related blog posts, my photography, and recent items from my digital life.
I currently work for Intel as the Lead Application Developer on Intel's Corporate Product Catalog.
My primary fluencies are in the Micrsoft stack (ASP.Net, C#, Silverlight, MS SQL Server, etc.), but I keep it fresh with platforms like jQuery/javascript and Expression Engine.
I've developed a number of sites that are live at the moment including ark.intel.com, EricAppel.net, AjaAppel.net, and SmartSetr.
Thank you to those who are willing to share their work with the community.
Site powered by DasBlog. Site also uses jQuery and Robert Penner's javascript easing equations.
Icons by FastIcon and Jvstin used in this site.
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I have noticed by watching my tracker stats that someone who has visited my blog a couple times has been searching for how to create a blog. So I thought I'd throw up a quick post on my blogging setup and the other setups that are available. I personally use the fantastic blogging engine called DasBlog. DasBlog is built using ASP.NET and is very easy for developers to customize. For example it was really easy to create my own custom theme template for my blog. Also it was relatively easy for me to build my Flickr Photos page into DasBlog. DasBlog does require that you have your own web hosting that supports ASP.NET (I use WebHost4Life). DasBlog is currently maintained by Scott Hanselman and Omar Shahine.
For those who don't currently have an ASP.NET webhost or aren't web savvy enough to setup something like DasBlog, there are plenty of great free hosted blogging services out there. For starters there is Microsoft's MSN Spaces. Spaces is a blogging service that not only allows you to create a blog, but also is great for sharing photos, creating custom lists for things like projects, and is also going to have some great features dealing with integrating content from Xbox360. A couple other popular free blogging services are Google's Blogger, and Yahoo's Yahoo! 360
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