Scott Watermasysk
Simpable is the personal blog of Scott Watermasysk. The blog covers a variety of software and technology topics with a focus on simplicity. Scott has worked on a variety of large scale ASP.Net applications over the years and uses Simpable as his main venue to share what he has learned and discuss those lessons with the community.
Simpable | 14 Nov 2008 12:37
Scott Watermasysk writes "....Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of Live Search services "Silk Road". Silk Road is Live Search's new set of search APIs (version 2.0 beta) and services for developers. With Silk Road, you can build applications without restrictions..."
Read more » Live Search API "Silk Road"
Simpable | 13 Nov 2008 15:42
Scott Watermasysk writes "....I was watching Max Feingold's PDC talk, Designing Your Application to Scale and one particular quote really stuck out to me. "At global scale, getting the truth is really really expensive". What he is referring to by "truth" is knowing exact..."
Read more » Apology-Based Computing
Simpable | 12 Nov 2008 18:49
Scott Watermasysk writes "....I am looking to sell to video cameras to make room for the new Flip Mino HD. If you are interested in either, ping me at scottwater@gmail.com. Flip Mino I love this camera. It is super easy to use, fits into your pocket, and works on PC/Mac with no..."
Read more » Video Cameras For Sale
Simpable | 11 Nov 2008 13:15
Scott Watermasysk writes "....Maybe FeedBurner isn’t dead after all. I received the following email this morning: We’re contacting you to let you know that we’ll be migrating your FeedBurner account [removed] to your Google Account [removed] on 11/13/2008 . Please..."
Read more » FeedBurner – Not Dead Yet?
Simpable | 07 Nov 2008 14:21
Scott Watermasysk writes "....Ahh, so many title choices, all of them would have haunted me in Google for many years. Anyway, I recently realized that four of my recent gadget purchases had one thing in common, they were all white. iPhone – I went with the white model based..."
Read more » The New White
Simpable | 07 Nov 2008 12:50
Scott Watermasysk writes "....Email is an incredibly important aspect of many applications. While most programming languages make it trivially easy to send email, debugging/testing is often a tedious and boring task…until now. Ken Robertson (of the Telligent product team) has..."
Read more » Papercut – Easy Email Testing
Simpable | 07 Nov 2008 02:42
Scott Watermasysk writes "....I have spent way too much time in my life discussing SEO in blogs. For blogs like Engadget, SEO is a big deal. However, for the other 99.99% of people you are way better served creating great content and interacting with the visitors you already..."
Read more » SEO in Blogs is Overrated
Simpable | 06 Nov 2008 18:56
Scott Watermasysk writes "....With all the news about a crappy economy, I found the video below by Jason Fried of 37Signals very interesting. In particular, at the 20:06 marker he quoted Kathy Sierra, When it comes to marketing, you can either outspend or out teach your..."
Read more » Follow the Chefs
Simpable | 06 Nov 2008 13:24
Scott Watermasysk writes ".... I saw some mentions about Yahoo’s Boss a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t have time until recently to try it out for myself. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple:..."
Read more » Yahoo! Search BOSS C# Implementation
Simpable | 05 Nov 2008 21:27
Scott Watermasysk writes "....Photo By: scholewiak Microsoft's new BizSpark project is an effort to spur startups and entrepreneurs to use Microsoft technology when launching new companies. Microsoft is giving away software, services and support to startups earning..."
Read more » BizSpark
