Super Bowl Bound

In case you haven't heard, the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. There's been some controversy regarding the media when Joey Porter noted that the media turned its back on the Steelers, but the fans did not. It's very true. When you look at the players going to the Pro Bowl, most of them are not playing right now. Why isn't Ben Roethlisberger in the Pro Bowl? He has maintained one of the highest qb ratings all season. He has only lost 3 games out of 31 games played since falling into his role as the star qb of the Steelers. Does Brady have this record? Manning? Palmer? Greene? None of these players have maintained the poise that Ben has and yet they are regarded as the all-stars of the game, but the media played their names enough that they will go to the Pro Bowl. Roethlisberger better be in the Pro Bowl next year, or I'll be shocked.

Furthermore, Pittsburgh does not have a single team member with off-the-chart stats. That's because Pittsburgh players are unselfish and the offense spreads the work around. In the last few playoff games, Parker and Bettis teamed up to make the normal 100+ rushing games. Randel El, Hines Ward, and Heath Miller have shared the large number of passing yards. This team is dominant because they are a team--no individual is out to become the superstar, instead the they will become Super Bowl champs.

GO STEELERS!!!

Denver to go!

Steelers deserved to win the game. They beat the Colts and they beat the refs bad calls. Ben Rothelisburger was composed, and the defense consistently came up big.

Go Steelers!

SharePoint unfriendly URLs Cx notation

I am working at a client on a SharePoint Portal Server implementation, and the question came up about maintaining friendly URLs in SPS. After a certain number of areas are created, SPS alters the URL to contain a C1,C2,...Cx before the requested area name. This posed a problem because the client wants users to type in:

http://<path>/IT for IT
http://<path>/HR for Human Resources

I found some information on this by Daniel McPherson here:
https://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2005/05/18/419160.aspx

Been working on a custom eCommerce system

Haven’t really had much time to blog lately with the holidays. I’ve been building my own e-commerce tool that’s similar to Commerce Server, but much simpler. My latest site (a Digital Daydream creation) is for a company called Muvmint. Enjoy!