I hate resumes.  I've had the pleasure (and I use the term loosely) of looking through quite a few of them during my time at SOE.  Resumes are nothing more than marketing pieces.  They're mostly fully of crap and don't really tell you anything all that useful.  The only purpose of the resume is to see if someone wants to give you an interview, based roughly on the overinflated accounts of your past exploits.  Even once you meet someone during an interview, you rarely meet the actual person interviewing.  Rather, you meet that person's "representative".  The whole thing is mostly a craps-shoot and is a lot more about personalities than it is about skill. 

At any rate... I came across a neat idea for a resume and decided to give it a whirrl.  I would most definitely interview the person with this resume!  It's super awesome.

The Resume Of Moi

A minor update that fixes a URL target issue in links automatically generated in comments; found by Rory Primrose.  Thanks, Rory!

Here is the update: KeywordLinkz.cs (13.64 kb)

Dave White found an issue in the last version of KeywordLinkz which he pointed out here

No, that wasn't by design. :)

Get the latest version at the Keyword Linkz repository!

Thanks, Dave!

KeywordLinkz had a collision with ResolveLinks, which is the Extension that comes packaged with BlogEngine.Net.  ResolveLinks automagically turns mentions of URLs in comments into actual clickable hyperlinks.  Unfortunately, it doesn't ignore pre-existing hyperlinks.  Since KeywordLinkz generates hyperlinks, ResolveLinks mangled them.  To make sure that everything happens in the right order and that no links get mangled, I rolled the ResolveLinks functionality into the next version of KeywordLinkz.

 To use KeywordLinkz, I suggest you disable the packaged ResolveLinks extension.  KeywordLinkz will now give you that same functionality.  Get the latest file at the Keyword Linkz repository.

Don't forget to disable your ResolveLinks extension if you want to make full use of this one.

There are a few constants in there.

So, I was talking previously about a spot of trouble I ran in to with the Quicker Links extension for BlogEngine.Net as well as an idea for some additional functionality that Alexander Higgins talked about.  Since I wanted to get my hands dirty with the BlogEngine.Net source anyway, I decided to write an extension to address both items.

Look mah!  Dirty Hands!  :D

I give you Keyword Linkz 1.0, by yours truly.  The intended functionality is as such

1. Any keywords that you specify in the Extension Settings will automagically be turned into the appropriate links (much like Quick Links)
2. If you mention any of the CATEGORY names on your site in a post or comment, it will automagically link to the category's page
3. If you mention any of the TAG names on your site in a post or comment, it will automagically link to the tag's page

It happens in that order of precedence, so if you have a category and a tag with the same title you will get a link to the category page.

Some more points to consider:

• The extension works for posts and comments
• The extension is (hopefully) smart enough to ignore all "<>" tags
• Any pre-existing hyperlinks in your text (i.e. <a href></a>) are (hopefully) ignored
• The extension never actually saves the modified text (i.e. the links) to the data store.  Instead, it generates the hyperlinks on the fly as the content is being served.  That means if you ever update your keyword list, tags, or categories - all links will automagically be updated "retroactively".  If this becomes a performance issue, I may add some options to specify link generation behavior (i.e. only when a post gets saved).  That would, however, mean that all of your cross-reference links generated by the extension may eventually rot.

This is version 1.0.  While I have done my best to test the extension, there are bound to be issues.  If you use this extension, I would love to hear feedback on performance or any defects you encounter.  If you don't use this extension, but have some ideas on how to improve it, please don't hesitate to tell me.  You won't hurt my feelings. :)

Tell all your buddies.  First time's always free. 

Code attached.  To install, just put the .cs file in your App_Code/Extensions/ folder.  Done.

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