From what we can make out this appears to be a fictitious SEO contest. What's interesting is the digital grafitti it spawned. We're using Kamus.net to try and make sense of it during another brief distraction.

Late last year a web solutions company offered cash prizes to whomever was able to gain the highest position on Google for a specific search term. What surprised me is that the winner had only a handful of links to the winning entry page. Cue hurried attempt at Jerry Springer style closing remarks. It's great that the web opens up possibilities for someone to earn more in a few months via an SEO competion than, say, the typical annual salary according to GDP per capita figures - I thought it might be useful to highlight this figure against that for the country in which I was born - but the problem I suppose is the spam it encourages. Blog post comments are an obvious target, for example.

I'm missing another superlative for Stack Overflow. Whilst trying to decide between BlogEngine.Net and SubText for this blog - using Google as is how every but every decision is made now - the following became apparent:

• BlogEngine code is likely to provide the more interesting read
• SubText is going to be rewritten to use ASP.NET MVC
• One is more stable than the other, supposedly

In other news I attended a London .NET user group talk at Microsoft last Thursday (ASP.NET Webforms versus ASP.NET.MVC) in which I learnt that I fall into the second category of developer: those who want to build apps so that they can charge a client. Eight weeks without a client can do that to you. The argument had the expected key themes:

• Why must we suffer View State?
• Web development should be about being -
  • pragmatic (Webforms)
  • elegant and of highest quality possible via Test Driven Design/Development (MVC)
• ASP.NET MVC currently lacks the cushion (view designer, etc)

Stack Overflow: Who is using BlogEngine.Net for their blog? Does it run well? Will it scale? :P

Mason Lyngby: Switched from SubText to BloggingEngine.NET