OK this site is now officially a legacy site, or a.k.a. an abandoned website another
among many on the internet.
Maybe somebody still wants to research some legacy dasBlog stuff, so I will keep it
around for a while longer!
Tom
I released the theme to this site a few days ago to be included in the new dasBlog release 2.2. But if you just looking for a theme for your current dasblog then you might want to take a look at this theme now.
Download:
To use, just unzip into your theme directory and change your configuation via the configuration page to use this theme.
The theme gives a link for detail on how to edit your theme to your taste.
Cheers
Tom
We have quite a few new features along with a few new bug fixes.
Custom Macros: The number one issue resolved by this release is the 2.1 version
inability to support legacy custom macros. This has been resolved!
Resolved Theme loading issue: (missing Mobile Theme crashed system for mobile
browsers)
Added check to delete entry method: only admin or author is allowed to delete;
(Window Live Writer (WLW) editing allowed contributor to delete admin posts.
Added OPENID identifier editbox to user edit page: And some cleanup of the
sitesecurity classes; (extensive OPENID for comments support added)
web.config for use in IIS7 Integrated mode: (sample file for IIS7 hosting in
default Integrated mode, document in release.
Fixed live comment preview bug: (The last allowed tag was not working correctly
in the live preview)
Added support for themed 404 pages: (an optional feature if you control IIS)
Fixed IsDaylightSavingTime bug: which always returned false, resulting in comments
always being off by one hour.
OPENID Improvements: Added configuration page options for OPENID comments and
admin, and updated site.config file; (version upgrades should take updated site.config
file change into consideration)
BLOG Stats Macro: Blog Stats macro bug resolved.
Enjoy!
Tom
This site is Dog Fooding dasBlog 2.11.8163.12568 daily build. I created and posted this daily build today at dasBlog.info, link at CodePlex.
This is a release candidate for 2.11 which resolves the third party macro issue and resulting dupe "Util class" issue.
We were slow enough fixing those issues that the team has pretty much now completed the OPENID for comments capability.
I also made the source is VS2005 buildable, we have a tendadancy to drop VS2008 project files in the source which is a pain for anyone who has not upgraded to VS2008.
Hopefully we will have a good test, and release 2.11 ASAP
Cheers
Tom
I updated the dasBlog repository today to resolve the "Utils class defined twice" issue. This release will be tested for the final 2.1.x release soon. We have been having minor problems with SVNBridge, that is why it took so long to update.
I am calling this update 824 here in my blog, that's sort of based on the fact that the old subversion source control incremented by one each time it was updated. And since I started with 823 from SourceForge and this is my first update this would be 824.
The way the TFS source control works is mystery to me, the first update was change control # 11773 and my new update is 13133. I can only assume that the change control set numbers is for the entire repository and not for just dasBlog. That sort of sucks to be plain about it.
This change control set numbering is going to impact our release numbering also. While
we were at SourceForge, before we moved to CodePlex, our release scheme was "version.date.svnrevision#".
Now we will have to consider "version.date.tfsrevision#", which losses some of its
value to me!
-Tom
I released the dasBlog source code for dasBlog at CodePlex today. I took the revision 823 from SourceForge as the starting point.
As soon as I get a chance I will be updating that source to better fit its release at CodePlex, i.e. update the documents etc.
Then as time permits, I plan to release the R823 or later revision as a formal release which resolves the current Custom Macro issue and gives us a new OpenID capability for comment login support.
Later I have a number of new themes to add along with some other new functionality.
Later..
dasBlog 2.1 just got released on its new home at CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/dasblog
You can read about the new release and the move to CodePlex on on dasblog.info.
About version 2.1
This version is predominately a bug fix release with a number of other small features and incremental improvements. Our 2.0 release was based on source revision 730 and 2.1 is based on source revision 813. So you see there has been tons of activity in the background.
Some of the bugs squashed are:
- Search result was displayed multiply times instead of once.
- Theme picklist displayed multiply times instead of once.
- Zip file creation of log files failed in certain cases
- Cross posting between multiply blogs failed in certain cases
- Better support for white space with the CSS PRE command for text formatting of sample source code etc.
Some of the new features are:
- GeoRSS support
- Several new user created macros for paging and theme layout improvements (currently only documented in the source); CommentsCount, IfCommentsRawText, IfItemRawText, IfViewPermalinkUrlRaw, IfParamRawText
- Macros; OnPagePreviousLink/OnPagePreviousLink (Renders links to the previous and next posts on the same page, only in list view)
- Macros; IfModified (prints localized text if entry was modified) - Modified, FormattedModified, FormattedModifiedBare (prints modified date/time if the entry was modified)
Ok, I have stumbled on a new (new for me remote blog client) that I feel is as good or better than Windows Live Writer.
The latest version supports dasBlog (including images without FTP) it does not use RSD (Really Simple Discovery) but since complete support of dasBlog is built in, that does not matter!
(Note: BlogDesk expects you to have the older 1.8 series dasBlog installed which BlogDesk only supports images with FTP, so re-edit your blog profile and tell it to support direct images and it will, older verions of dasBlog may not work as well, but the current dasBlog build 1.9+ is 100% supported)
This post was made with BlogDesk!
Your need to check it out! BlogDesk
Except from site:
"No need to use those annoying HTML Tags in the WYSIWYG editor. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. Even publishing simultaneously to multiple blogs is a matter of a click.
With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts - it's possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc., see Examples). Even Thumbnails can be created - the preview will be shown in the blog and a click on the image will open it in its original size (just like here in the right column). Linking and uploading those images is automatically done by BlogDesk."
DasBlog 1.9.6264.0 now supports CoComment
Track: coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you're following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation.
Share: Publish your conversations to your blog in a click, or send them to your friends via email.
Explore: Check out the top commenters, what articles and posts are generating the most comments, who's commenting on the same conversations as you.
Cross Post from http://dasblog.info
With the current release we provide dasBlog buttons and badges for the first time. The whole set with many other formats including png is available here.
Simple jpg:
Reflection jpg:
Simple gif:
Reflection gif:
Cross Post from http://dasblog.info
OK today, I have started updating http://dasblog.info for the new 1.9 info and I thougt there would be no better time to try out Windows Live Writer.
(Windows Live™ Writer is a free, downloadable beta program from Microsoft that will help you include rich content in your blog posts and know exactly what your blog will look like.)
Well I love Windows Live Writer but today's postings were not as easy as I thougt they would be!
Everybody is raving about Windows Live Writer, and it is great but it does have some pros and cons.
Pros:
Cons: If these are fixed I will be a super WLW fan!!!
Deleting would not be important, but the system throws an error if you manually delete a post at the blog site and then try to repost the same data again from WLW. You can work around this by cycling to another blog account and back and the WLW post id will clear.
Cheers
OK it's official the dasBlog team has released dasBlog 1.9!
See Scott's post for all the details.
P.S. I appreciate the nice words there about your's truly!
Cheers
Tom
Download here: Documentation here: Forum here:
daily builds here: (including ASP.NET 2.0 VS2005 versions), stay with ASP.NET 1.1 unless you have a developer need.
(daily builds with EST local server time here:)