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Just the Rants & Raves of a Geek, I will be focusing on dasBlog the blog engine that could for my ramblings. For more about dasBlog see www.dasblog.info
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  1. Turned on comment moderation support

 

  1. Much better multi-user/blogger support including a Top Posters macro and total comments

 

  1. TagCloud  support

 

  1. Speedup in Macro execution

 

  1. Support for If-Not-Modified to speed up execution, improve RSS bandwidth and CPU cycles

 

  1. Direct Feedburner Support with 301 redirection for RSS and Atom feeds.

 

  1. Direct support for Feedburner and Feedflare

 

  1. Delete comments directly from your mail reader

 

  1. New themes out of the box, 23 at last count (including mobile)

 

  1. New XML-RPC support for newMediaObject

 

  1. Added support for RSD (http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd) so that blog software can automatically configure itself w/o users entering all the metaweblog nonsense

 

  1. Pluggable Rich Text Editor, choose from FreeTextBox or FCKEditor or write your own adapter

 

  1. Support for CoComment

 

  1. Organized source, build, and packing for clarity

 

  1. New Feed Icons

 

  1. Automatic disabling of Comments after a certain number of days. Also manual “close comments” support

 

  1. ContentLookAhead show future dated posts
  1. Added entry CPU usage optimizatons

 

  1. Better strings and support for Portuegue, Turkish and Vietnamese

 

  1. Statistics update, search engine is are not considered a user for click through.

 

  1. Statistics update, User domain is now logged if configured for DNS reverse lookups.

 

  1. Fix for faithfully displaying comment formats, included blank lines in RSS feeds.

 

  1. Statistics update, no longer tracks the admin account as user activity.

 

  1. Better Post retrieval using the calendar

 

  1. No e-mail address in RSS feeds, displays the e-mail user name instead

 

  1. Update for additional capability for storing encrypted passwords on the server

 

  1. Statistics date handover from one type of view to another, i.e. for example from crossposts to events logs
  1. Cosmetic fixes for the delete confirmation and ActivityBox dialogs.

 

  1. Updated confirmation messages for post, comment and trackback deletion.

 

  1. Update of configuration edit page to allow user control of the attribute “DaysCommentsAllowed” in the blog without direct edit of the Site.Config file.
  1. Support for mobile phones and mobile devices if you read the web.config and update it with new browsercaps data, i.e support for displaying your blog on mobile machines like a “BlackBerry”.

 

  1. Added support for select HTML code in Comments, configurable on the edit page.

 

  1. Support for GoogleSitemaps https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html Your autogenerated sitemap is at http://<yoursite>/googleSitemap.ashx

 

  1. Autosave for editing posting posts, (AJAX code)
  1. Improved ReferralBlackList
  1. Bug fix for when caching, take language into consideration.
  1. Added support for alternate SMTP Ports

 

  1. Resolved validation error in category tag and the issue with the xml:lang attributes

 

  1. Updated version information for version 1.0.0 of XML-RPC.NET

 

  1. Macro (Previous Entry, Next Entry, Recent Entries) links for displaying blog posts

 

  1. Macro to return the text only of the permalink <%PermalinkRaw%>

 

  1. Adding caching to Blogroll.aspx

 

  1. Update for XML-RPC.NET to support blogging from Word 2007

 

  1. Better Titles for Comments in RSS

 

  1. Adding titles to category feeds in RSS

 

  1. Added ContentLookaheadDays configuration feature, allows you to display future dated posts on the front page and in your feed - useful for sharing scheduled events.
#  Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:45:31 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [2]

Well I've got to just rip off a quick post, I have been so busy supporting the DasBlog community that I just about don't blog anymore <sad>.

Anyway I have fairly recently released a new DasBlog theme which I submitted to be included in the next DasBlog release and it failed the FireFox test. Boy was I embarrassed. I had called myself checking it out but I will admit not very closely at least in FireFox.

At any rate I spent untold hours trying to track down the problem, and along come  Justice Gray one of the better DasBlog developer contributors and volunteered to help me out.

He found 99% of the problems in 10 minutes. Apprantley he has and uses all those fancy FireFox development tools. YEAH!!!!!

I got Scott Hanselman to check the theme in this afternoon and by all appearances, the level of activity at Sourceforge we should see DasBlog 1.9 any day now!

Soon I will be hip deep in trying to support the role out and the user community.

Take Care

#  Monday, August 14, 2006 8:56:28 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [1]

(I don't usually repost from www.Dasblog.info or www.Dasblog.us, but this is one cool and important post!
Thanks to Eric Appel.

How-To Setup DasBlog for Development Using Visual Studio 2005

1. Get the latest dasblog source.  See information here

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DasblogMovedFromCVSToSVN.aspx


2. Setup your virtual directory for newtelligence.Dasblog.Web and set it to use ASP.NET 2.0

3. Open “Dasblog All.sln” in notepad and modify the url for the newtelligence.Dasblog.Web project to point to your virtual directory.

4. Download and install the Visual Studio 2005 Update to Support Web Application Projects.

5. Download and install the latest version of Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects.  You can read about it here http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/08/445742.aspx and here http://webproject.scottgu.com/.

6. Open Visual Studio 2005 and go to File->Open Project/Solution

7. In the dialog, browse to your “Dasblog All” solution file and open it.

8. The Visual Studio Conversion Wizard will pop up.

9. After hitting next you will have the option to have the wizard create a backup of your project.


10. Finish the wizard.  The wizard should complete successfully without any errors.

11. Go to your web.config file and add cookieless=”UseCookies” to the <forms> element.  Read here for more information
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NewFormsAuthenticationSignOutBehaviorInASPNET20.aspx


12. In the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 click the Show All Files icon.  In the newtelligence.Dasblog.Web project right-click on the StringTables folder and select Include in Project.  Do the same for the site.config file in the SiteConfig directory.  You also may want to include other folders such as bin, content, and logs.

13. Modify the site.config and site.config.deploy to point to your virtual directory

14. Modify siteSecurity.config to setup your admin account.

15. Set directory permissions as you would for any other dasblog setup.

16. Rebuild Solution.

17. Enjoy

#  Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:04:52 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [2]

New Dasblog Theme "Nautica022 Liquid" is available for download here: nautica022

Here is a sample site using the theme with no mods:

www.auburnhighschool.us 
(Pretty much what you see is what you get!)

My family blog site using the theme with mods:

www.tomwatts.com

Originial Web Site Design by: www.studio7designs.com
CSS Coding by: mejobloggs 
The Original CSS Template is at: OpenWebDesign

Yes the DasBlog Conversion is by:Tom Watts, (Also documented at www.dasblog.us)

CSS | dasBlog
#  Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:03:11 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [2]

OK folks I have decided to refocus this site as a tech only and 99% Dasblog site.

 

There will be no more family postings here, I have created a new family blog site at TomWatts.com to support family blogging.

 

The TomWatts.Com blog  site is also based on the Dasblog engine and the theme is a conversion of the CSS web template “Nautica02.2 Liquid”  from Open Web Design (OWD). I think it came out very well!!!

 

I did duplicate some of the old family posts from Robosapient.com for a foundation for the family blog.

 

I promise you will find more of the lessons learned from my efforts at dasblog.us posted here with maybe some what better background, and easier to find references. I love the forum for the support it offers, but it is not the platform to pontificate about a particular issue raised there, or resolved there!.

 

I will also try to read the dasblog tea leaves from my hanging around the dasblog developement team and report what I think is going on from the "user" perspective.

 

See ya later.

Tom

#  Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:52:56 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [0]

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