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