Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 24, 2007
Today, we (the BlogEngine.NET team) finally made our first official release of BlogEngine.NET. The first release has a whole boatload of features including:
A nice variety of cool widgets
A very sweet commenting system
Great syndication support (RSS, Atom, and Feedburner)
Support for Metaweblog API
Trackbacks / Pingbacks
A nice blog search
Referrer stats
Easy theme creation.
There is a bunch of other good stuff&nbs...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 21, 2007
A few weeks back, I put together an initial Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) blog provider for BlogEngine.NET. It basically allows me to keep all my posts, comments, and stuff in a MSSQL database instead of the standard XML files that BlogEngine.NET uses as a default.
Why would I want to do this? Well, I not really sure.
It has been a very popular request on the BlogEngine site and I thought that someone from the team should do it and ...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 15, 2007
It has been a little while since I shared my current podcast list, so I thought I'd write a quick update.
Must Listen Group:
HanselMinutes - Still the best. There have been a few shows that have been subpar, but for the most part it gets listened to within a day or two of when I get it.
Often Listen Group:
.NET Rocks - This has recently moved up my listening list. While I figured when they went to the twice a week sc...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 08, 2007
I heard from a few BlogEngine.NET users out there who are starting to take advantage of the power of the Metaweblog API for editing their blog, but I wanted to write something up to show everyone how easy it is to get started with it. The newest releases of BlogEngine.NET now include RSD (Really Simple Discovery) which allows programs to automatically detect where the metaweblog APIs can be found. This just makes the process of getting started even easier. I've ...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on May 02, 2007
Well, it is the week of one of the big conferences of the year and I'm conferencing! However, while the developer world I'm most interested in is at Mix 07, I'm at a different conference in Orlando.
While I'd guess the average person would be thrilled to be in Orlando for the week, I'm not average. As a matter of fact, I was doing a little BlogEngine.NET work this evening instead of more typical conference activities and I began thi...
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