Posted by Al Nyveldt on Dec 31, 2007
The beginning if a new year is a common time to look back over the past 12 months to evaluate what you did, where you went, and where you are going. Without boring you to death, I thought I'd share a few things I learned and a few things I hope to do better in the coming year. Learned 1. If you aren't growing, move I had become stagnant in my previous job and had known for a while it was holding me back professionally, but it is hard to leave a secure job. H...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Dec 23, 2007
As we all know, installing BlogEngine.NET from scratch is a piece of cake. Upgrading, however, can cause people a bit of concern and it is easy to overlook something. Here is a guide for your journey to BlogEngine.NET 1.3 from 1.2. 1. Back it up This is the standard first step to doing most anything. While I don't always do this step myself, I should and you'd be wise to as well. At a minimum, backup your App_Data folder and any custom themes or exten...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Dec 22, 2007
It doesn't seem it was that long ago the BlogEngine.NET team was wrapping up release 1.2, but that was back on the last day of September and here we are near the end of December and we're talking about 1.3 already. As usual, the team has put in a great effort on this release. While the feature list seems a little shorter than it has been, there has been a ton of work under the hood to make BlogEngine.NET even better. Mads has written up a great post detailin...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Dec 08, 2007
It's been a while since I've posted any theme updates so today is the day. In looking through the blog stats, it was surprising to find how popular this simple theme has been. It might just be because it is the source code for my lengthy theme creation webcast, but it also might be because people like it. Anyway, I've made a few changes to the theme this time around. First, Jack wrote and share a bug fix to make the header work properly in IE. I...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Dec 07, 2007
Over the past week, I've spent some time on the BlogEngine.NET APIs. Specifically, the Metaweblog API and some similar API calls. What this means to the average person is simply that the next version of BlogEngine.NET will have some new features to take advantage of in Windows Live Writer (WLW) and possibly other software. (BlogEngine.NET 1.3 is due out later this month.) The thing I've been asked the most about is the ability to add new categories fr...
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