Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 31, 2008
Earlier today, the BlogEngine.NET team published the latest version of BlogEngine.NET, version 1.4.5. It is a minor release compared to our previous releases, but an important one.
BlogEngine.NET 1.4 came out only a month ago, but we have a few fixes we wanted to get out to the world as soon as we could to make BlogEngine life better for everyone. We have a few bugs that were hindering new people getting started as well as medium trust issues at c...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 20, 2008
An interesting thread is going around asking how you got started in Software Development. It seems fun and since Mads tagged me, I thought I’d fess up as well.
How old were you when you started programming?
I guess I started programming when I was about 12 or 13 on my Commodore 64. It was nothing too wild. My big project was something I did for the science fair at school. I had played around with Apple graphics stuff prior to my Co...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 08, 2008
After a few requests, I decided to go back and do another data provider for BlogEngine.NET. This time around I’m using SQLite. SQLite is a file based format very similar to VistaDB Express and it has no restrictions . It is another fine option for blog data and very easy to work with.
Once again, this is a complete provider setup. It will store all your blog
posts, pages, profiles, users, roles, and settings. It could be part...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 05, 2008
If you are a BlogEngine user who prefers databases, you will see a bunch of new stuff when you download the latest version, 1.4.
For the un-initiated, BlogEngine.NET makes use of the provider model to handle its blog data storage. By default, BlogEngine uses XML for data storage and the provider implementation is simply called the XMLBlogProvider. Since version 1.0 however, BlogEngine.NET has allowed for SQL Server to be used as a backend as well...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Jul 04, 2008
If you are reading this blog regularly, you are now likely tired of the database themes going on this week. First, it was SQL Server and BlogEngine. Then VistaDB Express and BlogEngine.NET complete with download. Today, I’m moving on to MySql.
Let me start this post by admitting right up front that I have almost zero experience with it. I didn’t even get it installed until last week and that was just to make sure the BlogEng...
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