- Posted by mateid on January 6, 2008
First post for 2008. I've been slacking off lately mainly due to some unpleasant health issues. Somehow it seems I scored an ulcer. I've done some cleanup to the site and added blogs I actually read to my blog roll. There are may more out there but these I read on a daily basis. I'll be posting more soon.
- Posted by mateid on October 1, 2007
Just upgraded to Blogengine 1.2; looks like I killed my categories. I should have backed up my data folder. Doh! Other than that the upgrade went as smoothly as you could wish for. Good stuff from the folks at Blogengine .Net!
- Posted by mateid on October 1, 2007
I will be upgrading my blog tonight, so if things looks broken for a while that's why. Hopefully it will be a painless experience. I'm moving to Blogengine .Net 1.2 and so should you!
- Posted by mateid on September 28, 2007
I promised myself I was going to blog more, post some original material as opposed to the link stuff and announcements I usually do. Unfortunately my backlog of things to do caught up with me and I can barely catch my breath lately. Right now I'm working on getting the content for Calgary Tech Fest 2007 into the site. I guess the cat is out of the bag now, Daniel announced yesterday at the Developer Night in Canada. Feel free to check it out even though the content is not all in there yet. I'm still looking for a nice (and free) DNN skin to use on the site. If anyone knows one please drop me a line.
Which brings me to the brutal installation experience DNN provides. Not the mention it's one of the most bloated applications I've seen; slow too, there's a bizillion things running before even the first byte is served. "ideal for creating Enterprise Web Applications"? I think not! No it's not like me to bash an open source project but seriously since when is "module creation, module packaging, debugging methods, etc" development best practice or cutting edge? And don't get me started on this pearl right here "well-researched user interface allow universal ease-of-operation". Wow, who writes this stuff! For an open source project I'm growing fond of check out DotNetBlogEngine or Castle Project.
Back to the Calgary Tech Fest 2007 - we have some interesting sessions lined up so far. I'm looking forward to find out all I can about the NHibernate Mafia, particularly since I'm lobbying hard to use Castle project's Active Record (this makes your domain persistence aware) for some projects at work. There are a couple of sessions on AJAX and Silverlight as well so it's probably worth attending.