March 2009 Blog Posts
So I have a working LINQ to SQL provider for BlogEngine.Net. Now what? Given a little spare time, how about I see if I can’t use it to support running multiple blogs from the same installation? More importantly, see if I can use it to support running multiple blogs from the same database? Doing just that turns out not to be all that difficult. Scheming The current architecture for BlogEngine.Net’s data already has a bit more cohesion than it technically needs. All the objects have their own individual Ids and those Ids are used to relate...
I’m at Convergence this week in New Orleans. If you’re unfamiliar with the conference (and don’t want to follow the nifty link), all you really need to know is that it’s Microsoft’s convention for their business solutions products. For me, that means Dynamics Great Plains. I bring this up because in the last session I attended yesterday, Louis Maresca mentioned a problem I remembered having with GP Web Services. GP WS has a serious problem when you first instantiate the proxy object: it can take seconds (over 30 on our older systems—I put a timer in just to...
Every now and then I get to doing something just because... well, because I can. These projects usually atrophy before becoming anything usable and serve more as a way to explore and practice than anything else. Usually. My latest tangent actually got to a state where I can let it loose in the wild and it’ll probably actual do what it is supposed to do.
BlogEngine.Net
Let me be perfectly clear up front: I don’t actually use BlogEngine.Net at all. Anywhere. I’m still a Subtext guy when it comes to blogging software. BlogEngine.Net still lacks critical features and that prevents me...