Monday, July 05, 2004

I have been using dasblog for a few months now. While I have fixed some of the minor issues, there are some issues that are pending.

 

One of the major issues with dasblog is the time settings. Besides the time [of posting a blog/comment] not being displayed correctly, there is yet another issue. We cannot make a blog post post-midnight for a couple of hours. After Pandu and Rosh had some bad experiences with this in the past, we three deliberately avoid making posts between 12.00 – 5.00 am in the nights.

 

A big thing missing in dasblog is an archive view, there is no real way of viewing your past blog entries based on some archive view. I saw somebody’s implementation of archive view in dasblog, not exactly what I would have liked to have but atleast there is an archive. I should check that out. Anybody else has an archive implementation for dasblog?

 

Some of the other minor issues:

 

  1. No delete comment feature
  2. Post a comment and you are brought to the main page [I have fixed this]
  3. No obfuscation of your own email-id [I have fixed this. You can now add the text you wish to replace @ and . with in the e-id in the config file. Neat?]
  4. Time display error
  5. Sometimes, when you edit an old entry, it makes a new entry. I am not able to re-produce this though. Happens once in a while.
  6. Delete category
  7. Rename category

 

This blog entry doesn’t talk about the good things in dasblog [Yeah, you could read it as whatever is not listed here works good in dasblog ;)]

Monday, July 05, 2004 8:27:15 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [5]Trackback
Monday, July 05, 2004 8:43:07 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
One word from me: .Text

:)
Monday, July 05, 2004 12:01:51 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I think you are running a older version. Archive view is already in dasBlog 1.6. See my blog on how it looks. You have to use the macro <%newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths()%> for it. Delete comment feature has been added too. Does the time zone setting in the configuration page not work as expected?

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For renaming categories see: http://www.vasanthdharmaraj.com/PermaLink,guid,41500abb-befc-4d25-be3c-2c07b6df4480.aspx. Do back up your data before you use this. :-)
&lt;/plug&gt;

By the way have you already committed the fixes you have made to the workspace? I too wanted to fix the "Post a comment and you are brought to the main page" problem. Anyway you could log these issues in the bug tracker (http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/bugList.aspx?id=77a29128-4746-4473-b676-e4f1517a1907). I think there are a few guys still working on dasBlog.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:25:10 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
As per my expeience, .Text is very cool up to some extent.
Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:49:20 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Thanks Vasanth. I havent submitted the changes. ..there seems to be some problem with their source control at gotdotnet. However, you will see it working on my blog.

Will see if there is a work around.

Sudhakar, Ernst - any links to Text? [Ofcourse there is google...] ;)
Friday, July 09, 2004 1:55:50 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Here is the URL for .Text http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/dottext and the blog of the person who wrote it http://scottwater.com/blog/. This is the engine that powers http://blogs.msdn.com.
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