Blog engine
November 05, 2005 15:32Finally I managed to setup a blog in my web space.
The first problem was: find a ready solution, or craft a simple blog engine by myself? Since, unfortunately, time is finite, I had to go for the first one.
I have already declared my love for .NET (and I will go into details on why I found ASP.NET the coolest solution for web applications, in a future post), so I had to go for an ASP.NET solution. I have found two good blog engines: CommunityServer/.Text/Subtext and dasBlog?
I think that CommunityServer is well over my need, however I like .Text/Subtext. Unfortunately, my hosting provider do not have MsSql...at least, not without paying too much (and even in that case, without direct access to the server! Which means, no stored procedures).
I have found a pretty article by Robert Love on customizing .Text for using it with Borland Interbase. And Phillip J Haack have plans in the future to port Subtext to MySql. So this became one of my (many) pet-projects. I plan to port .Text/Subtext to pure SQL, by writing a neutral DataProvider. It should be feasible, then, use it with MySql or even with a good embedded SQL engine like FireBird or SharpHSQL... For now, I am using the excellent dasBlog, that requires very little effort to deploy and setup!
The first problem was: find a ready solution, or craft a simple blog engine by myself? Since, unfortunately, time is finite, I had to go for the first one.
I have already declared my love for .NET (and I will go into details on why I found ASP.NET the coolest solution for web applications, in a future post), so I had to go for an ASP.NET solution. I have found two good blog engines: CommunityServer/.Text/Subtext and dasBlog?
I think that CommunityServer is well over my need, however I like .Text/Subtext. Unfortunately, my hosting provider do not have MsSql...at least, not without paying too much (and even in that case, without direct access to the server! Which means, no stored procedures).
I have found a pretty article by Robert Love on customizing .Text for using it with Borland Interbase. And Phillip J Haack have plans in the future to port Subtext to MySql. So this became one of my (many) pet-projects. I plan to port .Text/Subtext to pure SQL, by writing a neutral DataProvider. It should be feasible, then, use it with MySql or even with a good embedded SQL engine like FireBird or SharpHSQL... For now, I am using the excellent dasBlog, that requires very little effort to deploy and setup!