This is the end result after setting up SubText and importing my old blog (now moved to here). I had created a blogML exporter for cs11 and ran into some initial problems because the version of BlogML I had used was a smidge older (v0.9) and therefore had a different schema. Kinda makes me wish there were a way to clear out all the content and start over like subv2 allows me to. So why didn't I go with subv2? (Sorry, Darren) The admin interface and WebParts' silly requirement of IE. I basically live in FireFox and although it's been quite some time since I've...

Awesome. I had a feeling I was going to see something like this sooner or later.

So, mainly because of my comment problems with dottext 0.95, I decided to go ahead and take the plunge. Here's how I got CS installed in less than an hour: Used the web installer. This was pretty useful as I'm very prone to error with just the sql scripts ;) . Just set  bool INSTALLER_ENABLED = true; in the default.aspx of the /installer folder and got the base community up and running. Thanks Dan for your walk thru that outlined basically the same thing. Ran Kevin Harder's DotText-CS-Converter....

It seems that cross-posting has become a cool feature since other, more respected developers have released new versions of their prospective blogging engines. This is a cross-post. You can view this post here and there. I've been doing it for a while - ever since I got my grubby little hands on someone's blog engine code and was able to play with the source code / webservice combinations that http://weblogs.asp.net exposes. I'm doing it. I know of one other person who's doing it as well. Anyways, it required a minimal amount of code to achieve - although I'm guessing there is...

Jeff Julian  has put up a couple of skins at http://www.geekswithblogs.com/TextSkins .

Jeff Julian pinged me this morning and asked if he could use the version of Lighty that I hacked up after Julien Cheyssial (that's weird :)released his 'original orange' version, now up on http://weblogs.asp.net. So it looks like the GeeksWithBlogs will be enjoying a little different taste of a nifty skin.

Go to the Admin section of your blog, and in the “Custom CSS Selectors” textbox add: main { margin-left:200px; padding:0px 20px 0px 0px; width: 580px; } It still has a bit of gap-osis, but at least your main content will end up where it does for IE. I haven't tried this out on Opera yet, but I've implemented it here and there. HAND

Thanks, Scott.  

This is just a little test ping. -= Currently Jammin: Chop Suey - System Of A Down - (03:17) :=-

I added a scroller over here - just some custom javascript. I wanted to get it working - it looks great on IE, I can't say the exact same for mozilla or opera, tho. I'm working on it. I'm also working on giving it a cleaner UI w/ images instead of text - this is just the 'prototype' to see if I can get this scroller working.

Thanks to Donny Mac for pointing me to a new skin for here. Also thanks to Julien Cheyssial for creating the initial one. I changed the colors from orange to blue - I dig blue these days. Also, I've added Jason Alexander's new nGallery to my site over here. Looks like I won't have to write anything myself for a minute!  I know that both of my readers get at me from there, so if you've got a minute please check out my new skin over here. Thanks!

I think I'm going to play with .Text a little bit to allow cross-posting from here to there using w.Bloggar and the MetaBlog API. Perhaps there are some hidden jewels in dasBlog that I could borrow the idea from...just thinking out loud.

here September, 2003(16) there September, 2003(14) and the internal one, September, 2003(34) hehe, you can't see how big of a dope I am on the internal one

perhaps I should take a little more time to fix the emoticons

I've recently added emoticonsto my .Text blog. If you could see the code, it might look familiar. Heh, that was pretty easy. I did make a change or two to the source of .Text and also added a key to the web.config's appsettings node. The magic happens in a method called StripFTB (for free textbox, the editor used for this app) All I did was add a call to the new Transform class, added the appropriate text file, and we're in business. If you haven't checked it out yet, .Text is a real good app - it's been real easy to make changes...

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I just added geoUrl to my blog. I don't know why I didn't thing to do this before! I just have it pointing to my personal blog that has the correct tags, so when you click on the link it queries the database based on the url here not there. Nice. There's also this site which has a world map on it and shows up where you are if you make a post.

I couldn't figure out why the remote posting thing wasn't working like I wanted it to. Well, the examples that I looked at last nite failed to outline the need to generate a proxy to use a webservice with the soap protocol. I had to dig up some old code and inevitably smak myself on the head. But here goes... Update: I think I got it to work.

Oh boy. Another “Object Reference” exception. I tried to create a proxy to this here webservice and insert an entry from a simple command line program. No dice. Thing is, tomorrow I'm going to try it from asp.net and it's gonna work. eh, I hope :)

I intend to use this blog engine more and more, but I've run into a snag that has held me back a bit - I don't know what the ParentID is supposed to be used for, and I don't want to go forward until I do. I'm working on cross-posting right now so that I can use this blog full-time. I'm pretty sure I have 0 subscribers on /phoenix, but I'll make sure to include the proper redirects if I get an aggregator for the user-agent. Should be fun!