Extra, extra...get your dasBlog 1.9 here!
Saturday, September 23 2006
I pulled the trigger yesterday and upgraded dirtyDogStink to dasBlog version 1.9.6264 which was just released to the public on Thursday. There are a few updates that really excited me...
- FeedBurner support! When I first started using dasBlog (version 1.7) I had to manually change some code to get this support. Scott took the initiative [something I should have done] and implemented this support for everyone.
- TagCloud support for categories and such. I haven't played around with this yet, but plan too.
- Gravatars [the latest, greatest thing in multi-site avatars] are now supported. Mine is still pending approval though. :-\
- Works with Windows Live Writer out of the box!
- CoComment support.
And many, many more features/updates that you can read about in Scott Hanselman's post!
Although Scott is the primary developer for dasBlog, there was a lot of support from others like Omar Shahine, Tom Watts, Tomas Restrepo, Jason Follas, Rene Lebherz, Steven Rockarts, George V. Reilly, Alexander Groß, John Forsythe, Paul Van Brenck, Josh Flanagan and Jacob Proffitt (my apologies to anyone who I might have missed in this list). I am a lurker on the developer mail list and have seen first hand the amount of effort these guys have put in to dasBlog [yes, I know that I should be contributing :-S]!
The upgrade was pretty seamless for me...I just merged my site.config with the new one, updated the web.config for my custom pages (About, Reading List, etc.) and then copied everything over to my hosting provider (leaving the content and logs directories alone). Easy as pie. ;-)
If you're running dasBlog then run on over and grab the latest build here! Thanks to Scott and all of the others for their continued development and support!
Update: There is something screwy going on with the way it's interpreting my IMG tag above [no image and showing some of the html markup]. I'm going to leave it that way for right now so that I can show the devs.
Update2: Well, it looks fine in Firefox and now going back to IE7 it looks ok also. Perhaps it's a caching issue in IE7 or dasBlog...I'm not sure.
Update3: Alexander and Tom knew what the problem was. The default content filter for "dasBlog" that converts it to the URL was filtering the badge image's name (dasBlog-Simple-640x480-Blue.gif) to create a hyperlink, but that also screwed up the html for the IMG tag. Once I deleted the dasBlog content filter everything worked fine. Thanks guys!
~tod
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