Well, I've finished upgrading our blog to use the newest version 1.5 of BlogEngine.net. So far so good, I managed to copy over all the content, the little custom widget I made, our template, plus the hacks Sly put in to the global.asax to use our language classes to switch the interface between english and french.
I might not have upgraded for a while but we started getting blog comment spam when we had been getting none before. It seems there has been an auto-poster tool developed to work against BlogEngine.net. There is a quick fix 4 lines of code added to CommentView.ascx.cs. For more information check out this blog post over here
While on the subject of BE.net, if you're a c# coder, even if you don't ever intend on running a blog, you should download the source for the BE.net project and check it out, it is very well written.
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I'm writing this blog post from a Mac! Not that it's my first Apple computer, just not for a while now. Not since somebody broke into our old office and stole my iMac (and Sly's iBook). They didn't touch any of the Dell PC's, funny. Anyway, we are doing some iPhone development, and I got voted in to learn Objective-C. More on that later.
I was using Windows Live Writer to post to our blog; on the Mac it seems to be a battle between Mars Edit or Ecto for blog software. For me, Ecto seems the clear winner, simply because they have a plugin that supports BE.net features directly.
Funny, for years and years, the last computer I ever wanted to have was a Mac, but all that changed when Apple released OSX which was built on top of a Unix framework, which made it officially geek cool. I actually had the privilege of playing with a NeXT computer way back in the day when I was at the University of Toronto, so I had an appreciation for what was underlying the OS. Even the iPhone development kit still uses objects like NSString, inherited from NeXT, the NS meaning NeXT Step. Anyway, as you can see the Terminal app holds a place of honor in my dock right beside the finder icon.
