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Follow-up to ".Text is not dead"
Dennis van der Stelt reviewed Community Server Beta 3. He also links to screenshots of the web setup procedure .
Scott says ".Text Still Lives"
Finally, Scott answered to my previous series of posts, via mail as well as on his blog. I'm happy that Scott seems to understand my point. Sometimes I get stuck for the right words, and after getting first feedback to my posts, I noticed that it you...
Where's .Text going to?
I was told that DonXMl has mailed Scott about my previous post. Well, I think the main point of my posts was: where's .Text going? To be more specific: Will .Text aka CS::Blogs released only together with CS::Forums and CS::Gallery, or will there be a...
Making things clearer
Hell, I've got lots of feedback about my previous post . Some commented in the blog, others send me private mails. Many questions arised. Therefore, I think I have to make my point clearer. First of all, I don't want to publish my own release of .Text...
Bringing .Text v.96 further
Almost one year ago I upgraded my .Text blog to .96 . I blogged about it several times, my last post was about adding the rel="nofollow" attribute to links in comments. Since then I've got several requests how to get the .96 sources and upgrade. One of...
Add rel="nofollow" to .Text comments
Today Google , Yahoo , MSN Search , and other search operators announced their support of the rel="nofollow" attribute for <a href="..." /> tags. Adding this attribute indicates the search crawlers, that the specific links should not contribute...
No comments possible
Currently it's not possible to post comments on my blog. I'm still investigating this issue. I have a copy of all files and the database running at home, but I cannot reproduce this error. Somehow the files are rendered differently on my WebHost4Life...
Stupidity
Remember: if you patch your blogging engine, make sure everything works properly before publishing it! And backup everything! Ok, what I'm talking about here is this: as you may know I'm using .Text as my blog backend. Instead of using the pre-compiled...
Updated to .Text pre .96
Scott has published the pre .96 sources of .Text . It includes lots of exciting new features including the long-awaited search. I'm always a little bit nervous when updating my site, especially when the database has changed. But the new features persuaded...
I'm compressed...
Well, at least my RSS feed is . DonXML mentioned Jeff Julian 's HTTP compression plugin for .Text ., which uses Ben Lowery 's HttpCompressionModule . Well, it's not just a plugin, since you have to change .Text 's sources, but it is worth while: My RSS...
How to add GeoTags to your blog
Someone asked in the .Text forum how to add GeoTags to your blog. Well, since version .95 .Text uses a masterpage, which is declared in DottextWeb/DTP.aspx . In its header section I've added my GeoTags as follows (my changes in bold ): <%@ Page...
Updated to .Text .95
Today I managed to update my site to .Text .95 by following this guide . It turned out all right, however, here's an advice for you: if you're using a custom skin, switch your blog back to a default one. During the next couple of days I will customize...
Another .Text enhancement
I'm using the .Text web administrator for writing my postings. Unfortunately, there's no link provided to get from the administrator section to the public view. Either you have to edit the address line, click on a favourite link, or logout. Neither of...
Emoticons within .Text
Some days back I've started to implement support for emoticons in .Text . It was expected to replace any textual emoticons such as :) into the graphical representation such as . However, today I notived that ScottW is already adding this into .Text. At...
.Text User Administration
.Text is a great product. However, currently there's no comfortable way to administrate the users, but you have to edit and execute a SQL script . I don't know how Scott can manage all these 259 blogs at weblogs @ asp.net . Since I am going to set-up...
Some more issues with .94
I've updated my site to .Text .94 , but unfortunately I have had some issues, though I followed Scott's instructions . Maybe I did something wrong during the setup, but here are my changes to the aggregated version of web.config to get my site working...
.Text and Image quality
I don't know what others think, but IMHO the quality of the preview images generated by .Text isn't as good as it could be. Currently it just resizes the images with the simplest algorithm existing in the .NET framework. Therefore, I've patched the sources...