Welcome Cyborg All who enter are considered non sentient until proven otherwise...

Just the Rants & Raves of a Geek, who wants to join the Blogging crowd, I hope the site morphs into something you like! This blog is based on the dasBlog ASP.NET engine. I hope to add value to those who would use this software. This blog is part of my web presence, most people have a web site with many features, I have many websites that are somewhat related and or linked. Some are sort of hobby like this blog; others are business or pure vanity. I will be focusing on dasBlog the blog engine that could for my ramblings. For more about dasBlog see www.dasblog.info
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(I don't usually repost from www.Dasblog.info or www.Dasblog.us, but this is one cool and important post!
Thanks to Eric Appel.

How-To Setup DasBlog for Development Using Visual Studio 2005

1. Get the latest dasblog source.  See information here

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DasblogMovedFromCVSToSVN.aspx


2. Setup your virtual directory for newtelligence.Dasblog.Web and set it to use ASP.NET 2.0

3. Open “Dasblog All.sln” in notepad and modify the url for the newtelligence.Dasblog.Web project to point to your virtual directory.

4. Download and install the Visual Studio 2005 Update to Support Web Application Projects.

5. Download and install the latest version of Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects.  You can read about it here http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/08/445742.aspx and here http://webproject.scottgu.com/.

6. Open Visual Studio 2005 and go to File->Open Project/Solution

7. In the dialog, browse to your “Dasblog All” solution file and open it.

8. The Visual Studio Conversion Wizard will pop up.

9. After hitting next you will have the option to have the wizard create a backup of your project.


10. Finish the wizard.  The wizard should complete successfully without any errors.

11. Go to your web.config file and add cookieless=”UseCookies” to the <forms> element.  Read here for more information
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NewFormsAuthenticationSignOutBehaviorInASPNET20.aspx


12. In the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 click the Show All Files icon.  In the newtelligence.Dasblog.Web project right-click on the StringTables folder and select Include in Project.  Do the same for the site.config file in the SiteConfig directory.  You also may want to include other folders such as bin, content, and logs.

13. Modify the site.config and site.config.deploy to point to your virtual directory

14. Modify siteSecurity.config to setup your admin account.

15. Set directory permissions as you would for any other dasblog setup.

16. Rebuild Solution.

17. Enjoy

#  Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:04:52 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [2]

New Dasblog Theme "Nautica022 Liquid" is available for download here: nautica022

Here is a sample site using the theme with no mods:

www.auburnhighschool.us 
(Pretty much what you see is what you get!)

My family blog site using the theme with mods:

www.tomwatts.com

Originial Web Site Design by: www.studio7designs.com
CSS Coding by: mejobloggs 
The Original CSS Template is at: OpenWebDesign

Yes the DasBlog Conversion is by:Tom Watts, (Also documented at www.dasblog.us)

CSS | dasBlog
#  Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:03:11 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [2]

OK folks I have decided to refocus this site as a tech only and 99% Dasblog site.

 

There will be no more family postings here, I have created a new family blog site at TomWatts.com to support family blogging.

 

The TomWatts.Com blog  site is also based on the Dasblog engine and the theme is a conversion of the CSS web template “Nautica02.2 Liquid”  from Open Web Design (OWD). I think it came out very well!!!

 

I did duplicate some of the old family posts from Robosapient.com for a foundation for the family blog.

 

I promise you will find more of the lessons learned from my efforts at dasblog.us posted here with maybe some what better background, and easier to find references. I love the forum for the support it offers, but it is not the platform to pontificate about a particular issue raised there, or resolved there!.

 

I will also try to read the dasblog tea leaves from my hanging around the dasblog developement team and report what I think is going on from the "user" perspective.

 

See ya later.

Tom

#  Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:52:56 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]

Ok just a few rambles here,

#1. I continue to test Newz Crawler, so far it is one of my favorite RSS writer / remote blogger engines! ( I wish it had a built in spell checker, at least a browser based one, but so far I have not found one! This post will be another test of Newz Crawler...

#2. I review a lot of dasblog sites in my admin support duties (self appointed) over at dasblog.us , there are some very interesting blogs out there! I am partial to technical blogs, but I have found one that is artist centric ran by a techie that has caught my fancy. That blog would be @ http://idleminutes.com

#3. Scott has an interesting post over at his blog, "Is OPen Source a Crap Idea?" http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsOpenSourceACrapIdea.aspx I hope that last leading question doesn't mean he is considering moving away from dasblog and on too newer greener pastures. If that's where he's headed, (I would understand if he did), I just hope he's looking to pass the baton.

/End Musing v0.12345

 

 

#  Friday, March 24, 2006 10:38:07 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]

While this is not one of my standard charity picks, I could not pass up Scott's request!

My father-in-law has diabetes, (not as bad as Scott's situation)! We all have someone dear that needs our help!

See Scott's blog for a very thought provoking monolog about this issue!

While you are there, help out and send The American Diabetes Association some $$$.

I can vouch for Scott's integrity, I even sent my contribution through him via Paypal!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TeamHanselmanAndDiabetesWalk2006.aspx

#  Monday, March 20, 2006 9:11:43 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]

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