OK We have new Dogfood dasBlog 2.2.8252.15603

This site is Dog Fooding dasBlog 2.11.8163.12568 daily build. I created and posted this daily build today at dasBlog.info, link at CodePlex.

This is a release candidate for 2.11 which resolves the third party macro issue and resulting dupe "Util class" issue.

We were slow enough fixing those issues that the team has pretty much now completed the OPENID for comments capability.

I also made the source is VS2005 buildable, we have a tendadancy to drop VS2008 project files in the source which is a pain for anyone who has not upgraded to VS2008.

Hopefully we will have a good test, and release 2.11 ASAP

Cheers

Tom

I updated the dasBlog repository today to resolve the "Utils class defined twice" issue. This release will be tested for the final 2.1.x release soon. We have been having minor problems with SVNBridge, that is why it took so long to update.

I am calling this update 824 here in my blog, that's sort of based on the fact that the old subversion source control incremented by one each time it was updated. And since I started with 823 from SourceForge and this is my first update this would be 824.

The way the TFS source control works is  mystery to me, the first update was change control # 11773 and my new update is 13133. I can only assume that the change control set numbers is for the entire repository and not for just dasBlog. That sort of sucks to be plain about it.

This change control set numbering is going to impact our release numbering also. While we were at SourceForge, before we moved to CodePlex, our release scheme was "version.date.svnrevision#".
Now we will have to consider "version.date.tfsrevision#", which losses some of its value to me!

-Tom

I released the dasBlog source code for dasBlog at CodePlex today. I took the revision 823 from SourceForge as the starting point.

As soon as I get a chance I will be updating that source to better fit its release at CodePlex, i.e. update the documents etc.

Then as time permits, I plan to release the R823 or later revision as a formal release which resolves the current Custom Macro issue and gives us a new OpenID capability for comment login support.

Later I have a number of new themes to add along with some other new functionality.

Later..

dasBlog 2.1 just got released on its new home at CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/dasblog

You can read about the new release and the move to CodePlex on on dasblog.info.

About version 2.1

This version is predominately a bug fix release with a number of other small features and incremental improvements. Our 2.0 release was based on source revision 730 and 2.1 is based on source revision 813. So you see there has been tons of activity in the background.

Some of the bugs squashed are:

• Search result was displayed multiply times instead of once.
• Theme picklist displayed multiply times instead of once.
• Zip file creation of log files failed in certain cases
• Cross posting between multiply blogs failed in certain cases
• Better support for white space with the CSS PRE command for text formatting of sample source code etc.

Some of the new features are:

• GeoRSS support
• Several new user created macros for paging and theme layout improvements (currently only documented in the source);  CommentsCount, IfCommentsRawText, IfItemRawText, IfViewPermalinkUrlRaw, IfParamRawText
• Macros; OnPagePreviousLink/OnPagePreviousLink (Renders links to the previous and next posts on the same page, only in list view)
• Macros;  IfModified (prints localized text if entry was modified) - Modified, FormattedModified, FormattedModifiedBare (prints modified date/time if the entry was modified)