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Rss Syndication Reporting is the newest Sueetie Analytics feature coming in Version 3.2.  This is the realization of a long-standing goal to take back control of my BlogEngine.NET feeds from FeedBurner. The longer I work online the more I realize the importance of owning the data my sites create.  There are other reasons I’ve come to think turning a feed over to a Third Party is a bad move, but the bottom line is that I want my feed back.  FeedBurner doesn’t care about it like I do...

New England Code Camp 13 is nearly upon us, slated for Saturday, March 27th.  I'll be giving a presentation titled "Background Tasks: A Nutritious Part of a Complete Web Application." Waltham is a 3-1/2 hour drive from Burlington, so I'll be driving down late Friday afternoon which is my normal routine and staying at the Bedford Doubletree Hotel.   Their advanced booking rate is currently $89, total $99 with tax.  Interestingly I just checked the Waltham Westin is...

The day after Turkey Day, or Fatpants Friday, is a good day to relax and do some light geeking. My Post-Turkey Day geeking included BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Restored my Sueetie development baseline to YAF 1.9.3 Sueetie Control Panel Membership updates BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Two days ago the Iranian Stallion, Keyvan Nayyeri, informed me that my blog comment notifications weren’t working. I can’t relax when I know something’s broken, so it was at the top of the Post-Turkey Day to-do list...

I've been spending quality latenight geek time with YetAnotherForum.NET 1.9.4 beta lately.  I am so excited about the new features coming and the customizations I'm working on.  The two are feeding off one another; so many new features in 1.9.4, both front-end and back are firing me up to highlight YAF.NET and bring more community services into its domain of cool.  It's difficult not to blog about what's coming, but I never blog about something until it's on the...

This post serves as an invite and reference for future Code Camps.  New England Code Camp 12 is nearly upon us, slated for Saturday, October 17th.  I'll be giving a presentation titled "Would you like some Community with that Web Site?" on .NET Open Source networking applications and Sueetie. Waltham is a 3-1/2 hour drive from Burlington, so I'll be driving down late Friday afternoon which is my normal routine.  I'll be staying at a different hotel this time thanks...

Folks have been talking about a Vermont Code Camp for two years now. “Yeah, yeah. Sounds great. Never happen,” I thought. Well today it happened in a very big way, and the amazing thing is that it wasn’t Julie Lerman who was responsible for its success. An Irishman with great pecs named Rob Hale organized our first Vermont Code Camp and in the process established himself as Vermont’s newest Geek Idol. Everything went perfectly at today’s Vermont Code Camp 1, from Rob’s opening welcome gathering at...

When I was initially contemplating how to go about restricting Sueetie blog comments to Registered Users I thought I'd use a smart placeholder control to display or hide the comment form.  While I went another route on blog comments, the Sueetie UserRolePlaceHolder took form as a very useful control, the first of several Sueetie "smart" PlaceHolders we'll no doubt be seeing.  To demonstrate the UserRolePlaceHolder I added a simple welcome greeting to registered users on...

The MSDN Northeast Roadshow with Chris Bowen, Jim O’Neil and Bob Familiar is what’s for dinner. It’s required for any serious .NET developer. Those who skip the MSDN Northeast Roadshow are the symbolic equivalent of the sleek black van passengers to whom Philip Seymour Hoffman points and yells, “Looooo-ser! Move on!” as they drive past the flipped truck in Twister. The MSDN Roadshow is a day-long event for .NET developers. It is required for several reasons. First, you get to see Chris Bowen’s smiling...

Nothing like a substantial upgrade of your website to lift your spirits. This afternoon I put an upgraded version of DBVT.COM online that is now running BlogEngine.NET 1.5 and Gallery Server Pro 2.2.3402. I also wrapped the site in the latest Sueetie framework bits for better integration and a few new features. First to BlogEngine.NET 1.5. It’s such a pleasure upgrading BlogEngine.NET, knowing that with each release you’ll enjoy even better performance than the last. And BlogEngine.NET was always...

Sueetie is a member-centric collection of integrated, yet loosely-coupled social networking applications which together form an online community.  Building that rich member community experience is where I'm currently pouring on the Sueetie development love.  We started down that road with Avatars, which we'll be using for (drum roll…) Friends and Favorites! More accurately, Sueetie will use a Followers and Favorites model, closer to the Twitter approach than to Facebook. There will...

That's a fun title, eh?  Let's see if the keywords improve on it. Keywords: Service SVC is undefined, SVC 404 Not Found, AJAX WCF JQuery, SVC file 404.3, SVC in browser, Windows Server 2008 and WCF, IIS7 No, guess not. I finally began my trip down JQuery Road, thinking it will be a useful tool in conjunction with WCF for some cool Sueetie v.Next functionality.  I spent hours trying to connect JQuery with a WCF .SVC service on my Sueetie development site, so hopefully sharing my...

We're making good progress moving Sueetie from Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 to Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.  When my Awesome Host Provider migrates my virtual server to Windows Server 2008, Sueetie will be ready. Moving Sueetie to Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 was always an important goal because it symbolized that it was time to get to work.  For the last couple of months in Sueetie's short existence we've demonstrated that a solid community platform was possible using Open...