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I'm very happy to announce that Sueetie has been upgraded to the brand new BlogEngine.NET release, Version 2.5.  You'll find it at Sueetie.com/blog.   I could provide you with a screenshot, but instead I'll show you my favorite thing--displaying the BlogEngine.NET 2.5 Logo. You'll find a description of the new features in v2.5 here on the official BlogEngine.NET blog.   The biggest impact on Sueetie is Multiple Blogs in a Single Instance, something we in Sueetonian...

One of the new features in the Sueetie v3.2 Addon Pack is Blog Post Thumbnails, where you can display thumbnails of different types on BlogEngine.NET post lists.  The different types of thumbnails supported is author avatar, image based on the post’s category, the first image contained in the post, post attachment, a default image per blog, and finally, a random image from your Media Gallery based on albums you select. On the Sueetie News Blog you see an example of thumbnails based on the post...

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...

I’m happy, happy, happy to announce that Sueetie.com is now running BlogEngine.NET 2.0.  The focus of Version 2.0 was on providing a great Blog Administration experience. It definitely succeeded.  There are a number of other features and improvements in BlogEngine.NET 2.0 which you can find on BlogEngine.NET 2.0 Features and Notes. The BlogEngine.NET 2.0 admin pages are gorgeous.  There’s a new Control Panel Dashboard that lists recent comments, unpublished posts, items in a new recycling...

My Feel the Power post was a lot of fun to write, so I’m reporting in after 24 hours to tell you how things are going. I concluded Feel the Power with “I can now enjoy BlogEngine.NET as God and Ruslan Tur intended.” I’ll show you a couple of screenshots to confirm that I wasn’t lying. Let’s first look at the latest custom filter stats from Akismet and StopForumSpam. If you recall, these were previously at “0” across the board because comments were never reaching that stage of validation. What's...

This is the second post in the Sueetie Going Mobile Series describing how it was possible to create a mobile version of the Sueetie Online Community and its applications. This post focuses on BlogEngine.NET, whose developers led the way with a mobile architecture that existed long before the iPhone came on to the scene and upon which the Sueetie Mobile architecture was based. The original source of this post is located in the Sueetie Wiki Patterns and Origins area. _______________ BlogEngine.NET...

When Al Nyveldt announced the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6 a few days ago I knew that whatever was on my geek calendar would have to wait until I was running the latest version of this most excellent blogging application. The BE.NET 1.6 Release Notes are found at DotNetBlogEngine.NET. Some of the new features include Centralized Comment Management, Comment Spam Filtering with plug-in support, Multiple Widget Zones, several new widgets, a new logging system, unhandled exception handling and more...

If you’ve ever gone to my blog over the years you’ll know that I’m not much of a widget guy. I like a simple sidebar with only the essentials. As Twitter has become a more important element in Digital Daily I decided to finally do the deed and put a Twitter Profile widget on my blog. The Profile widget displays your avatar and last few tweets. Here’s what the Twitter Profile Widget looks like on my blog. You’ve seen it elsewhere 100’s of times, I’m sure. I took five minutes to add the widget. Seriously...

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...

You could say I've spent a lot of quality time working with BlogEngine.NET 1.5 in Visual Studio, and yet I couldn't figure why I couldn't enjoy a good old-fashioned .NET Runtime Error when I screwed something up.  Instead I encountered something like this in my browser. Not the most helpful response.  Stepping through the code I could always locate the trigger point, but it sure would have been nice to see the actual error in English.  I Googled and Binged and searched...

I started working on something else in Sueetie this fine Sunday morning when observing the lack of integrated BlogEngine.NET Avatars bugged me enough to get it out of the way.  YetAnotherForum.NET avatars are integrated into the Sueetie framework, so BlogEngine.NET avatar integration remained to complete the job. Rather than retrieve a commenter avatar from MonsterID, Wavatar or Identicon on Sueetie blogs, the comment photo now displays the member profile avatar.  They are also linked back...

Sueetie Member Following is complete for BlogEngine.NET post authors and commenters. Implementation of member following for, say, YetAnotherForum.NET will be somewhat different than member following for BlogEngine.NET. Still, I like to write up the documentation while the code is still fresh, so here is the newest Sueetie Wiki document, “The Design of Sueetie Member Following.” I’ll update the wiki after I implement following on YAF.NET, ScrewTurn Wiki and Gallery Server Pro. I hope to have the source...