I was serious when I said I liked this blog software.  I got accepted onto the team!  I am working on the html text editor portion of the project.  I spent some time reviewing the exiting code and how it all works together.  There are several opportunities to improve.  Isn't there always?  I have had a lot of experience with DotNetNuke and I hope to port some of that experience over. 

Initally, I am trying to determine how to make the html editor, now TinyMCE, to be a interchangable with other html editors.  Then existing html editor needs so many improvements, image gallery, file manager, upload, etc.  I know that I don't want to spend much of my time customizing an editor that works for some of us and not all of us.  I like to use RADEditor, and I have used others, because there is little I need to configure. 

Anyone else like to see an interchangable html editor in BlogEngine.Net?  Let me know.

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      <codeSubDirectories>
        <add directoryName="Controls"/>
      </codeSubDirectories>

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</compilation>

Here's the deal.  I have been looking for a blog engine that I could finally make my own.  I have explored many of the blogs out there and found that all of them lacked something.  I needed to have a variety of features.  I needed tagging, categories, MetablogAPI, additional pages, tracking, mulitple users, themes, and the ability to add additional modules if necessary.  I finally found BlogEngine.Net on CodePlex.  There are many reasons for the choice, one is that it meets all of my needs.  From a developers point of view it has a temendous potential.

I have been wanting to use DotNetNuke for the longest time since I host it and advocate it.  However, I could not use third party tools to blog.  Many blog applications do not allow you create additional pages, eg. dasBlog, but BlogEngine.Net does. 

I am going to be doing software tutorials that deal with CSLA.Net and the implementation of them.  The additional pages will allow for a psudeo article type functionality.  I may even find time to contribute to it.

I have been wanting to give back to the open source community that has given me many of the tools that I need to succeed in bussiness.  I cannot give to them all but I can give to some.

I look forward to publishing more now that I finally found a blog home. 

I am trying out the CS2007 for a while.  I have been wanting a "one" site solution for my publishing and family stuff.  So far it is hard to find any themes that people offer for download.  I will keep looking.  Let me know if you find any.

If you ever get stuck burning an ISO image to DVD here is the trick.

"I found however that the dvdburn.exe utility that is included with the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools did the trick.

I installed the resource kit tools under Vista, and then just had to open a cmd prompt and type:

 dvdburn d: {imagefilename} /erase

where {imagefilename} was the fully qualified path to the iso image I wanted to burn."

Courtesy of ....

One Man Shouting - How To Burn an ISO DVD Image under Windows Vista (5308)