Upgrade Successful

I have completed the upgrade, and it appears to be successful. And, although the dasBlog homepage is in a sad state of confusion, the dasBlog wiki appears to be back up for the mean time:

DasBlog is an ASP.NET weblogging application. It runs on Microsoft .Net 1.1 and is developed in C#. DasBlog, an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine, adds lots of additional features like Trackback, Pingback, Mail notifications, full Blogger/MovableType API support, Comment API support, fully customizable Radio-style templates, Mail-To-Weblog/POP3 with attachment and embedded picture support, web-based DHTML editing, web-based OPML editor, web-based configuration editing, and other goodies to the BlogX codebase. And it's free without restrictions.

[ DasBlog.HomePage ]

My guess is that newtelligence just doesn't have the time to keep up with this, but Omar Shahine does. What I don't get is why newtelligence doesn't have the time to redirect dasblog.net to the wiki site.

Since I've hacked the code, I have to spend a good deal of time merging the changes in, and this usually means that I have a good grasp of all the changes. There were large sections, however, that I didn't review since I knew I had no code in those parts. I believe that a large part of this version is tightening of code. Some anti-comment spam features have been added. Pingback and trackbacks have been touched, and there are comments that lead me to believe that they now work. Comments can now be shut off on an entry by entry basis. Draft entries can be saved, which is welcome by me, sometimes I want to save to make sure nothing gets lost, but I know that I'm not quite ready to go live with an entry. The login has been reworked, it's just a link to a login page, with just a note that it was done for "many reasons". I did have to hack that work, the "Sign in" link wasn't inside a div like the login box was before, and it wasn't lining up correctly. Admin functions have been tightened up, and now referrals are intelligently parsed, splitting out search engines, and just displaying keywords, and all referring stats can be accessed, not just todays.

All in all I'm pleased, if you like to hack .net code, and you are looking for blogging software for a home page, I would recommend dasBlog. (Though I do run .Text on geekprime.com, I'm frustrated with the delay on Community Server :: Blog and the migration tools for .Text .95)