Today I opened a workspace on gotdotnet for an open source blog engine I started writing. Everybody is welcome to join in. The space I have on gotdotnet is not so big which means that you'll have to email me for now to get the complete and current source database. A little bit later this week I will have a demo site/blog running on http://www.nblogr.com The characteristics of the blog are : 1. It's The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework :) 2. It's free for everybody to use 3. It's open source so please ......
Vladimir Bychkov explains it nicely.
http://vladimir.bychkov.info/blog/PermaLink,guid,be76b3bf-c524-456c-9c8f-a2584924aa32.aspx
This will take a lot of the pain out of creating themes :)
Nikhil Kothari must be one of my favourite programmers on the whole world. Beside having learned a lot from his blog posts and book. He also develops these great little tools that really help my life as a developer. This time he wrote a utility called Script# which let's you code normal c# code, not everything is supported yet but in Nikhil I trust ;) and translates it to javascript without all the hassle of writing javascript. I like the possibilities of javascript a lot but hate the whole scripting ......
I've come across a french guy's blog who has created an intellisens xsd generator for the The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework framework. He says it's not perfect but I'll take whatever I can get that saves me from writing full words. It's not perfect in the sense that it doesn't show you if something is allowed there or not. The link to the article about the intellisense generator:http://blogs.deve... ......
Ever since i knew about the The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework framework it intrigued me because it offers a lot of the features that made me avoid javascript in the past. The issues that kept me from using javascript are well known to everybody who wrote 7 lines of javascript. Basically it comes down to browser differences in understanding javascript and the differences in the DOM implementation for the two. Then there was Ajax.NET very nice but a lot of extra programming is involved to get minor ajaxy ......
There is a new Atlas RC available for download. This one has got really cool new features. If you haven't looked at atlas before you should look at it now. AJAX just became as simple as 1-2-3. Nikhil Kothari blogs about the new features : A quick tour of Atlas December CTP :http://www.nikhilk.net/Atl... The role and functionality of the Atlas Scriptmanager :http://www.nikhilk.net/Atl... should get your appetite for AJAX going :-D ......