OK, so maybe I'm a little late to this party. But better late than never! I'll use this blog to capture and record things that I find interesting, post workarounds and tips on things that bother me, and launch into an occasional diatribe or two along the way. Feel free to email me, and if I get time, I'll get back to you!

I'm using version 0.95 of .Text as my blog engine. It looked like the best of the bunch from my fairly brief look into products in that space. It's OpenSource and uses ASP.NET and C#.

The author, Scott Watermasysk has a pretty good blog and some info on installing and using .Text. The main technical issues that I had installing .Text were:

• Follow the Installation Walk Through
• For more guidance for installing, read this.
• You need to grab the right web.config template depending on your setup. For example, if you use a virtual directory for a single blog, use Configs\Single2_Web.config as your base web.config file
• I needed to get my ISP host to add a virtual directory for me
• After going through the install, insert a record into the blog_config table. For example:

  insert into blog_config
  (username, password, email, title, subtitle, skin, author, application, host, timezone, lastupdated, flag)
  values
  ('admin', 'admin', 'your@email.com', 'Title', 'Subtitle', 'simple', 'Your Name', 'VirtualDirectoryName', 'distribucon.com', getdate(), 5)
  

  Note that Flag = 5. This is needed as the Flag field is a bit field that controls how .Text will work. If you only had Flag=1, then you would get a 'User does not exist' error message if you tried to login from another source