BlogEngine?

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Has anybody used the BlogEngine platform? I'm pretty sure WordPress kicks it's ass as a CMS but what's it like as a pure blogging platform?

I may decide mess around with it if anybody has anything good to say about it. The fact that it is .NET rather than PHP intriques me.
 


TheCrabb said:
Has anybody used the BlogEngine platform? I'm pretty sure WordPress kicks it's ass as a CMS but what's it like as a pure blogging platform?

I may decide mess around with it if anybody has anything good to say about it. The fact that it is .NET rather than PHP intriques me.
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Unless you're a .NET coder (which if that's the case, I'm very sorry for you), I see no reason to use it
 
TheCrabb said:
Has anybody used the BlogEngine platform? I'm pretty sure WordPress kicks it's ass as a CMS but what's it like as a pure blogging platform?

I may decide mess around with it if anybody has anything good to say about it. The fact that it is .NET rather than PHP intriques me.
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I've used it, it's serviceable as a CMS, pretty good architecture, you can create plugins for it just like WP.

dchuk said:
Unless you're a .NET coder (which if that's the case, I'm very sorry for you), I see no reason to use it
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RoR FTW right? hurr durr

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dchuk said:
I was thinking maybe Wordpress? It might just be me, but I don't like paying for my server software or my database software.

Thanks for trying to call me out though, especially considering I don't use RoR
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How To Write Your First Ruby Web Bot In Watir

Not you?

Fine take the Rails framework out of the equation and platform fanboyism becomes even less relevant. License fees (which are pretty close to nil these days for web apps based off an MS stack) pale in comparison to the switching cost of shifting platforms if you do it for reasons other than wanting to learn a new language or take advantage of specific framework.
 
Where did I mention Rails in that blog post? I find the .NET stack overly verbose and the Windows OS bloated and unsatisfying. Not to mention, switching from something like PHP, which most people here probably started with, to Ruby would be a shit ton easier than switching to .NET

Go look at the startups being mentioned on Hackers News everyday. Other than Stack Overflow, no one uses .NET, simply because it costs more and there are much more friendly languages out there.

Don't get me wrong, if you worked somewhere where enterprise coding was necessary and that's your strength, go for it and use .NET. I just find it a path not worth pursuing if you have the choice to go any direction you want and there are languages like Python and Ruby out there that are just as powerful, easier to learn/read, and well supported.
 
dchuk said:
Where did I mention Rails in that blog post?
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You didn't, which I acknowledged in regards to my original RoR comment and why I followed up by saying that taking a framework that does most of the heavy lifting of building web apps out of the equation makes arguing over languages mostly academic.
 
justo_tx said:
You didn't, which I acknowledged in regards to my original RoR comment and why I followed up by saying that taking a framework that does most of the heavy lifting of building web apps out of the equation makes arguing over languages mostly academic.
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I think we're friends again now lol
 
dchuk said:
I think we're friends again now lol
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Huzzah! :D

I had initially started to write out various counter points to your statements but any smugness I would have initially felt would have quickly been overshadowed by the annoyance with realizing how much time I was about to waste getting into a pointless (for all parties involved) flame war.
 
justo_tx said:
Huzzah! :D

I had initially started to write out various counter points to your statements but any smugness I would have initially felt would have quickly been overshadowed by the annoyance with realizing how much time I was about to waste getting into a pointless (for all parties involved) flame war.
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Haha, maybe one day when we're both bored we can fight over which language reigns supreme. Til then, we'll just continue to play devil's advocate for other people's questions
 
villiam said:
A WordPress blog can also be customized and configured so that it appears and behaves just like a regular Web site made up of individual pages linked to one another in various relationships. The WordPress blogging platform (or engine), that powers the blog can add this Web site-like functionality. The WordPress blog engine is very good for configuring a blog to act like a common Web site... only with lots more flexibility, options, features, and power!
A blog can be published by just one person, which is probably the way most blogs make their way to the Internet, or by a team of people who create the content and information appearing on the blog. A business might find the team-style approach to blogging useful.


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Fuck, I wish there was a general public late night banhammer available.

To uplinked, yes, you and matt share the same obsession with python :)
 
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