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After running my blog over WordPress for few days, I can say that it has been successfully migrated from dasBlog to WordPress. This action come after considering that dasBlog is too slow to add new blogging features as WordPress is doing. I have been using dasBlog for 2 years and was happy with it, but [...]

Another new version of dasBlog is out, version 2.2, Released on October 5th 2008. A bit late to write about it but I just checked it. I Last updated my dasBlog engine to version 2.0 and now its time to update it further.

Completed my next dasBlog macro (LastFm Recent Tracks) and just uploaded a new page dedicated to dasBlog macro. Here are the list of dasblog macros that I have developed so far – List of Last.Fm Recent Tracks This macro will show a list of recent tracks that was listened by you and scrobbled by Last.fm. This [...]

SPAM. Every one hate it and Why not? No one wish to waste his/her time in searching through all messages for a few legitimate messages. I have been receiving lot of SPAM comments before I find an effective way to stop it. (God knows why they were trying to sell Viagra and what not on [...]

I have just finished modifications in my first dasBlog macro. This macro will add a shout-box to the dasBlog (see it on the right side of this blog). I have tested it successfully with Firefox and IE 5.5+. This macro is written for new version of dasBlog (version 2.0 – supports .Net framework 2.0). If you want [...]

I’ve finished my first dasblog macro that was created by me. It’s an Ajax enabled Shout-box. Still it is under testing and enhancement. Let me tell you it took me two full weekends to get this done. It was quite a good work behind this. But I am happy that I am seeing it running and [...]

I have created my first dasblog theme. I am using the same at the time of writing this post. Theme: Geeks This theme contains single style-sheet. You can download it here. Apart, I am creating some macros for dasBlog. Few of them are listed below. LastFm Recent Tracks List – This macro will display the last n tracks [...]

Finally, much awaited dasBlog v2.0 is released.  I have been waiting this for a long time. The new version can now be hosted on ASP.Net 2.0 with Medium Trust. (download dasblog v2.0) In the past, dasBlog can be hosted on Asp.Net 2.0 but only with Full Trust. This limitation of dasBlog create hosting issues as [...]

Ben Scheirman is hosting a dasBlog Theme Contest(http://www.flux88.com/dasBlogThemeContest.aspx). Theme should be original and should be created/developed using valid XHTML and CSS. Winner of contest will get A $100 (US) Amazon Gift Card ! I wanted to update the theme of this blog with a better one. I believe this contest would bring up some original creative [...]

Here is a step by step walkthrough to setup dasBlog on Godaddy. But before let me tell you that dasBlog is a ASP.Net weblog application. It runs on .Net1.1 framework and maintains all its data and settings in XML files stored in a folder on the server. So there is no need of any database tool. [...]