BlogEngine has excellent extensibility model, core libraries expose any significant event you can think of to the outside world and you can subscribe to this events from your code and get access to the posts, pages, comments, files etc.
Second part of my Ajax adventure was rather boring; I simply wrote standard ASP.NET application and added couple update panels to ajaxify it.
Yes, I've heard about Ajax before - one would have to be hiding in the hole for the last year or two to avoid the buzz. I've read articles, seen videos and presentations, even used applications that utilize Ajax on a daily basis.
Every time someone tells how powerful today’s computers areand how one should always trade performance for good architecture, testabilityand thousand other great things - I want to hit guy on the head.
As you can read on official site, [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) does support Ajax. The approach it uses - it relays on few simple helper JavaScript routines (can be found in BlogEngine.Core/Web/Scripts/blog.js) and hand-crafter JavaScript functions in the UI code to perform basic callbacks.
For those who use [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) as a technical blog (which is pretty common at this stage) code formatting feature is a must.
Don’t be jealous – I haven’t had real vacation for more than three years now, since my kids were born. These few days in Vegas are well deserved!
Since [BlogEngine](http://dotnetblogengine.net/) finally got its extensions section up and running on the project’s [home page](http://dotnetblogengine.net/page/extensions.aspx), I put my [Mp3 Player](http://rtur.net/blog/page/MP3-Player.aspx) extension up there.
That was busy weekend – Saturday I went to see [ amateur AIBA World Boxing Championship](http://www.worldboxingchicago.org/), and it took almost all day (finals in all categories from 48kg up to heavyweights).
Just read a great article at [coding horror](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000983.html) on becoming a good blogger. It says that it takes at least a year to even get noticed and main peace of advice is to keep punching and feel good about it.
There are twoimportant things to understand when dealing with CSS - how to address elementyou are styling and why in the world it does not picking the style you aretrying to assign it.
When you are a developer working with CSS on “as needed” bases, you have to be prepared for some pain and frustration. Don’t get me wrong, I love CSS – and what not to love?
