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TinyThings back up - in dasBlog

I just got TinyThings back up.

It crapped out earlier in the day when I tried to upgrade to Community Sever 2.0 Beta 3.

Community Server is a fantastic application, but it’s overkill for my needs, and when something went wrong during the upgrade, I narrowed my options down to:

1) Moving to Mexico, changing my name, buying some suspiciously cheap land near a beach, and opening a resort where, during the first week, all the guests develop some kind of strange and very contagious skin disease (I would later discover that the land was so cheap because the sand on the property was part of a black-ops Mexican governmental experiment in natural sewage filtration)

2) Switching to dasBlog

I was going to do #1 (really – I was), but they were all out of tickets to Mexico. I was like, “But this is my dream.” They didn’t care. No tickets is no tickets.

So, instead, I switched to dasBlog and modified Scott’s nifty little [Blog Application X] to dasBlog converter.

I haven’t brought comments over yet, but at least the shows and links are there.

It also means I can go to bed.

Good night, everybody. I love you all.

P.S.

If anybody knows of a kick-ass .Text .94 to dasBlog converter, then please let me know. I’m probably going to switch soon, and I’d rather not code all the tools by hand. Thanks.

Published Monday, February 06, 2006 9:01 AM by Rory

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Greg said:

I watched and commented (classic back-seat coder eh?) as Scott threw together something similar to what you linked to above - an RSS to dasBlog converter:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RSSFeedToDasBlogContentConverter.aspx

Hey, only one or two layers of abstraction. :)
February 6, 2006 3:36 PM
 

Bil Simser said:

Good to see you finally got it "up". I was worried there for a bit, but technology always seems to win out in the end. dasBlog is a good choice and seems to be pretty stable, popular, etc.

Personally I would have gone the Mexico route as you can always hitch a ride with someone on the freeway in the back of a pickup (and work on your Spanish or Esperanto on the trip down).
February 6, 2006 4:46 PM
 

Joshua Flanagan said:

I used:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blogconverter/

There aren't any binaries posted, so you need to use anonymous CVS to pull down the code and compile it yourself (its like running linux!).

You'll also want to check out Scott's recent post about maintaining permalinks:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MaintainingPermaLinksWhenMovingFromTextToDasBlog.aspx
February 6, 2006 6:26 PM
 

Darren Neimke said:

Hi Rory, this may soon be a problem of the past if BlogML starts gaining traction:

http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=3c26123a-f806-4dd6-b94b-94ec8c7733b3

There are already implementations of BlogML readers and writers for many of the common blogs but I'm hopeful that by working with the people that produce these blogs that I can get it supported more "natively". There's a .Text 0.94 -> BlogML writer here if you'd like to try it out:

http://notgartner.com/posts/3632.aspx

I also currently have a BlogML writer and reader that works with DasBlog but which hasn't been fully tested yet. I can it to you if you'd like to give it a try.

The idea is that you'd run the .Text - BlogML converter to create BlogML from your .Text blog, then you'd run the DasBlogBlogMLReader to import the BlogML into your DasBlog blog.

BlogML stores:

- Categories
- Posts
- Post Categories
- Post Attachments (such as embedded images)
- Post Trackbacks

February 6, 2006 7:52 PM
 

bliz said:

i once knew a couple of people in portland (don't know if you've heard of them) who were working on a community blog engine. they used to hang out in a starbucks and occasionally wrote a line or two of code. maybe those guys wrote a converter. worth a shot asking. . .
February 6, 2006 11:51 PM
 

Thomas said:

Links dont seem to work for the .exe and source? at least not for the latest show. Bastard.
February 7, 2006 2:09 AM
 

Rory said:

Thomas -

Fixed it.

Thanks for letting me know.
February 7, 2006 3:12 AM
 

Thomas said:

's what I do.
February 7, 2006 4:48 AM
 

Thomas said:

On another note, could you look into fixing that text at the top? It goes on top of the header, both in firefox and IE (also firefox doesnt have any gradiant background).
February 7, 2006 4:50 AM
 

Kevin Daly said:

Um, it looks like it's down again.
It's coming up with the ol' Red and Yellow Screen of Death (the one that makes every ASP.NET developer instinctively flinch).
February 7, 2006 12:46 PM
 

Bil Simser said:

You know, TinyThings needs a mascot. I mean, the Channel 9 guy is everywhere (we took lots of pics of him at PDC) and recognizable.

MS seems to have come out with something along those lines here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/
Although it's far from what I would consider super hero material as Superman would kick these guys butts.

I think TinyThings needs a mascot. A recognizable figurehead to steer listeners towards and recognize at parties and professional outings. Something that you, Rory Blyth, can hold above your head and call your own. You know, for kids.
February 7, 2006 2:23 PM
 

Ian said:

"I think TinyThings needs a mascot"

you mean like an Ewok?
February 7, 2006 8:32 PM
 

Mrdavidjenkins said:

Looks like it is down again. Still having trouble with the SDK.
February 7, 2006 10:27 PM
 

Rory said:

"Looks like it is down again. Still having trouble with the SDK."

Hmm... I just took a look at the site, and it seems OK.

Which file is giving you trouble?
February 7, 2006 11:00 PM
 

Mads Kristensen said:

You gotta love dasBlog. It is so easy to setup and use. One nice-to-have thing though, is a online theme editor like wordpress. Where you can edit the stylesheets directly in a textarea. Anyway, dasBlog rules...
February 8, 2006 11:19 PM
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