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A New Sub In Town

Darren Neimke apparently is not one to shy away from a bit of trash talk. He IM’d me via MSN recently to warn me about a new SUB, ready to take down Subtext. In this case, it is his newly open sourced blog engine, SingleUserBlog or SUB, which is now hosted on CodePlex. Darren has been on a roll lately with the recent release of BlogML 2.0. Now SUB enters the scene with torpedoes blazing!

But Darren must know he is not dealing with a complete novice in warfare. I deftly guided him to choose the BSD license. So should they implement something I must have, I can just take it, BWAHAHA! (with proper attribution of course, following all terms of the license and other legal mumbo jumbo)

Darren, I believe I sunk your battleship.

What others have said

Jivi Sep 06, 2006 5:50 AM

# re: A New Sub In Town

haha !

xingwei liang Sep 06, 2006 3:30 PM

# re: A New Sub In Town

I am using .TEXT 0.95. There is an issue with it when I am working. The PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance is supposed to return a IHttpHander. Then the master page init() gets called. However, the code does not behave correctly. Sometimes it calls, once it calls init, the page (homepage.ascx) displayed correctly. Once it does not call, the site returns a blank page.

I am wondering if you know something about it?

haacked Sep 06, 2006 6:52 PM

# re: A New Sub In Town

Can't really help you with the .TEXT code as I've long forgotten it. I'd suggest upgrading to Subtext 1.5.2 or 1.9 if you can run ASP.NET 2.0.

Willie Tilton Sep 07, 2006 5:00 PM

# re: A New Sub In Town

I'm glad that there's competition out there, but wonder if another blog OSS was needed. Rhetorical question: Doesn't Subtext already support single user blogs? Why create something "written from the ground up" when something already exists that is supported by developers, users, and has a community? Why not just jump in and extend the functionality of the existing software (Subtext in this case).

So far Subtext has met all of my needs, I just want a multi-user blog setup. If I do need something further, I'll contribute to the project, not rewrite an entirely new application. Just MHO.

Haacked Sep 08, 2006 1:03 AM

# re: A New Sub In Town

To be fair, I think SUB was around before Subtext (but after .TEXT?)

Darren is taking a different approach, more in line with web parts and such.