Update: I’ve created a new NuGet Package for Subkismet (Package Id is “subkismet”) which will make it much easier to include this in your own projects. Been a short break from blogging, but I’m ready to get back to writing about Cody, I mean code! My philosophy towards Open Source Software is that the more sharing that goes on between projects, the better off for everyone. As my friend Micah likes to say, A rising tide lifts all boats. Towards that end, I’ve tried to structure Subtext as much as possible into distinct reusable libraries. The danger...
Making the world safe for trackbacks again! UPDATE: A bug was reported that blog posts could not be deleted. We have updated the release files with a fixed version. There’s also a quick and dirty workaround. You only need to apply the fix if you downloaded and installed Subtext before this update message was posted. See here for details. Well it took me a little longer than anticipated, but I finally teased out the remaining show stopper bugs and put the finishing touches on Subtext 1.9.2. If you plan on upgrading to Subtext 1.9.2, please consider reading this entire post carefully. If not,...
This is a bit of rant born out of some frustrations I have with ASP.NET. When setting the trust level of an ASP.NET site, you have the following options:Full, High, Medium, Low, Minimal It turns out that many web hosting companies have chosen to congregate around Medium trust as a sweet spot in terms of tightened security while still allowing decent functionality. Only natural as it is the one in the middle. For the most part, I am sure there are very good reasons for which permissions make it into Medium trust and which ones are not allowed. But...
Recently I wrote a .NET based Akismet API component for Subtext. In attempting to make as clean as interface as possible, I made the the type of the property to store the commenter’s IP address of type IPAddress. This sort of falls in line with the Framework Design Guidelines, which mention using the Uri class in your public interface rather than a string to represent an URL. I figured this advice equally applied to IP Addresses as well. To obtain the user’s IP Address, I simply used the UserHostAddress property of the HttpRequest object like so. HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress
The UserHostAddress property is...