Open Source

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Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server

Technorati Tags: Tools,Open Source,Wiki The docs are “ok” at best so here are my quick instructions to help you understand quickly how to get ScrewTurn Wiki configured to use a SQL Server Database. This is based on version 2. of the wiki.  The RC0 3.0 has improved the process a LOT so if you are not using the RC, this should help you save a lot of time and frustration for older versions of the Wiki. Steps: 1) Download the ScrewTurn wiki source code 2) Compile it 3) Run it and once the site comes up, on the left...

posted @ Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:34 PM | Feedback (3)

Subtext Admin Password Does Not Work

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source For some reason, some Subtext blogs may have an issue whereas no matter if you use the reset password or not, you can’t log back into your Admin interface.  That is, the url http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin. I ended up having to actually update not the Subtext_Host table (as outlined here) but rather the Subtext_Config.  What’s the difference?  Well, the Subtext_Host holds auth information for signing into the Host Admin tool: http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain/hostadmin while the Subtext_Config table has config settings for your blog including username & password for your blog, or in other words, to log into http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin So to...

posted @ Monday, April 13, 2009 1:01 AM | Feedback (0)

Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source If you are looking for a free .NET based open source blogging application, Subtext may be for you or your company.  It’s a mature and established blogging framework founded by MS employee Phil Haack.  My site is using Subtext and I’ve been very happy with it as compared to solutions such as Telligent Community Server which are not free and are quite heavy and complicated just for running a simple blog for you or your company. Here is the rundown of its current benefits as I’ve experienced: > Free > OpenID integration > Constantly changes...

posted @ Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:17 PM | Feedback (23)

How-To: Setup Subtext with Windows Live Writer for Localhost

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Windows Live Writer,Open Source,Tools Subtext is a great open source blogging application that is free and has simply been getting better and better over time.  This allows you to post to your blog locally for whatever reasons that you may have a need to do so (testing custom code, etc.). To setup Windows Live Writer to work with Subtext for localhost, perform the following steps below. (At the time of this post I was using Subtext v2.0 with Windows Live Writer v12.0.1370.325 and has also worked in previous versions of Live Writer)  ...

posted @ Friday, September 05, 2008 1:42 AM | Feedback (0)