Very first Blogo.NET screenshot »
FERDY CHRISTANT - FEB 23, 2008 (03:52:57 PM)
Earlier, I announced a new s3maphor3 project, Blogo.NET. Blogo.NET is a ASP.NET version of Blogo that I'm building. With a basic backend in place, today I played around a bit with the UI. Here is a first screenshot:
What are we looking at here?
- The design I got from Open Source Web Design, a great site for open source web site templates. Since my project is about building up .NET skills, I will not bother crafting my own CSS. The design is put in a master page so that I can reuse it in all my ASP.NET pages.
- I have used the new ListView and DataPager controls of .NET 3.5 to display the blog entries (left column) and tags (right column) from the database. These control are data-bound to an ObjecDataSource control. The datasource control calls my business objects layer, which uses the LINQ data access classes to retrieve data from the database.
- Everything else is static HTML at this point. There are many more screens to build, including the admin pages. I'd say I'm at 20% of total development right now, but things are going smooth so far.
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Comments: 2
COMMENT: JUAN F. RUIZ
FEB 24, 2008 - 14:16:00
I'm thinking that you can't stop working .. This may be a problem ... ( I'm joking, of course ).
It's good to learn new technologies and .Net, in my humble opinion, is more or less like Java, but ... with some of the annoyances of Microsoft ....
Don't forget Domino, Ferdy!
Regards from Spain!
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COMMENT: FERDY
FEB 25, 2008 - 07:39:21 AM
Concerning .NET, there's things I like and dislike but the same goes for Domino. I will write about my thoughts on .NET as part of the project evaluation of Blogo.NET. I have definitely not left the Domino community: I still occassionally write Domino articles and I still maintain Blogo. It's just that I currently see more value in getting myself comfortable with other platforms, in the end it will make me a better, platform-neutral software engineer. «