Tech talk about BlogEngine.NET

Mar 2, 2008

Last year I was asked to do a tech talk at Microsoft headquarters in Copenhagen about open source and BlogEngine.NET. I said yes of course. The date has been set to this wednesday. It’s a two hour event and it’s free for anyone to participate in so sign up here.

I’m going through the history of BlogEngine.NET and look at some of the decisions made in the past – both in terms of architecture and organization. After that we’ll be looking at some code and see how open source have influenced the code base and driven some of the decisions. Lastly we are looking at the overall architecture and discuss the pros and cons.

I think it’s going to be really interesting with some great discussions along the way. The lack of unit tests will definitely start a discussion as well as the decision not to use third-party assemblies. Did I mention that we don’t use CAPTCHA for comment spam protection and that we cache external JavaScript files? Hmmmmm…

The more I think about it, BlogEngine.NET seems really strange. So if you want to know why directly from the horse’s mouth, then come to the tech talk wednesday the 5th of March at 9:00 am. Breakfast is included.

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Comments (6) -

TweeZz
TweeZz
3/3/2008 4:13:51 AM #

Hi Mads, I would love to come, but euuuhmmm I guess I live a bit to far. Will the tech talk be filmed? I would love to hear some of the discussions...

Davide Espertini
Davide Espertini Italy
3/3/2008 6:23:26 AM #

Hi Mads, I would love to come, but euuuhmmm I guess I live a bit to far. Will the tech talk be filmed? I would love to hear some of the discussions...

Frown Milano is too far away from you..... Frown

Miron Abramson
Miron Abramson Israel
3/3/2008 7:45:43 AM #

Welcome back Mads,
Euuuhmmm...  The same as the first two... Argentina is little to far away from you Frown

Nebbercracker
Nebbercracker United States
3/3/2008 11:15:23 AM #

I would love to attend, I just wish this was in the US.  Let me know if you ever decide to have a BlogEngine Conference States-side, or maybe in France next year!

Daniel
Daniel Denmark
3/4/2008 5:05:45 AM #

Hej Mads.

Jeg ønsker dig alt held og lykke med din Tech Talk imorgen - det bliver stort og rigtig godt. Det jeg sikker på.

Fyr den af.

Steve Trefethen
Steve Trefethen United States
3/31/2008 5:39:42 PM #

I currently use dasBlog and this past weekend I took a look at Blogengine.NET and even went so far as to export/import my content to test it out. I have several questions about some of the design decisions and would love to hear this talk.

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Program Manager at the Microsoft Web Platform team and founder of BlogEngine.NET.

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