Switching to WordPress and new domain Learnaholic.me

A little change is always necessary in life, so I made a huge one!

Due to many spam of SEO players on my latest BlogEngine.NET blog. I decide to go for WordPress especially for his good anti-spam plugin Akismet and many easy to install valuable plugins.

I have transfer all blog post here, and redirect old one to point to here, my new Blog. I hope there will be no drastic changes in the future, and time to write more interesting blogs and also more frequent than right now!

For near future changes, I have to setup and write some things here on blog like a customization for comments, a page for contact, a little bit more content and structure in my About page and maybe a sitemap page. Some logo would be nice…

However, sorry for any inconvenience (spammers are not included)!

BlogEngine Tip: Set gmail account as E-mail in Settings of BlogEngine.NET

I have several emails and also one here in Codelite but in my day I’m only watching gmail account. Here is the tip to setup the E-mail settings of BlogEngine.NET.

First and foremost open your web.config and change or add:

• change
  <trust level=“High“ /> to <trust level=“Full“ />
• add
  Inside <system.web>  add <trust level=“Full“ />

In Control Panel of BlogEngine.NET click on Settings and find E-mail:

SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com.

Port Number: 465 or 587.

Username: must have nickname and @gmail.com.

Enable SSL: must be checked.

Send comment e-mail: Checked if you want receive the comments through mail.

Subject prefix: I usually add [] so for me it is [Codelite]. The purpose of subject prefix is when you get a comment you know to what it is referring e.g. I could have such subject in my mailbox – [Codelite] comment on Testing source code.

An at last click on button Test mail settings and you should get Test successfull.

… and finally comes the time for Blogging!

For about a year now, I’m planning to set up blog form my geeky programming thoughts, experiences and ideas. Even though I set up my first blog in march of 2006 on my collage page and those were my PHP years, so it was driven by universally popular WordPress blog engine.

Today I tried to see that blog but the password for the database user was old and I couldn’t get to the blog content. So, I try to find the password and when I found it I couldn’t change my wp-config.php because the /home directory on our college has no space left. Yes, and I need it at least 10 minutes to figure it why it won’t let me to create or update a file on disc.  Do you want proof?  No problem!

Veleri server has no space on disk!

But I shall try, once when the space won’t be an issue, to bring back my old blog which it is written in Croatian language, but it’s still my first blog, and I want to have reference to it.

Last year I started doing a lot .NET coding because I really don’t like PHP as language especially its Object-Oriented part. So few days before that I was giving seminar in Opatija at CASE conference, or exactly it was CASE 20 last year, I setup my first ASP.NET blog on Graffiti CMS by Telligent. Graffiti is pretty simple and powerful blog and CMS tool. Its proprietary software but have its Expression Edition that allow only 3 publishers, which was more than enough for me.

But I was searching something different and Open Source so I first find dasBlog. Mainly because I like blog and figure of Scott Hanselman, and he is also a coordinator of dasBlog, but after few hours playing with it, I found that I don’t like dasBlog. So, I started to search and the next victim vas BlogEngine.NET. That was love at first sight and I really, really love this blog engine (Yes, how silly it sound “I really love BlogEngine.NET blog engine!”). His default version has XML based content so I, with no time spend, found videos how to setup SQL Server based content. Now, I was having I blog, but still no inspiration what to write, I wrote one post and also have one comment from someone thanking me for my post.

Then a some months ago my host provider erase all from my site and database. So I was trying to setup BlogEngine.NET (I think it was version 1.4.5) but I couldn’t set it to work. I have trouble adding entry and commenting the posts. So i setup Graffiti CMS one more time, but final rescue came from news feed of releasing BlogEngine.NET 1.5, and much more rescue came from Al Nyveldt’s screencast and BlogEngine.NET was set it in half hour. With no problem at all.

I could say that Scott Hansellman is one to blame for his presentation on Devscovery in NYC with “Social Networking to Be a Better Developer and Keep/Get Jobs” and of course my geeky co-worker in Multilink Hrvoje Hudoletnjak who has tweet about it.

All I have to do right now is posting on my blog and learn to make new theme for my blog and replace this one. There’s also a BlogEngine.NET extensions to download and set up especially ones for source code.

Because this is my programming blog the default language for all post will be English and no Croatian at all!

UPDATE: On 19.7.2009 due to constant spams on BlogEngine blog engine I decide to go for blog engine WordPress, mainly because its great anti-spam plugin called Akismet.