Oxite Posts

  • Oxite: Blog Description & Profile Management

    Sunday, January 10, 2010

    Following my Oxite blog post series, I add some extra functionality to the administration panel of the blog engine as well as some little changes to the blog engine title, shown on the front-end. Also I'll use this oportunity to give a little insight about Oxite's core and internal structure.

    Let's vent first...

    If you search and read reviews you may notice that Oxite it's not considered to be good at all. Actually is not referred as a Microsoft ASP .NET MVC Framework guidance project, not even a starter kit. Adding to that I'm absolutely sure when I say it's not even close to a "Best Practices & Patterns" repository for ASP .NET MVC Framework enthusiasts.

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  • Oxite: Customizing the comments area

    Tuesday, October 27, 2009

    Continuing my Oxite series of blog posts I'll address the comments area. For my taste oxite is missing a couple of things on the comments listing and comments posting department. It doesn't have a way to ensure that the comment being posted is not being generated by a bot. I've already been a victim of this and to be honest I'm not a fan of SPAM, so let's stop that! Oxite also doesn't have a special style for comments posted by the site admin. In this blog post we are going to address this issues by implementing a css class that helps the reader identify a site administrator comment from a blog comment's list and a captcha validation for the comments input.

    For these tasks I'll be using css and reCAPTCHA, which is owned by google and it's used among popular sites as Facebook, The New York Times, StackOverflow, TicketMaster, etc. It's worth pointing out that reCaptcha was initially conceived in Carnegie Mellon University, where the term "CAPTCHA" was initially coined. The term contrives from the acronym "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."

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  • Oxite: Meets TinyMCE

    Wednesday, September 16, 2009

    This is the first of a series of blog posts I'll be doing about Oxite, a simple blog engine written using ASP .NET MVC. Which happens to be the one I'm using to administrate and maintain my blog. On my first post I stated that I intended modify the blogging engine and complete it my way. I already created a list of features, that I'd like to see in it in order to get things going.

    So, according to ME, the first "missing" feature in Oxite, is a wysiwyg. I know it can be integrated with live writer, but c'mon a blog engine shouldn't rely on third party applications, even though integration with those it's a nice feature.

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