News Blog - For March 2009
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AtomSite 0.9 Modularity Release
Note: AtomSite was previously known as BlogSvc
The ninth release of AtomSite is major change towards modularity. Also, this release contains the following new or improved features:
New Plug-in Support
- Installation
- Drop in bin folder
- Supports extracting embedded theme/script files to correct folders
- Register Additional View Engines
- Registering Routes
- Supports collection constraints
- Support for multiple workspaces (areas)
- Support for secure routes (https)
- Dynamic Controllers
- Services
- Supports cross-service events via singletons
- Widgets
- Supports both composite and simple view type widgets
- Supports three different scopes, Service, Workspace, Collection
- Widget can register stylesheet dependency link
- Widget can register javascript dependency link
- Widget can include in-line script at bottom of page
- Widget can have nested widgets
- Widgets can be cached (with proper authorization support)
- Planned support for script/style compression and consolidation planned
- Planned support for drag drop widget management planned
- Themes
- Revised to use YUI layout grids to support dynamic templates
- Side bar can be moved to either side
- Supports multiple fixed-widths and fluid layout
- Metadata
- Data could be used to install, register, uninstall
- Planned support for plug-in admin pages
- Planned support to submit to a global plug-in registry
- Merits
- Supports order in which plug-in is activated
- Supports overwriting previous plug-in routes
New OpenId Plugin included and enabled out of the box.
To go along with the name change, we also have a new website. I am working on setting up the plugin and theme areas. Also, I've organized the documentation area and will be updating and adding information for this release over the next week.
Visit the release page on codeplex to download.
- Installation
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BlogSvc.net is now AtomSite
We have changed the name of BlogSvc.net to AtomSite starting with the next version. The benefits of this change are:
- This app is more than just a blog engine, it is a full CMS
- Atom syndication format and AtomPub are the core of this app
- Just as Atom is extensible, this app is extensible
- The app is great for building and managing a website
- Easier to spell, no abbreviation
We hope you agree that AtomSite is a great name for this Atom based website publishing system.
