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News Blog - For August 2009

1. Send in your Service.config File

   The service.config file is where AtomSite stores all the configuration information about your workspaces, collections, pages, widgets, and plugins.  I've posted some examples on the Service.config documentation page.  These examples should show you the power of what is possible with AtomSite.  We are working to expose all of this potential in the AtomSite Manager.

   To help guide other users, please post your Service.config example so we can add it to the site.

   You can send them to me (Jarrett):

   • Post a comment below with a link
   • Post it to CodePlex discussion
   • Email it to jarrettv@gmail.com

   So far we have:

   1. AtomSite.net Service.config
   2. JVance.com Service.config
   3. PoshCode.org Service.config
   Posted by JarrettV on August 31 at 7:31 PM

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2. AtomSite 1.2 Settings Release

   This release of AtomSite 1.2 has improved composite web site performance by allowing asset combining and minification.  To support this new feature, we reorganized the folders where assets are stored.

   Type	Folder	Example
   Cascading Stylesheets	/css	/css/default/CommentWidget.css
   Images	/img	/img/default/icon.png
   Javascript	/js	/js/default/CommentWidget.js
   Plugins	/plugins	/plugins/CommentPlugin.1.0.0.0.zip
   View Files & Theme Info	/themes	/themes/default/CommentView.aspx

   This new feature greatly reduces the number of requests made to download a page.  The biggest performance improvements can be seen in the AtomSite Manager where each page contains many widgets.  Not only does it make each page load faster, but development is easier as well.  For example, a widget can have it's own stylesheet and javascript files making things easier to manage and locate.

   Learn More About Asset Combination

   This release also includes improvements to the AtomSite Manager.  Many of the settings in the service.config file are now exposed on the Settings screen (see to the right).  The screen shows different options for each scope: Entire Site, Workspace, Collection.  These screen support:

   • Adding/removing administrators
   • Adding workspaces (in multi-workspace mode only)
   • Adding collections
   • Adding/removing authors and contributors
   • Changing which content types a collection accepts
   • Removing categories
   • Changing other settings

   For a complete list of changes with this release see the release page on CodePlex.

   Download Release 1.2

   Posted by JarrettV on August 04 at 6:06 PM

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