December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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13.3 Creating a Blog with Subtext
Working on a team requires a lot of communication, but communication in and of itself isn’t enough. There has to be an efficient means of distributing information to interested stakeholders and archiving it for later searching and retrieval.
Two types of information are typically generated in a project: a chronological stream of announcements and reference information. While Wikis are well suited to the latter option, blogs (internal and external) are great for the former. They serve as an excellent forum to disseminate announcements and information, as well as a very good way to foster feedback on decisions.
Subtext, a blogging engine for the ASP.NET platform, is a perfect solution. Subtext supports a rich set of features for collaboration and blogging.
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Tool | Subtext |
Version covered | 1.5 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Powerful full-featured blogging engine |
License type | BSD |
Online resources | Forums, mailing lists, FAQ, Wiki, bug tracker |
Related tools in this book | Community Server, Basecamp, FlexWiki |
Getting Started
Subtext requires ASP.NET 1.1 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 running on Windows XP, 2000, or 2003. It also requires SQL Server 2000 or 2005.
Subtext provides a web-based installation routine to set up all its database tables and stored procedures. To install it, ...
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