Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I’ve been requiring visitors to create a site account to leave comments on my blog for some time now. I never liked doing it, of course, but my BlogEngine.NET 1.6 spam filtering wasn’t working correctly.  I knew BlogEngine.NET’s spam-fighting capabil... [More]

This is the second post in the Sueetie Going Mobile Series describing how it was possible to create a mobile version of the Sueetie Online Community and its applications. This post focuses on BlogEngine.NET, whose developers led the way with a mobile arch... [More]

There was a flood of pingback spam hitting .NET-based blogs over the last 24 hours as you may or may not know. In discussing it on Twitter someone tweeted about modifying the Comment Email Extension to do IP filtering which is when it dawned on me that Su... [More]

When Al Nyveldt announced the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6 a few days ago I knew that whatever was on my geek calendar would have to wait until I was running the latest version of this most excellent blogging application. The BE.NET 1.6 Release Notes ar... [More]

I'm honored to get such great feedback from users on how to improve Sueetie.  Some of the issues they share with me are so obvious that I'm embarrassed to have not thought of them myself.  Thanks to those users and frequent Gummy Bear updates, I... [More]

If you’ve ever gone to my blog over the years you’ll know that I’m not much of a widget guy.  I like a simple sidebar with only the essentials. As Twitter has become a more important element in Digital Daily I decided to finally do the deed and put a... [More]

Below is a copy of the latest Sueetie Wiki document, how to configure a Sueetie Blog to support Microsoft LiveWriter. The entire process consists of updating two properties in the BlogEngine.NET app.config file, so it's super simple. The properties we ar... [More]

The day after Turkey Day, or Fatpants Friday, is a good day to relax and do some light geeking. My Post-Turkey Day geeking included BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Restored my Sueetie development baseline to YAF 1.9.3 Sueetie Control Panel Membershi... [More]

The following is a copy of a new Sueetie Wiki page that shows Gummy Bear administrators how to add editors and owners to site blogs. Still at a formative phase of Sueetie evolution, creating blogs and their users remains a manual process. That will change... [More]

You could say I've spent a lot of quality time working with BlogEngine.NET 1.5 in Visual Studio, and yet I couldn't figure why I couldn't enjoy a good old-fashioned .NET Runtime Error when I screwed something up.  Instead I encountered something like... [More]