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AddThis for blogengine.net

Matt — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:37:38 -0400

Sign up for an account at AddThis and you'll get your YOURID
Put this code in the place of the Kickit, del.icio.us, etc. links in PostView.ascx:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=YOURID&url=<%=Post.PermaLink %>&title=<%=Post.Title %>" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Bookmark and Share" /></a>
See below for an example

Window Live Writer Error Fix: Server Error 0 Occurred - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Matt — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:43:43 -0400

I got this error today. The fix is simple:

If you have multiple blogs configured, in the post window, you can switch to another blog, and then back to the blog you want and that will cause the Writer to drop the post ID information so you can re-publish as a new post. VIA

Another tip

Quick tip to get blogengine.net working on Godaddy

Matt — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:44:15 -0400

Comment out this line in your web.config file like so:

Additionally, if you installed blogengine.net in the root of your server and have problems with other asp.net applications, you can limit child applications from inheriting your root web.config by:

Put this right above the <system.web> line (~line 39):
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
Put this right after the </system.web>: </location>

I hope this helps someone.

Some Video Avatars

Matt — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:52:15 -0400

Right-click > Save Picture as:

Michael Cheval

Matt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:36:15 -0400

Dump - a new tiny project

Matt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:35:47 -0400

Who Killed Jessie? by Vaclav Vorlicek

Matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:37:00 -0400

The Czech New Wave is one of the most exciting periods for film people and Who Killed Jessie? is one of a handful of classics. This film features the most successful attempt at fusing comics books and film. Archetypal characters like "Superman" and "Cowboy" and the titular Jessie, a female superhero/sexpot, take us on a madcap adventure when they are materialized into the real world via a scientific experiment - from a scientist's dreams. There are subtexts related to authoritarianism and freedom but ultimately it really works on the level of a briskly paced magical adventure. See this if you can!

Opening

[mediaplayer:jessie.flv]

Screens

[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/images/jessie;]

Brewster McCloud by Robert Altman

Matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:52:00 -0400

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans. When the fateful day arrives, and he enters the dome with his fanciful construction of bird wings, Brewster is surrounded by the police. Will he be caught before he attempts to fly? Source

Altman's Brewster McCloud is a magical film that sees life as a somewhat absurd journey of unfulfilled dreams, but not as a process of frustration - more of a monomaniacal vision of freedom. Brewster dreams of literal flight. He also has a guardian that also seems like a mother figure, a bird mother and spiritual guide. There is Python-esque narration that flows throughout making parallels between the world of ornithology and anthropology. Interesting characters (Stacy Keach is great) make the story flow briskly. Popular culture references, political commentary, quirky characters, a car chase - this is something not to be missed if you're lucky enough to view it. An absurd, quirky gem - not surprising consider the title character is played by Bud Cort.

Opening

[mediaplayer:brewster.flv]

Screens

[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/images/bm;]

Some random photos by Rene Magritte

Matt — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:12:20 -0400

I wish I could remember where I found these...more about Magritte.

[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/images/magritte;]

Maxthon Super Search Addons

Matt — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:54:38 -0400

Homepage for Maxthon < 2.0 but may work for > 2.0

Step 1: Edit plugin.iniIncrement the number by one

[MyIE2Buttons]  Count=31

Then at the bottom on the file

Name31=Search Title  FileName31=search_name.html

Note: Make sure that the numbers are the same!

Step 2: Copy the search html files - download:
search_title.html - this goes in the C:\Program Files\Maxthon\Plugin\Super Search folder

Available Addons

Slipcue Example - Useful for looking up Brazilian and World music album reviews and information

Allmovie

Urban Dictionary Example

Dusty Groove Example - Useful for looking up Brazilian and World music album reviews and information

Windows Live Writer Portable

Matt — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:42:43 -0400

Currently works with the latest version:

Senza Paura

Matt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:49:25 -0400

One of my favorite songs...

This is Ornella Vanoni, Vinicius de Moraes e Toquinho - La Voglia. La Pazzia, L'Incoscienza, L'Allegria (1976), for RGE. Ornella Vanoni is an Italian singer, born in 1934 and has the status of one of the greatest Italian music diva ever. In this LP, Ornella Vanoni sings Vinicius de Moraes repertoire with Italian lyrics and it is one of her most acclaimed works. The blending of Ornella, Vinicius and Toquinho voices is very nice with the accompaniment of Toquinho's guitar supporting the rhythm section in most of the tracks. Via

[wmv:SenzaPaura.wma]

Art by Patricia Villanuev

Matt — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:28:11 -0400

Crow Jane by Holly Golightly

[wmv:HGCrowJane.wma]

FLV Media Player for for BlogEngine.NET

Matt — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:30:58 -0400

Notes

Replaces the previous FLV Player for BlogEngine.NET. I need some help in defining all of the playable formats. Right now I have flv, mp3, xml and asp (for playlists). With all of the great embedded players you can now play just about any media file you need to. You can customize how you want the player to display very easily by editing mediaplayer.cs. I coded it for my layout with a smaller width than you may need.

Acknowledgments

A copy with minor adjustments of the great MP3 Player plugin.

Features

Plays flv, mp3 and xml playlist files in an embedded player using JW FLV Media Player.

Notes

Plays any file type that JW FLV Player supports.
You can customize every aspect of the player by editing mediaplayer.cs
By default the player size is 320x240 and it doesn't autoplay

Installation

Download the zip.
Unzip using any archive manager. At the top of unzipped package you should have two items: "mediaplayer" folder and "mediaplayer.cs" file.
Copy mediaplayer.cs into your BlogEngine extensions directory (/App_Code/Extensions).
Copy "mediaplayer" folder with all it content into root of your BlogEngine application - this is where you'll upload your media files for embedding also. Make sure ASP.NET has at least read permissions on this folder. (you can delete the test files after you verify it works - they're not needed)

Using

Create a blog post. Add this line anywhere in the post: [ mediaplayer:test.flv ] (without the spaces)
You should see something like the embedded player below

Examples

Single FLV

Code: [ mediaplayer:test.flv ]

[mediaplayer:test.flv]

Single MP3

Code: [ mediaplayer:test.mp3 ]

[mediaplayer:test.mp3]

XML Playlist

Code: [ mediaplayer:http://mirror.video.blip.tv/hot-shows.xml ]

[mediaplayer:http://mirror.video.blip.tv/hot-shows.xml]

Silverlight Player

Matt — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:45:00 -0400

The silverlight player is nicer than my wmv player but the main reason why I developed it was to play wma files - they're so much smaller. You can get the same quality at roughly half the bitrate of mp3 which means almost CD quality at 64 kbps or .5 megabytes per minute.

[silverlight:test.wmv]

WMV (and WMA) Player for BlogEngine.NET

Matt — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:27:00 -0400

Acknowledgments

A copy with minor adjustments of the great MP3 Player plugin.

Features

Plays wmv and wma files in an embedded player using JW WMV PLAYER.

Notes

Plays WMV and WMA files.
You can customize every aspect of the player by editing wmvplayer.cs in notepad
By default the player size is 320x240 for wmv and 320x20 for wma and it doesn't autoplay

Installation

Download the zip.
Unzip using any archive manager. At the top of unzipped package you should have two items: "wmv" folder and "wmvplayer.cs" file.
Copy wmvplayer.cs into your BlogEngine extensions directory (/App_Code/Extensions).
Copy "wmv" folder with all it content into root of your BlogEngine application - this is where you'll upload your wmv/wma files for embedding also. Make sure ASP.NET has at least read permissions on this folder. (you can delete the test files after you verify it works - they're not needed)

Using

Create a blog post. Add this line anywhere in the post: [ wmv:test.wma ] without the spaces
You should see something like the embedded player below

WMA Example

[wmv:test.wma]

Lost Ana Mazzotti Album

Matt — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:46:00 -0400

Does anyone on the web know where I can find this lost Mazzotti album?

GTA GTA-LP030 - 1974 Top Tape Label

Maybe the great Loronix will find this one...

Update: Zecalouro has informed me that, sadly, this is an updated cover for her album Ninguem Vai
me Segurar (1974)

Using Windows Live Writer with BlogEngine.NET

Matt — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:58:47 -0400

Using Windows Live Writer is great with BlogEngine.NET, in fact it's preferable for one specific reason: the included HTML editor in BlogEngine messes up your inline code. If you're trying to use my flv player extension you may have noticed that even when you use the HTML view (not WYSIWYG) your code still gets formatted and the video won't display. The trick is to use WLW but when you publish your post, make sure your view is HTML Code (Shift+F11). Then your inline code won't be altered.

Setting up WLW is easy, just put the Weblog Homepage URL of your blog like the example below and WLW will autodetect everything else. That's all WLW needs.

BlogEngine.Net Gallery User Control - Version 1.0 - Autothumb

Matt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:54:00 -0400

Adapted from BlogEngine.Net Gallery User Control - Version 1.0. Here's the difference, that script created thumbnails whereas this script just autogenerates the thumbnails using an aspx page. No permissions to worry about and no extra file creation. This is useful for adding a folder of images to a post and not clogging up your server with added thumbnail images. Keep in mind that the user will be downloading the images completely in the background with the scripting doing the thumbnails (and retaining aspect ratio). It's not recommended for large galleries but hopefully we'll have a full fledged gallery module for this blog software in the future anyway.

Download

Installation:

Put the "user controls" in that folder on your server.
Put thumbnailimage.aspx in the root (/) folder of you domain
Edit Gallery.ascx depending on what you have set up on your blog

lyteshow[thegallery] - slideshow version using lytebox
lytebox[thegallery] - single paging image using lytebox
lightbox[thegallery] - single paging image using lightbox

The example below is using lyteshow. There is really only one page, Gallery.ascx, that you'll have to edit based on what you have installed on your server. You shouldn't need to touch Gallery.ascx.cs except to read the instructions that were written by the original author on how to include the gallery in your post.

[usercontrol: /user controls/gallery.ascx ImageUrl=/blog/images/test;]

Brazilian Jukebox

Matt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:42:06 -0400

Featuring my favorite Brazilian songs! All are 96kbps MP3 files. Enjoy!

Portuguese	English
Joyce's Feminina (odeon smofb 422862 cd) 1979 Feminina "Feminine"
Ó mãe, me explica me ensina,	Oh, mother, explain, teach me,
Me diz o que é Feminina	Tell me what is Feminine
Não é no cabelo, no dengo ou no olhar	It's not in the hair, the charm, or the gaze
É ser menina por todo lugar	It's being a girl everywhere
Ó mãe, então me ilumina	Oh, mother, enlighten me
Me diz como é que termina	Tell me how it ends
Termina na hora de recomeçar	It ends when it's time to start over
Dobra uma esquina no mesmo lugar	Turn the corner at the same place

Costura o fio da vida só pra poder cortar	Sew life's thread just to cut it off
Depois se larga no mundo pra nunca mais voltar	Then lose yourself in the world to never return

Prepara e bota na mesa com todo paladar	Prepare and serve it with all flavor
Depois acende outro fogo e deixa tudo queimar	Then light another fire and let it all burn
Termina na hora de recomeçar	It ends when it's time to start over
Dobra uma esquina no mesmo lugar	Turn the corner at the same place
E esse mistério estará sempre lá	And this mystery will always be there
Feminina e menina no mesmo lugar	Feminine and girl at the same place.
Translation by L. Mandel

Betaparticle

AddThis for blogengine.net

Window Live Writer Error Fix: Server Error 0 Occurred - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Quick tip to get blogengine.net working on Godaddy

Some Video Avatars

Michael Cheval

Dump - a new tiny project

Who Killed Jessie? by Vaclav Vorlicek

Brewster McCloud by Robert Altman

Some random photos by Rene Magritte

Maxthon Super Search Addons

Windows Live Writer Portable

Senza Paura

Art by Patricia Villanuev

FLV Media Player for for BlogEngine.NET

Notes

Acknowledgments

Features

Notes

Installation

Using

Examples

Single FLV

Single MP3

XML Playlist

Silverlight Player

WMV (and WMA) Player for BlogEngine.NET

Acknowledgments

Features

Notes

Installation

Using

WMA Example

Lost Ana Mazzotti Album

Using Windows Live Writer with BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine.Net Gallery User Control - Version 1.0 - Autothumb

Brazilian Jukebox

Joyce's Feminina (odeon smofb 422862 cd) 1979