We have more than one visionary person in our company
Pelle May 29th
For those of you fluent in Danish: The online Danish news paper ComON - a site related only to IT matters - has an article about our Lead developer Mads Kristensen.
The article is about Mads’ spare time project called BlogEngine.NET which is a open source blog engine written in dotNET.
Dependent on who you ask in TraceWorks the project either originates from Little Helper, from being annoyed about the supremacy of WordPress or simply the lack of useful blog engines for the dotNET platform.
If you want to read more about it, you can dig into the project web site.
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That’s great stuff, Mads. I love the open source way of collaborating = maximum innovation and maximum speed (right?).
Let me know if I can help in any way.
What about doing to “Littlehelper” what Mads&Co. did to Blogengine? It was always the plan to release it for free distribution and so on … Anyone?
We could move LittleHelper to the BlogEngine core and then just change the menu system, so it’s no longer chronological.
Then LittleHelper would gain all the stuff already developed and tested from BlogEngine.
Idea?
Sounds like a great idea.
How about themes - would it be possible to use the current design in BlogEngine?
Yes it would. Themes are completely decoupled from the rest of the system, so you can have any design you want.
But do we want to publish our own TRW-initiated open source project ..?
It was always the plan to do so with “Little Helper” - but no one ever did. If so, the focus should be to develop an “online help tool for web apps” … in the long run this might become a pretty specialized niche compared to BlogEngine; I know we had a lot of meetings about what tool to use / or to develop it internally > meaning other software companies might face the same “problems” / “issues” etc.
Well, if people are not up to it then let’s go with BlogEngine; right now “Little Helper” is just a small version of BlogEngine and it would be cool to try it out - no doubt.
People?