Minima Blog Engine

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Project Description
Minima is the blog engine used to power NetFXHarmonics.com and is used by Jampad Technology, Inc. in .NET training.

The purpose of Minima is to provide a functional example of real-world applications of .NET technologies. Therefore, Minima is continually fully re-architected, re-designed, and re-structured on a regular basis to demonstrate the most of up-to-date technologies, paradigms, and best-practices.

NetFXHarmonics Blog

Minima 3.0 Announcement and Overview
http://www.netfxharmonics.com/2008/05/Minima-30-Released

As a Training Tool

Minima is primarily (though not exclusively) a training tool for introductory, intermediate, and expert-level .NET.

Minima 2.0 could be used as a training tool for ASP.NET, CSS theming, proper use of global.asax, integrating with Windows Live Writer, framework design guidelines, HttpModules, HttpHandlers, HttpHandlerFactories, LINQ, type organization, proper-SQL Server table design and naming scheme, XML serialization, and XML-RPC.NET usage.

Minima 3.0 can be used as a training tool for the same concepts and technologies as Minima 2.0 as well as SOA principles, custom WCF service host factories, custom WCF behaviors, WCF username authentication, custom WCF declarative operation-level security, WCF exception shielding and fault management, custom WCF message header usage, WCF type organization, WCF-LINQ DTO transformation, enhanced WCF clients, using WCF sessions for Captcha verification, SQL Server 2005 schema security, XmlWriter usage, ASP.NET programmatic user control usage, custom configuration sections, WCF JavaScript clients, ASP.NET control JavaScript registration, JavaScript namespaces, WCF JSON services, WCF RSS services, ASP.NET templated databinding, and ASP.NET control componentization.

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As a Training Tool

UPDATED RELEASE: Minima 3.0 - Built on WCF 3.5 and LINQ (May 11, 2008)

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This is the May 2008 (version 3.0) release of Minima and is built on WCF 3.5, LINQ, and many other .NET 3.5 technologies.

The entire back-end of Minima has been redesigned following SOA principles and has been implemented in WCF with Minima's security model also moved to WCF. The entire web portion of Minima has also been fully redesigned as a set of extensible ASP.NET controls to create _a new paradigm in blog engines_. Please see the "As a Training Tool" section for more information.

!!! As a Training Tool

Minima is *primarily* (though not exclusively) a training tool for introductory, intermediate, and expert-level .NET.

Minima 2.0 could be used as a training tool for ASP.NET, CSS theming, proper use of global.asax, integrating with Windows Live Writer, framework design guidelines, HttpModules, HttpHandlers, HttpHandlerFactories, LINQ, type organization, proper-SQL Server table design and naming scheme, XML serialization, and XML-RPC.NET usage.

+Minima 3.0+ can be used as a training tool for the same concepts and technologies as Minima 2.0 as well as *SOA principles, custom WCF service host factories, custom WCF behaviors, WCF username authentication, custom WCF declarative operation-level security, WCF exception shielding and fault management, custom WCF message header usage, WCF type organization, WCF-LINQ DTO transformation, enhanced WCF clients, using WCF sessions for Captcha verification, SQL Server 2005 schema security, XmlWriter usage, ASP.NET programmatic user control usage, custom configuration sections, WCF JavaScript clients, ASP.NET control JavaScript registration, JavaScript namespaces, WCF JSON services, WCF RSS services, ASP.NET templated databinding, and ASP.NET control componentization.*

!!! Setup

1) Download and put somewhere (duh!)
2) Attach database and setup security. See Setup.sql for more information -- most of this should be optional.
2) If using IIS, then you need to setup a wildcard mapping to ASP.NET. See [url:http://www.netfxharmonics.com/2007/03/The-Universal-HttpHandlerFactory-Technique.aspx].
3) Change web.config to point to database and setup your e-mail and SMTP server for comment and error notifications. You will want to change your the materials and images path too.
4) Change rsd.xml to point to http://your_web_site/xml-rpc/
5) Reference assemblies from Assembly folder as required
6) Change BlogPrimaryUrl in the Blog table to your web site root (or else you will always get forwarded to my blog; you may disable this by changing the ForceSpecifiedPath configuration option in web.config)
7) Setup server (name:"ServerSide") and client (name:"ClientSide") WCF secure certificates. See [url:http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-certificate-based-authentication-and-protection-with-windows-communication-foundation-wcf/].

!!! DevServer Configuration

If you are using [url:NetFXHarmonics DevServer|http://www.codeplex.com/DevServer] for ASP.NET development (_highly recommended_), then you may opt to use the following configuration fragment with +Minima 3.0+.

{{
<jampad.devServer>
<startupProfiles activeProfile="Minima">
<profile name="Minima">
<server key="MinimaWebsite" />
<server key="MinimaService" />
</profile>
</startupProfiles>
<servers>
<server key="MinimaWebsite" name="MinimaWS" port="7001"
virtualPath="/" physicalPath="C:\CodePlex\Minima\Website">
<binding address="loopback" />
<requestTracing enabled="false" enableVerboseTypeTracing="false" enableFaviconTracing="false" />
</server>
<server key="MinimaService" name="MinimaSVC" port="7003"
virtualPath="/" physicalPath="C:\CodePlex\Minima\Service">
<binding address="loopback" />
<requestTracing enabled="false" enableVerboseTypeTracing="false" enableFaviconTracing="false" />
</server>
</servers>
</jampad.devServer>
}}

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