The Blog Manifesto

In college, a mind numbing number of moons ago, I both loved and hated English classes. Hated, because my conversational style of writing kept garnering C grades at best, but typically Ds. On the other hand, I loved writing, so I kept attending these classes even after I was done with the required ones. So here comes blogging and pretty everyone is doing it conversation style.

My passion is programming. Particularly, I am fascinated by the area of programmer productivity and performance. Being productive is a theme not only at work, but also in other areas of my life. I am sick that way, I guess. Waste of time goes against my nature. I'd rather pay 3 bucks for the toll road and save 10 minutes, rather than be mindlessly stuck in traffic.

So that is what I am going to write about, among other things: programming, tricks, speed-ups, .net/c# stuff, operating systems that piss me off, etc…

Many, who are close to me, think that I am an angry person. That's where Angry in Angry Hacker comes in. I don't think I am all that angry. Just don't piss me off and we'll be good.

Oh, and finally the reason why this blog came to be… I've been in the Microsoft world for as long as I remember (starting with QuickBasic 4.5) with occasional scenic side trips (Borland, Allaire). So I want to learn something different. And different these days means Linux/MySQL/etc… However, I do want to use my existing skills. So the way to learn something new without abandoning my skills is to do something using Mono.

Anyway, I've been following SubText open source blogging engine for a while. And I want to get involved. So the plan is as follows:

Port SubText 1.9.5 from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL. I am doing this completely against popular opinion. Mr. Hacked – the founder of SubText -- solicited opinions on whether it is important to have the application support other RDBMSes (such as MySQL). He got an overwhelming "Hell Effing NO". I'll do it anyway.
If that works, port SubText to Mono on Windows
And finally, make it work under Apache on Linux.

So, I'll keep a running log of the challenges encountered in my porting adventures.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:49 AM

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# re: The Blog Manifesto

It's not so much that Subtext users are against MySql support, it's just not a high priority for them.

I definitely want to see MySql support and am glad you're taking up the gauntlet, because I don't have the time to implement it.

Here's an idea. Rather than writing a MySql provider, what if you rewrote all our data access using Subsonic? Think about it.

The reason I suggest this is that our plan in the future is to use Subsonic to provide support for multiple databases. That way, every time Subsonic adds a new database it supports, we gain the benefit almost for free.

Not only that, Miguel (leader of the Subsonic project) de Icaza helped Rob Conery et all to make it work better on Mono (I'm not sure if that effort is complete).

At Mix 07, I told Miguel I hope to make Subtext run on Mono someday, but it might take a while due to our 3rd party dependencies.

Left by Haacked at 8/16/2007 8:02 AM

# re: The Blog Manifesto

I was thinking about Subsonic as a data strategy, but the only thing that gives me pause about this approach is the fact that I am very much unfamiliar with SubSonic. Still, that sounds like a very good approach, since relying on the Data Application Block (at least that's how it is in 1.9.5) will always yield a SQL Server centric solution.

But I think, first order of business is to convert all the sprocs to MySQL.

Left by Angry Hacker at 8/16/2007 4:18 PM

# re: The Blog Manifesto

Haacked, Subsonic is pretty quick and easy to learn and use. The webcasts that Rob does are great.

However, creating a MySqlObjectProvider is a fine choice too. :)

Left by Haacked at 8/16/2007 11:20 PM

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# re: The Blog Manifesto
It's not so much that Subtext users are against MySql support, it's just not a high priority for them.

I definitely want to see MySql support and am glad you're taking up the gauntlet, because I don't have the time to implement it.

Here's an idea. Rather than writing a MySql provider, what if you rewrote all our data access using Subsonic? Think about it.

The reason I suggest this is that our plan in the future is to use Subsonic to provide support for multiple databases. That way, every time Subsonic adds a new database it supports, we gain the benefit almost for free.

Not only that, Miguel (leader of the Subsonic project) de Icaza helped Rob Conery et all to make it work better on Mono (I'm not sure if that effort is complete).

At Mix 07, I told Miguel I hope to make Subtext run on Mono someday, but it might take a while due to our 3rd party dependencies.

Left by Haacked at 8/16/2007 8:02 AM
# re: The Blog Manifesto
I was thinking about Subsonic as a data strategy, but the only thing that gives me pause about this approach is the fact that I am very much unfamiliar with SubSonic. Still, that sounds like a very good approach, since relying on the Data Application Block (at least that's how it is in 1.9.5) will always yield a SQL Server centric solution.

But I think, first order of business is to convert all the sprocs to MySQL.

Left by Angry Hacker at 8/16/2007 4:18 PM
# re: The Blog Manifesto
Haacked, Subsonic is pretty quick and easy to learn and use. The webcasts that Rob does are great.

However, creating a MySqlObjectProvider is a fine choice too. :)

Left by Haacked at 8/16/2007 11:20 PM

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