Oxite: A good example after all? | The Coffeehouse

dpratt71

I just posted this over at dzone.com. What do you think?

VB Man
Year of the Linux MCE.

I think shameless plugs are bad.

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to VB Man

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 11:10 AM

How is one meant to plug themselves then?

VB Man
Year of the Linux MCE.

In reply to stevo_

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 11:33 AM

By linking directly to his or her blog. dpratt71 linked to 'dzone' ; digg for developers.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

In reply to stevo_

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 11:33 AM

How is one meant to plug themselves? Shamefully, of course. Smiley

Seriously, though, if you've written a blog post and want to bring it over here, summarize the main points in the forum message and let a conversation develop here. That's what forums are for - we aren't digg. If you just want to drive traffic to your blog, people are going to get annoyed.

dpratt71

In reply to Yggdrasil

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 12:00 PM

Fair enough.

ZippyV
Fired Up

If you read the blog post that you bookmarked you can see that there are some issues that need to be fixed.

http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/some-thoughts-on-oxite/

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to ZippyV

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 12:26 PM

we could discuss this at length, considering we (the C9 team) are the ones who built it ... suffice it say, we made some architectural mistakes that are not inline with the current best practices around MVC... but some of those issues have been fixed, progress has been made on others and we will do more work in the new year. In the meantime, it is a pretty sweet blog engine compared to everything I've run before.

joechung

In reply to Duncanma

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 8:54 PM

I like Oxite, because it's open source and actually exists, unlike those other "superior" ASP.NET MVC-based blogging engines that only exist in the imaginations of those people who like to criticize Oxite and call it all sorts of names. Good job, guys.

figuerres
???

In reply to joechung

#Dec 21st, 2008 @ 5:45 PM

it's funny I don't know how many times I have looked at code I did and wish I could go back and do it over.
when it's an internal app that works no one ever sees the ugly parts... but you know them.
but when you publish stuff... then all kinds of things get seen....
but then how many of the critics will sit down and help fix it??? not many most of the time.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to Duncanma

#Dec 20th, 2008 @ 8:54 PM

Don't take the critique to personal. I think Oxite is a nice start and you guys are improving it - I'm sure. Smiley

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to littleguru

#Dec 22nd, 2008 @ 4:04 PM

Thanks folks, appreciate the positive comments. We aren't stopping work on it, so I'm sure you'll see more things about it in the future.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to Duncanma

#Dec 22nd, 2008 @ 11:35 PM

So are you guys considering using a future version of Oxite to replace evnet?

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to Bas

#Dec 23rd, 2008 @ 1:09 AM

Not really... we'd like to use the new MVC features for EvNet because of the better control it gives us over markup, but there is a huge difference in features between Oxite and EvNet, and I don't know if we'd want to spend the time to reimplement things that are already done. As we use it on smaller sites, like visitmix.com, we might slowly add enough features to Oxite to make it closer to what we would need for C9...