I am proud to announce the release of Day Dreamin', a new skin for Subtext. Okay, so it's not exactly the most exhilarating news of the day, but I think it's a pretty sweet little skin. Plus, I'm hoping to stir up some interest in the Subtext Skins Gallery. Phil announced the gallery almost six months ago yet at the time of this writing there are only five user submitted skins (including the new Day Dreamin' skin). I know that there are a lot of people using custom skins in their Subtext installation, but I'm not sure how many of...

This rant started as a comment to Jeff 'Coding Horror' Atwood's recent posted entitled "What's In a Version Number, Anyway?" In his post Jeff take a look at some of the What, Why, and How software gets its version numbers and how those influence the product's name. The topic is particularly interesting to me as not too long ago Phil and I were discussing a possible change in the naming scheme used for Subtext. Anyone who has been following Subtext development (and releases) lately has probably noticed the flurry of version numbers that are leaking into the product...

Subtext v1.9.4 "Windward" officially dropped this past Sunday, and pretty quickly several users and developers pointed out that the new Sitemap implementation was some-what busted. It's never good when a new feature is broken straight out of the box. I take full blame for the foul-up. I wasn't aware of Google's apparent requirement that the Sitemap file live as close to the root of the site as possible. So when I tried to make the HttpHandler be more specific I accidentally broke the implementations in Google's eyes. The Fix To fix my screw-up, I had to change the Regular Expression that...

UPDATE: A fix is now available for the Sitemap issue that many users reported after the original release. Check out the notes here. Sorry it took so long to get here - but I'm happy to finally announce that the next version of everyone's favorite blog platform is ready to... err... launch! Below are the official release notes for Subtext 1.9.4 "Windward" Edition. For those keeping track, the official version number for this release is v1.9.4.78, but who's really counting. Bug Fixes 1583948 - Recent Comments should strip comments along with HTML 1585529 - sidebar disappears after config save ...

UPDATE: It appears that the .zip file I posted earlier was actually busted - I guess that's what I get for being lazy and not testing the parameterized version before putting it out there. Anyhow, Phil emailed me a version that actually works as advertised. I've updated the link at the bottom of this post, so grab the updated version from there. Search and replace is a common (and most useful) feature that is present in even the most basic of text editors. Some of the more powerful text editors (I like notepad++) even allow you to use Regular...