I am really new to the whole WebBlog thing and I need some pointers.

Does anyone know of any free webblogs that are developer related being hosted on CommunityServer?

Second question, when I make a post to my blog, if I post XML or C# code and I want the data being posted to look like XML or C# that would be displayed in the IDE or like in an article on codeproject, what do I need to do to the XML or C#? Do I need to transform it to formatted HTML? If so, is there any freeware that would do that for me?

Devildog74 wrote:

I am really new to the whole WebBlog thing and I need some pointers.

Does anyone know of any free webblogs that are developer related being hosted on CommunityServer?

CommunityServer isn't that free, so most of the blog sites aren't free nowadays, at least not the ones for .NET: either you've to be a .net rockstar, or you've to set it up yourself. I'd go for a blogspot or blogger blog.

Second question, when I make a post to my blog, if I post XML or C# code and I want the data being posted to look like XML or C# that would be displayed in the IDE or like in an article on codeproject, what do I need to do to the XML or C#? Do I need to transform it to formatted HTML? If so, is there any freeware that would do that for me?

There's an add-in available which copies code to the clipboard in HTML. It's a macro actually (free). Forgot the name, but it's pretty slick. Google should give it to you without a problem

Devildog74 wrote:

I am really new to the whole WebBlog thing and I need some pointers.

Does anyone know of any free webblogs that are developer related being hosted on CommunityServer?

Not sure what you mean by "free", but one of my favorites, The Shade Tree Developer is hosted on Community Server. Personally, I like SubText which is a branch from the original .TEXT tree pre-Community Server. It's not so...community-oriented.

Second question, when I make a post to my blog, if I post XML or C# code and I want the data being posted to look like XML or C# that would be displayed in the IDE or like in an article on codeproject, what do I need to do to the XML or C#? Do I need to transform it to formatted HTML? If so, is there any freeware that would do that for me?

Always check Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tools List, : CopySourceAsHTML

Jeff

There is also DotNetNuke and its core blog module, both open source. The blog works fine, and you can use either FreeTextBox or FCKEditor for html editing.

Now, I have had my share of "Who comes up with a name like 'llblgen'", but... FCKEditor?

(btw, I wouldn't have thought about DNN, but it's indeed a good suggestion. Dottext doesn't have spam protection (if I'm not mistaken), and the rest is not .NET based. )