Funkymule.com has changed...again

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 08:40 AM
by Coose

Well, I finally had enough of DotNetNuke.  It's an OK platform, but as a professional developer and architect, I would hardly say it's great.  What a bloated, cumbersome, difficult (and not pretty) platform to work with.

So, now I'm moving everything to Graffiti.  Here's my review:

Update: March 21st.

Yeah...Graffiti sucks.  It has a lot of potential...but there are a few reasons that I moved off of it after 2 days:

  • Development appears to have stopped.  They removed their roadmaps, and stopped posting to their own forums.
  • Templating engine required a lot of propietary macros and .view files...dot really .NET friendly.
  • UserControls were not easily implemented.  I was able to write a plugin to load any UserControl from an .ascx file, but due to the way it was hooked up, Postbacks and ASP.NET AJAX would not work.
  • Closed source.

There's a few more reasons that I moved off of it...but I don't want to trash the product.  It had great potential.

So anyway...I moved to BlogEngine.net.  I wrote a program to manually read the Graffiti SQL tables, and insert into the BlogEngine.net SQL tables. (I didn't want to use the default xml file provider).

Let's see how long till I change again!

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