Just before my vacation to Peru i noticed that i received a lot of spam in my comments on my blog. i was running DotNetBlogEngine 1.4.5 and the spamfilter seemed to be broken. I didn't have time to fix it before my vacation so i disabled comments for a while. now that I'm back I upgraded to 1.6.1 which has build in functionality for Askismet and Recaptcha.
because I had so many spam comments I had to remove all of them so sorry for everyone who posted real comments because they are also gone now.
BlogEngine.Net 1.6.1 (download from codeplex) feels like its a lot more mature then the 1.4.5 version I had before. Lets see how well it will go in the future.
Because of the switch I had to change the theme because the old one didn't work that well with this new version so i downloaded a new theme from http://www.blogenginetheme.com/ and changed a bit to my liking. When i have time i'll change it a bit more.
If you are still using an old version of BlogEngine.Net I would advise you to upgrade to 1.6.1 because it's looking pretty good and upgrading was easy. (costed me 2 hours including deleting of spam 
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Enjoy my new weblog
Geert van der Cruijsen
4 days ago Blogengine.net 1.4.5 was released. A good time for me to upgrade to the newest version since i wanted to split my weblog up to a part to store my messages about my private life and my posts about software development.
Upgrading to 1.4.5 was pretty easy except 1 error i ran into. I'm using blogengine.net together with mysql since my provider doesn't have mssql and I didn't really like the xml based blogging. After setting everything up i kept on running into System.Threading.SemaphoreFullExceptions. After posting this on the Blogengine.net codeplex site some people mentioned this was a bug in the mysql.data.dll version 5.1.6 and if you upgrade to 5.2.2 everything should work fine again. So i did and you can see the results now.
I've also upgraded the layout of my weblog and added a http://life.vdcruijsen.net section to store my weblog about my life when I'm not developing software but am going out on vacation, trips or have something else to blog about.
Tnx to the Blogengine.net team for this great piece of software!
Geert van der Cruijsen
Hi everyone,
Welcome to my first blog. The reason I’m starting to blog is that I’ve recently started working for Avanade and I’m coming across a lot of new things in the Microsoft world and i would like to share those things with you.
I’m trying to keep up with all the new things Microsoft is throwing at us and I’ll post some experiences when I try them out.
About myself: my name is Geert van der Cruijsen and me and my girlfriend live together in Uden, The Netherlands. I started to work for Avanade the first of September this year and I’m going to work on my MCPD-EA certification this year. From the Microsoft technology my experience lies in SharePoint 2007, C#, asp.net and Webservices.
Thanks for reading my first post and enjoy!