NVelocity[1] is a .NET port of the Velocity open source template engine. I have used NVelocity quite a few times over the last couple of years.

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The download link below contains the binary and source for two Graffiti plugins.

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Graffiti 1.0 is due to be released today (February 18th, 2008). While doing some early morning web surfing I came across a great line by Guy Kawasaki, "Don't Let the Bozos Grind You Down".

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I am really excited to announce the release of Graffiti Beta 2.

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Charles Stricklin wrote a post called, "Graffiti disses WordPress" because of an adSense campaign run by Telligent.

However, Charles believes this is really about open source vs. commercial software.

What they seem to be saying, without coming out and just saying it, is, “Open Source Software = bad, proprietary = good.” And that’s a valid subject open to debate, but don’t start slinging mud and then skirt the issue.

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Jason Burns wrote an interesting post, "What does Wordpress have in common with Microsoft Windows? Marketshare…"

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Graffiti Beta 1 was released last Wednesday. So far, the response has been awesome. There have been some minor bugs, but most have already been resolved. We are getting ready to add couple of additional features and looking to ship V1 very soon. The main Graffiti site and blog should be launched soon, but in the mean time, I wanted to point out what some others are saying (and doing) with beta 1.

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Rob covered the reasons we chose Microsoft Access as one of our two supported databases for the first beta release of Graffiti.

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Blog Herald has an interesting post, " Have Trackbacks Become Too Spammy To Be Worthwhile? " You may have also discovered a surge in trackback spam recently as autoblogging software is being used by more and more spammers to reach out and cull RSS feeds. This phenomenon has led to many disabling trackbacks...

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I have a new theory on development, if you cannot build an interesting working version of an application in less than 1000 lines of code, you are likely over complicating things.

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Graffiti is coming along nicely and we are getting very close to a beta. Actually from a code/feature perspective we are beta ready. We just need to flush out some more of the documentation and all those little things that go along with releasing a product.

Just to wet your pallet a little more, here is a quick video/demo Rob put together a little while ago.

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James Avery wrote a post, "Modals or No more popups" inquiring about modal solutions. I really do not have an opinion on the different options :), but his post reminded me of a rule set for myself while working on Graffiti: Never use Popups unless they are absolutely positively needed.

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Have you ever started to make edits to a post, get side tracked and not remember what you just changed? Or have you ever tried to collaborate with a traditional web based WYSIWYG editor and wanted to easily see what is different? What's changed?

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Simpable is the second site to go live on Graffiti CMS. We will soon be publishing the official Graffiti site, but until then, I am going to publish a couple of posts here about what's going on with this new project. My goal in the future is to talk more about things like the lessons learned in developing Community Server which have been applied to Graffiti, but for now, it will be mostly product related.

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