Orion - A Blog Engine

Posted by Shiv Kumar on 13th January, 2011 Senior Software Engineer, Software Architect

VA USA

Tagged With: Html 5 Performance Quartz for ASP.NET

Licensing:MIT License

Orion is a high performance blogging engine written using the Quartz for ASP.NET framework. This blog is now powered by the Orion engine, so what you see by way of features, function and speed (responsiveness) is what you get with the Orion engine and of course the Quartz for ASP.NET framework.

I was initially using WordPress for my blog (this blog) and eventually just got tired of having to deal with some of the nuances of WordPress and more specifically the theme I was using. However I had gotten used to using Windows Live Writer to write my posts and so the first thing I did, even before starting the Orion project was to implement and have a functional MetaWeblog API implementation that I could use in Orion.

I’ve posted source code for the Orion Project (as is). This is a VS.NET 2010 solution that also requires (references) the Quartz engine project (and not just the assemblies). If you are not too comfortable with VS.NET solutions and/or are not able to recover from problems such as missing projects due to missing paths etc. this download may not be for you. The only part I expect people might have trouble with is that this solution includes the Quartz project rather than referencing the assemblies and so the solution will not find the Quartz project when you first open it.

Orion VS.NET 2010 Solution

Download the Quartz for ASP.NET project and source code for the link provided on that project’s page.

Comments

Tom Stacy 12th April, 2011

Shiv,

I've been playing around with Quartz off and on for a couple of weeks and I am really impressed. I also came across this post for Orion, but despite the title there doesn't seem to be a downloadable project.

I would love to take a look at what you've done with Orion. Perhaps I can send some ideas and/or code back your way.

Do you have a project available?

Thanks,

Tom Stacy

Shiv Kumar 12th April, 2011

Tom,

Glad you like what you see about the Quartz framework.

The Orion project is not quite ready for "prime time" as it were (and not complete either) but ofcourse there is a project since what you see on this site is a result of that.

I'll send you the project (it's a VS.2010 .NET 4.0 project)

Axel Casauran 24th August, 2011

any updates for the downloadable project? -___-

Shiv Kumar 24th August, 2011

Hi Axel, I've updated the post to include a link for downloading the VS.NET 2010 solution and source code. You will also need ot download the project and source code for the Quartz framework

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