Thoughts from the mountains

I've always wanted to use ColdFISH as a code syntax highlighter in Mango Blog after viewing other blogs running on BlogCFC. When I noticed Jason Delmore's post announcing ColdFISH 3.1 I inquired about a Mango Blog plugin. With some help from Jason, I was able to put together my first Mango Blog plugin, ColdFISH for Mango Blog.

I recently set up url rewriting for Mango Blog on both IIS 7.5 and Apache 2.2. I followed the excellent guide by Adam Tuttle, but experienced a few issues along the way, so I decided to add a post that may prove helpful to someone else down the road.

While upgrading my Mango blog installations this evening to the new 1.5 version I ran into a minor stumbling block. The first installation ran perfectly from the administrator, but the other instance would not show me the option to upgrade to the 1.5 version. After scratching my chin for a few minutes, I remembered that the default administrator role does not have "manage system" permissions by default. After adding enabling the missing permission I was able to install the updates, which I had a few to do.

I've wanted to setup a blog to store recipes to share with friends and family for a long time and recently found the motivation to get it done. I wanted a light color theme for this blog, so I ported the Fresh Pick theme from styleshout.com over to Mango. If anyone wants to use the theme with their Mango Blog it can be downloaded from my projects page or here.

I have updated my Mango blog theme to version 1.3 this evening after adding pod support. This adds the ability to easily change the content available in the right side column and the footer. If you would like to try out the theme or update an older version, head on over to my project page to download the new version.