Category: Blog Development
Got a calendar?
I'm trying to find a good (and hopefully free) ASP Calendar system I can adapt for my blog. I'm going to try and put something together that will let me filter by month/week/day by clicking appropriate links in the calendar. Looks like I'm going to be playing with lots of date manipulation.
If anyone has an idea of good solutions, feel free to leave a comment :)
Chicken and Noodles
Just got back from a weekend in Eugene with Kris' mom. Ate way too much chicken and noodles and had a hard time staying awake on the drive home, but as you can see, I made it.
When I could stay connected via their dialup for more than 5 minutes at a time, I made some good progress on the back-end admin of the blog. Got comment and post admin all done (except for categories) and got some ideas on other features. Once I get the feature list distilled to what I think is realistic, I'll be releasing it to the public for comment. Keep your eyes on here for more info :)
A change in management...
Well I spent the last few days converting my blog from Blogger to my own server (nothing against blogger, but I'm a bright guy, and I can do it on my own :). So it's now all database driven with ASP VBScript. I got to play with datashaping more (the blog headers, contents and the accompanying comments are all shaped) and got to play with some advanced SQL to get my archive weeks worked out. Everything is also served from this one page now, including the permalinks.
Along with the revision I added the ability to add comments to entries. They're reviewed by me before posting, but feel free to add. I get an email confirmation so I can check up on them constantly.
Now I just have to build a management interface for the whole thing and I'll be done. This was all built inside Dreamweaver MX, although a lot of it is hand coded. This little app might eventually turn into something redistributable, but it will require some more advanced error handling, and a new less "programmer-like" admin interface :).
If anyone is interested in an app like this (so I know if it's worth my time), let me know by adding a comment or dropping me an email.