Radio is gone!- February 17, 2003 Note This is the last post to my old RSS feed or Radio site. Wahoo! BlogX is now my primary software. I think this is good enough. You can get to the old homepage here, and all the comments, etc, are still live there - however I won't be adding new entries. My new RSS feed is here. I just tried (for the first time) using my WinForms front end across the internet. Queries are a bit slow. Running off local host is almost instantaneous, so I have to imagine that this is due to network issues. I'll.http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/16.html#a205 BlogX 1.0.0001.0003- February 16, 2003 Lots of changes here... Added a CRUD web service front end and a query web service front end. There are now 7 projects in the sources: BlogCmd - command line radio to blogx converter BlogXRuntime - data model, shared by all BlogXServiceProxy - hand tweaked web service proxy WeblogX - ASP.NET front end & web services WinBlogX - WinForms front end (talks to web services) WinBlogXControls - Shared controls between WinBlogX and WoodBlog WoodBlog - "Legacy" WinForms front end WoodBlog was..http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/16.html#a204 License for BlogX- February 15, 2003 Dare asked a good question in the comments below. What is the license for BlogX I put a copyright at the top of each file, but I didn't think about enough of what I really want here. I guess I'm looking for a license that provides the following: Free (no charge) use by anyone with or without modification (free) Anyone using the source or binaries I provide must hold me harmless (no warranties) Any product that uses the source or binaries can use any license they wish (no viral...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/15.html#a203 RSS 2.0 as my native format...- February 15, 2003 Gary makes an interesting point... at a minimum why don't I use RSS 2.0 as the native XML format for my blogging tool... hmm... At this point i'm convinced that the "per-day" or "per-entry" debate is largely moot... either way I'll end up with a cache for the other direction...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/15.html#a202 BlogX source code- February 15, 2003 I'm not happy with the source, it's mostly slapped together on various late nights, but I figure there is nothing like a little peer review to clean your act you. You can download the source and binaries (one zip). There are no instructions, almost no comments, no support, and no warrenties on any of this - it works on my machine, and that's all I can say :) Please post feedback in the comments for this, or, of course, on your blog! :)http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/15.html#a201 BlogX 1.0.0001.0002- February 15, 2003 More web frontend work... referrers are now being tracked. I just write out the UrlReferrer and Url from the request when pages are hit. This seems like the wrong model... is there a better way to track referrers Also did some minor HTML cleanup (more divs, etc.) and also added support for navigation links like Radio has.http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/15.html#a200 BlogX data...- February 15, 2003 One of the designs that I'm not happy with is how i'm handling file path resolving. Right now I've got a static (re: global) delegate that is called to resolve files. This allows me to map this to a Server.MapPath in the web case, and a Path.Combine on the client. The problem is that the "map" ends up being per app domain - which works great for ASP.NET, but sucks for WinForms... At this point I'm not going to rewrite it, but I'm just not happy with the design. Note I've created a BlogX...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/15.html#a199 Better HTML- February 14, 2003 Thanks to Jorge I got my HTML for BlogX better for accessibility... before I was using spans with classes on them for everything... now I'm using H1...H7 for headings... Also, I switched the calendar navigation from being a viewstate postback to links with a querystring... better bookmark-ability and navigtion expierence... also F5 isn't broken anymore...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/14.html#a198 Comment view fixes- February 14, 2003 Fixed a minor issue with comment view (wasn't showing the comment author)... I guess the last things that is preventing me from switching over is some utility for bi-directional synchronization... i want to be able to edit on the client or server and have both get updated... that seems like it's going to be a bit tricky...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/13.html#a197 Comments for BlogX- February 14, 2003 Added comment support to the web frontend for BlogX... wahoo!http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/13.html#a196 |