Xml Serialization- February 14, 2003 Hmm... I tried to have BlogX save everything as UTC, however for some reason Xml Serialization seems to have no way to serialize as UTC, so I ended up losing 8 hours between serialize and deserialize... anyone have any thoughts here If not I'll ask someone at work tomorrow...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/13.html#a195 BlogX update- February 14, 2003 Restructured the UI to use a lot more user controls (such as a single control for viewing an entry) and also fixed the CSS for floating the right pane (thanks!). Also added basic editing (requires write access for the ASP.NET account on the server to the file system). You can see my first entry that I did with the web front end here. I tried to follow Michael's advice for using WSYSIWIG HTML editing, but I couldn't get the HTML posted back to the server, so the editing is done via raw HTML. Of..http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/13.html#a194 ok... so i'm not a web designer...- February 13, 2003 ... but I've got BlogX look a bit nicer... and it's all done with CSS, no tables! :) Don't know how it looks in anything but IE...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/12.html#a193 BlogX- February 13, 2003 I'm still using the unpopular day-per-file data model, however I've added web support for categories, permalinks, and history browsing. Here is the latest. Next steps... Category view in winforms Comments in webforms Web UI that doesn't look like crap :)http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/12.html#a192 Scalable success- February 13, 2003 I find it humorous that Dare thinks that our APIs are too "RAD". We continually get feedback that our APIs aren't easy enough. I think that having large "cliffs" between APIs (i.e. having a distinct expert vs. RAD API) is the wrong design. The problem here is that developers are never just a RAD or expert developer. Personally I like to use RAD tools and APIs at the start of a project, then dig into the expert APIs as I need them. The problem is that when you have two completely...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/12.html#a191 Syndirella likes it!- February 12, 2003 Syndirella can read my RSS feed without errors... wahoo! In addition I got comment adding working in the winform front end. Next steps: Browsing to more than just today in the web viewer Comments in the web viewer Permalinks Category browsing in both viewers I'm going to try and not make any progress on this for the rest of the week... I need more sleep... and I've got to start working on work projects at night instead of blog software :) Work life bal... nevermind.http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/11.html#a190 Debugging, what a concept- February 12, 2003 Brian got me hooked up with the right error messages and I got my BlogX web view working... still fairly limited. For some reason the RSS feed is coming off as texthtml, even though I do: Response.Clear();Response.ContentType = "textxml"; In my Page_Load... this works on my local machine and when hitting the machine with localhost at the site... however when we hit it from the machine name it reports texthtml... hmm...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/11.html#a189 BlogX Scalability- February 12, 2003 rchildress talks about scalability of xml vs. dbms, etc... just as an example, my test data for BlogX was some dummy data with 24 months of data, 28 days per month, 17 entries per day, average of 8 comments per day... overall it was several hundred megs of data. The system was still fast in the winforms front end...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/11.html#a188 Melissa Joan Hart- February 12, 2003 I have a friend that digs MJH... watching an episode of "That 70s Show" with her as a guest... he would be in heaven...http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/11.html#a187 House 3.0- February 12, 2003 All contingencies have been dropped! Wahoo! The buyer of my house is happy (well, they signed didn't they <G>) and I'm happy (same goes) with the seller's offer to me. Basically at this point the final hurtles are pure financing (getting the bank to give all parties enough cash) and then time.http://www.simplegeek.com/2003/02/11.html#a186 |