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I've lost mine, and am trying to find it again. I loved when I was blogging regularly, and being an active part of a thriving community. Over the last few years, that has slipped away from me. I haven't made a blog post in ages, and don't feel like I'm much a part of any community at all.
Mango wasn't accounting for the excerpt in the MT API, so I've added hooks for that. The TwitterPost plugin was sending the wrong URL to Twitter, so I've de-activated it, reactivated it, and reloaded my configuration to find out if it will post correctly. This is that test :)
This is just a test from MarsEdit to make sure that the Excerpt actually posts into Mango.
I just upgraded the old server to ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise... yum...
This is just s test post to see if my blog is actually usable in Pocket IE. So far so good.
That's right, I have another title up on Lynda.com today, Dynamic Development Using ASP and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Well today I gave my one week notice at the day job. Starting on the 1st of June, I'm a free man. I'll be working for them on a contractor basis, but I'll no longer be there 8 hours a day, free to concentrate on my own work.
Just got done with another few days in the recording booth at Lynda.com recording Dreamweaver MX 2004 Databases with ASP (talk about a long title). Hopefully it should be hitting the online movie library in a few weeks :) (make me look good now editors...)
That's right, you can now reach this wonderful blog (full of powerful insight on so very many meaningful and important things) by going to DansShorts.com. aaaaaahhh... my own vanity domain... almost as good as a vanity license plate.
Yes, I am still alive, but I've become somewhat of a social butterfly it seems, plus publishers don't think authors have lives :) (can you say major deadline over 4th of July weekend? I can...)
I've added RFC compatible pubDates to all my posts in the RSS feed. I've also got code wrapped up for converting server times to the desired time zone of the poster, I just need to integrate it into the actual blog app and do some more testing. One more feature halfway done :)
Jay has got the Blog-o-matic installed and running (quite quickly too I might add). I'm going to have to harass him for the details on what went right/wrong, considering there is absotively posolutely zero documentation at this point, and several features still left to finish.
Add selection for GMT - hours to blog app :)
I'm working on quite a few features on the blog, but what do you, the people of the internet, feel a blog really needs? What would make you go "Honey?!?! Can you get the checkbook?". Inquiring minds want to know...
I finally got my act together and finished up the RSS feed for the blog. Thanks to Joel for pointing out that I didn't set my content type for the .asp page, so IE wasn't rendering it as XML.
I finally got around to fixing my search highlighting. It was wrapping phrases inside HTML tags (such as links) with the highlighting tags, breaking links and causing general mayhem. All fixed now though, only phrases outside of a tag are highlighted, even though phrases inside tags are searched.
Just wanted to catch people up, since I've had some inquiries regarding the blog development. Things are moving slow :). I haven't made any significant additions to the application since before Thanksgiving, as I've been working on other project, such as a Dynamic Image Gallery that will allow you to display galleries of images by just uploading files. You can see pictures of my bar at the demo page.
For those of you that have been watching the development of my blog, I just wanted to let you know it's on hold for the moment. I have quite a few book deadlines, and those come first. So once the book is complete I'll be able to hit this again, and will probably be a bit more enthused with it.
I made the style changer ASP driven, so no more funky flashing :~)
In the process of putting together my blog, I've come up with quite a few functions for manipulating dates. This includes find the start and end of a week that contains a particular date (for the archives and such) as well as quiet a few others.
I added a bit more functionality to the calendar, disabling the forward and next links if you've reached the end of the posts. This prevents someone from going all to the way to Jan 2003 or back to Jan 2001 if there in fact, aren't any posts there.
You can now filter posts by Category on the blog. You can have any number of categories, a post can be assigned to multiple categories, and you can completely disable a category (this doesn't disable the posts, but only keeps the category from showing up in the nav).
Here are some screenshots of the admin area of the site.
I found a freebie calendar script on ASP101 that didn't have any database connectivity, and hacked it up to add my own. I was having issues with any solution that already had a database attached, as their db schema was different than what I was using. Ended up being easier to add my own hooks in there.
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.
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.
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.