Next tool - a blogging application

Before I start my rant I should say that .Text is pretty decent web app.; it's seems way more complex than it needs to be and it's very difficult to install but there's a lot of great implementation code in there. Last week while unsuccessfully trying to get it installed and create some initial users I decided that, for my next application I'm going to build a blogging app.  Much of the API design and feature-set is done and I'm currently working through the technical architecture.

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  • You know, since .TEXT has officially become part of Community Server, it has really been sad, terrible. It is a great product, if only we (the community) could keep working on it or start a replacement. ;)



    If you want your blogging tool to succeed, don't keep it to yourself, invite others to share ideas and implementation code that may be better than one person could pull off.



    So, going OpenSource? I think that was .TEXT's down fall in the end; not going OpenSource that is.

  • I just tried the new beta of communityserver and am impressed with it - I really would give it a try before coding your own. As a trial I have set it up for a new community (see link above) and had one minor issue setting up, had two blogs working right away and also forums and galleries which I dont really need as yet. Going to be a bugger to restyle but there has to be some work in it somewhere ;O)



    You dont get the source code yet while it is in beta but seems very extendable and nicely thought out. Check out the cs.org forum to see how people are customising it - neat :O)

  • Hey Goth... yes, I know that CS is going to be cool - I've read all about it. Mind you, your own testimony seems to back up my feeling that this software is probably much more complex than what is needed for simple folks like me to manage my ramblings:



    GOTH >> and had one minor issue setting up



    GOTH >> and also forums and galleries which I dont really need as yet



    GOTH >> Going to be a bugger to restyle



    GOTH >> You dont get the source code yet





    :-)

  • Great idea... I hope to see news about your project soon.

  • I totally agree with Adam. Open source is the way forward. That way, people from a wider background can help in creating the application. If you needed to do some work on the UI, you could ask for help and maybe get a top UI developer. If you needed some work in the db, you wouldnt have to rely on your in-house DBA who may not have the right experience.



    One thing I have been looking at is building an open source platform where people can collaborate to create/manage a project. Think SourceSafe on the web with an additional user management layer on top.

  • Good to hear. I put together a simple blogging engine for Classic ASP a while ago and it wasn't too bad - keeping it simple definitely helped. I agree that .TEXT may be a bit too clever for its own good.



    I think a lot of weblogs.asp.net folks feel a bit trapped - jump ship to your own blog and lose the weblogs.asp.net traffic, or deal with the old version of .TEXT that hasn't seen an update for a long, long time. Do you intend to cross-post or move?

  • I'll probably move altogether I think once I have it completed, although I may cross post for the exposure. Not sure. One thing I am sure about is that I'll be writing some sort of migration tool to migrate from my Weblogs blog to my new app.



  • Nice to have this site

  • 359424.. I like it :)

  • 359424.. Outstanding :)

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