http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Custom version of SubText http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment20http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment20Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:43:51 GMTJust use wordpress and use your time to handle the more complex problems in nhib/profiler/ravendb. The tool for the job. Why make a hammer, when you can use the free one laying next to you? :-) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment19http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment19Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:49:57 GMTOren, Knowing of how you work, I would suggest an email interface (however that can be made to work). I know that's one thing you keep on top of. Just make sure that you can interact with it very simply. Think command line, but implemented through email conversations with a bot you wrote. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment18http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment18Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:33:14 GMTAyende, have you considered just making a feature request and sending a patch instead of forking Subtext's source code? I believe that's how it's usually done in open source projects. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment17http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment17Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:53:28 GMTAll I can say is quit being .NET for a minute and consider wordpress. Even PHP can be well engineered. ;) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment16http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment16Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:44:56 GMTAutomatic posts, interesting. All you need now is pre-defined automatic replies to comments based on likely replies. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment15http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment15Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:06:39 GMTIs Subtext open source? I'd love to get a hold of the code, and take a shot at adding this http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment14http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment14Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:36:04 GMTSimone, The ability to post without a date, will queue things in the future posts. The ability to post with a date, will move things in the future posts queue up. The ability to note when a post was posted, and when it is published. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment13http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment13Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:19:34 GMTSorry for you, Ayende! The bad thing is that I need one myself. And it could well have this feature you're talking about. But I have some needs on my own: A twitter (140char) and FB (250?char) field which automatically copy title and the start of the post, and let me reedit them. I also want a common tag-system for the blog and twitter to automatically set hashtags. And I want to use my bit.ly pro to compress the links. And then I´ve like to schedule both blog, post and fb, and repeat if I want. And even track my clicks, taps and other. The tool should use css to produce output for web, iPad and iPhone, and I should be able to preview them before I post. I think it should be possible to create this tool using for instance google apps, ie - docs for editing, calendar for scheduling and so forth. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment12http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment12Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:16:52 GMTIf you publish the posts without a date in the order they're written, why doesn't the publish system just first tries to retrieve a post with the current date or a date in the past (in case you've scheduled two posts on one day or the system crashed) and if nothing comes back, it retrieves the first post from the queue? http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment11http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment11Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:42:15 GMTAyende, which feature do you need? Can you write me an email and explain better what you need? http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment10http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment10Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:27:13 GMTWOW. I belive that with your post throughput, the word "blog" is almost inadequate. This machine-gun like writing reminds me more of life-streaming. So if you already write your own software to support it, you should consider calling it the "Strog"! http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment9http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment9Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:56 GMTYou also need a "Save for AFK" button for the odd whimsical post that isn't really date sensitive and you don't really care about feedback on right away. Perfect to sit in a hidden futures queue waiting to get promoted automatically when the future queue drops below 4 entries. (Such as when you get pulled off into conscript duty, or head off to London without your AC adaptor and are stuck in the Airport cursing pseudonyms.) You know, just so people don't panic thinking you've up and died or something. ;) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment8http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment8Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:27:05 GMTWow. You actually have so many posts that you need to implement a queue management solution, with fixed-position and flexible-position items in the queue. You are my hero. :-) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment7http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment7Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:18:40 GMTAyende - the other thing is (and I think you've mentioned this before) that when you schedule posts ahead of time, a lot of interesting discussion happens in the comments section pretty much without you. Not sure if that's good or bad - depends on what your goal is I suppose. Tradeoffs. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment6http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment6Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:36:00 GMTA console software might be a good option to consider. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment5http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment5Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:48:24 GMT@Patrick I wouldn't recommend taking such risks. Everyone will be pissed off when the world suddenly stops turning http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment4http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment4Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:37:47 GMTInstead of writing your own software can you just write a tool that adjusts the underlying database of the current software (to push future dates forward etc)? May be easier :) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment3http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment3Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:44:07 GMTI did actually write my own blog engine, and only 2 weeks ago I put in support for future posting (inspired by what I saw on your site). Alas, I don't have the push feature either, because I am not writing enough :) http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment2http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment2Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:18:39 GMT>I can relax for a month and the blog will function on auto pilot You also have the option to not blog at all for a month or two. Nobody except you, require you to blog. It is a positive experience to figure out that the world still turns even if you relax for a month or two. http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment1http://ayende.com/4619/i-need-my-own-blog-software-damn-it#comment1Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:12:12 GMT