Welcome to the metaApps, the home of metaBlog and other useful apps.

Investigating RSS More Thoroughly
I am looking into this whole RSS thing more thoroughly to see how it can best be used within the metaApps framework, and perhaps in metaBlog.

I really like the idea of metaBlog users being able to aggregate news utilizing RSS feeds from their favorite sites. Stay tuned for more on this matter.

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RSS Enabled
metaBlog weblogs now generate an RSS news feed whenever content is created or updated.

Check it out here.

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More To Do
I have got to get the archives going. Got to.

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Looks Good
Bryan, You have done a great job on this app When will it be completed? ;)

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Soooooo Close!
metaBlog is very close to being ready. It is taking a lot longer than I anticipated mainly because I haven't been working on it much, but is getting very close now.

This is the first post made since I created a metaBlog specific database and renamed many tables, columns, and rewrote many store procedures.

Time for a break.

Posted by Bryan @ 5:11 PM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

Tasks Left

• Modify database tables and sprocs for use within metaBlog app
• Create Comment page template
• Create login page
• create admin pages

Posted by Bryan @ 12:22 PM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (3) | # | TrackBack (0)

Working, working, working
I'm still working hard on metaBlog. Hopefully it will be ready for a limited distribution later today.

Email me at bryan at daneman.com to get a copy when it is ready.

Posted by Bryan @ 12:19 PM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (1)

metaBlog Deployed
This morning, metaBlog was deployed to its first website.

Ok, so it was only this site, but hey this site is the home for the app, so why not use it here?

Things went very smooth, except for that pesky runat="server" property I sometimes forget.

Listening To: "Voodoo Child" by Moby

Posted by Bryan @ 11:49 AM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

Things To Include In The First Release - Code Name

• Basic blog template
• View by category
• Comments
• Category List w/number of posts
• Basic content management
• Basic user management
• Basic blog management
• Script for creating the database, tables, store procedures, creating user, setting proper permissions, and inserting standard data

Hmmm...there seems to be a theme here - basic. Yes, but it is better than nothing.

Listening To: "Spectrum" by Andrew Hill

Posted by Bryan @ 11:53 AM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

Moving Along
Things are progressing nicely with metaBlog (do you like that name? have a better one?).

I just need to provide a content management page, make a better default interface for navigating content by categories, and separate the blog parts of the database from the daneman.org database, then I'll be ready to distribute this app (very limited at first).

Listening to: "Blues March" by Art Blakey

Posted by Bryan @ 11:28 AM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

To Do's
Now that the template engine is built, here is a list of other things I need to do.

• Determine how metaBlog fits in with my existing systems.
• Create a blog specific admin area
• Archives
• Calendar
• Links
• Events
• Enable group blogs
• Design web site for metaBlog
• Commenting system
• Workout categories - single level or hierarchical

Listening to: Sublime - What I Got.

Posted by Bryan @ 9:59 AM | Filed Under metaBlog News | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

It's ALIVE!!!
I've been working for some time now on my own blogging utility (tool for creating and updating a web log), and it's almost done.

Actually it is done. What you are reading here is rendered by the metaBlog content engine (that's my cool utility). It will be available to everyone soon.

I should state for the record that by "everyone" I mean people using .NET. That's right, it is for ASP.NET only. I am considering doing what some of the others do and build the files on my server and then upload them to yours, but as I said, that has yet to be determined.

Posted by Bryan @ 5:34 PM | Filed Under Web Development | Comments (0) | # | TrackBack (0)

What Language Do You Use?
I use VB. Specifically, I use VB.NET. Once in a while I have to go back to VB 6, but that is rarer and rarer these days (thank god).

I also do javascript and have done C++. One of these days I will get myself familiar with the C syntax again and look into C# (only after I am thoroughly familiar with the .NET CLR and all of the assorted classes.

So what do you use? Talkback.

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