One more step...

Tue, Feb 4, 2003

This is a test of an entry generated in my tool. I have to type in raw HTML right now, but everything appears to be working...

Here is a screen shot of the current UI:

Things yet to do...

  • Use MSHTML for rich editing. And switch back and forth in a reasonable way. (Does anyone out there have a simple example I can drop in here? I'm not looking forward to screwing with all of the interop)
  • Automatic upstreaming
  • Allow changing of time on an entry
  • Deleting and other such management of an entry
  • Categories!
  • Work on my template to improve the look of my site
  • Multiple site management and site configuration. A lot of stuff is hard coded right now.

I've also decided that storing the entries in an xml file per day is a bad idea. The timezones will get you. I store the timestamp on an entry using GMT but the XML file (which is used as input into the UI) is based on local time. I also use localtime all over the place in the UI. I'll probably move to a flat list of entries (one per XML file) at some point and just figure out the local day assignments at runtime. This will map much better to a real database anyway.