Last night I began work on something I started thinking and writing about during Beach Week: a Community Server Daily News List Blog. The Daily News List Blog will be a second, separate CS News blog (published in addition to the current Daily News blog) and used primarily for searching, aggregating, organizing and mashing up in any number of ways. Each news item will be individually permalinked, individually tagged, and fully searchable.
Below is an example of a Daily News List blog post, based on an item taken from yesterday's Daily News.
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Restricting application area access to registered users or role
Restricting application area access to registered users or role. Ken Robertson and Bill Robertson (no relation :-) on using the web.config to restrict access to specific application areas. I was so inspired by the simple brilliance of this functionality in solving a separate issue yesterday that I nuglified it in a similarly titled CS Nuglet. Also added to General Discussion Forum FAQ.
Tags: web.config, restricting access, Ken Robertson, Bill Robertson, forums
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I'm pretty excited about the potential of the List Lego approach to the Daily News. What I began working on last night is the List Builder. The Builder will take a full Daily News Weblog Post and strip it down to <LI /> items. It then converts each of those LIST items into an individual Weblog Post, uses the first <HTML> text string as the WeblogPost's Subject, and posts it in unpublished format to the Daily News List Blog. After all new posts are created from one or more issues of the Daily News, I'll go into the Control Panel to eyeball each item as a typical post making sure each has a descriptive subject and is fully tagged before publishing them.
I don't want to get too sidetracked by the technical aspects of coding the List builder, but I can tell you I had to make myself get out of Visual Studio to hit the sack last night at 2:00. Last night's progress was to take Daily News posts and strip out everything but the individual <LI /> items. Below is yesterday's Daily News as individual LIST items. I used a custom version of the HtmlScrubber for the stripping. (I do love that HtmlScrubber!) The page shown is for testing only and is an ordinary ASP.NET Webforms page inside of Community Server with a Repeater bound to a BlogThreadQuery ThreadSet, much like the blog EntryList control.
