Just sent off my slides and code to Thom, which means I'm in final preparation mode. If all goes according to plan, the lucky attendees to the Customizing dotText session will be squealin' from the feelin'! **
The mods we'll be walking through will be
- Tying a weblog to external content (projects, events, etc.)
- Multiple author support on a single blog
- Email subscription services to supplement RSS distribution
- New category types (subcategories, shared categories, etc.)
- Podcasting
- Subscribing to a single post
- Searching with Lucene as implemented in (for lack of a better description) 0.96
- Adding a Calendar Control
- Recent comments and recent posts usercontrols
- CAPTCHA (Are you human?)
Advanced ASP.NET Practices we'll going to touch on include
- HttpHandling
- Providers: urlFormat, DTO, dB, Config, Email
- Inheritance and Base Class objects
- Business Objects, Interfaces and the Data Layer
- XMLRPC and the MetaBlog API
- Event Scheduling
The code samples will include complete podcasting and CAPTCHA mods, along with a dotText Calendar control.
** from the movie Down Periscope. The complete dialog (from a WikiPedia entry) is
Cmdr. Dodge: Alright, everybody, it's time to kick this pig! Leave Graham squealing from the feeling!
R.J. Jackson: Squeaking from the freaking!
Buckman: Oinking from the boinking!