I'm around 20 hours of latenight coding into a freelance .Text project for some folks out in Vermont's Sister State of Colorado. (I've heard the sister relationship mentioned a few times, don't know from whom or whether it has any validity at all, but I like to say it.) I haven't done a freelance job in over five years, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to spend more quality time with ScottW's .Text source (0.95.) As I customized the 0.95 source for my dbvt.com/blog (DotText category for details) I stayed within Scott's architecture and object model every step of the way because the guy's such a wizard developer. I've blogged on this point before, but the more I work with Scott's .Text code or Jason Alexander's nGallery source, the more I can apply their technical wizardry to my own applications. I do like how these guys code!
.Text customization for the freelance project requires sharing a common set of categories used by all site bloggers as well as supporting individual categories, comments are restricted to authenticated users only, and file uploading support with RSS attachments (feeds in podcast format). Lots of details to accompanying those three primary requirements, and the more digging into .Text 0.95 to make this stuff happen the better!
I'll be blogging on customization details and cool .Text discoveries when time allows. I wanted to briefly describe the project here as a point of reference for future posts.
Near the UVM White Barn
