I haven't blogged for a few nights because I was writing code. I was adding Series Collections to my blog that I discussed a few nights ago.
If you go to the home page of my blog you'll see the traditional “Blog Links”, “Post Categories”, “Archives”, and new at the bottom, “Series Collections.” Series Collections are intended to serve as subcategories with a narrow subject focus and containing multiple posts. I wanted to be able to retrieve, say, book reviews of books I read while on the Nordic Track. I didn't want to make it a major category and I didn't want a shitload of categories, so now I have a “Nordic Track Book Reviews” Series, which falls under the generic “Dear Diary” Category. All Series Collections have a parent category.
I added .Text administrative support, an additional sidebar menu links collection and a page (from a new link in my “Blog Links” menu) which lists all Series Collections on a single page.
I'm looking forward to getting into the .Text source on how I did this. For now I'll just say it required changing and adding a few business objects, changing and adding Data Provider methods, updating the HttpHandler configuration, and doing some stored proc work.