Simon Fell > Its just code > RESTLog

Saturday, April 05, 2003

This weblog is based on an implementation of the RESTLog API that I wrote in .NET. The source code is available under the MIT license, for those who are interesting in running / examining / extending this themselves

The server is implemented as a number of custom HttpHandlers that are compiled to a DLL, and has the following features

• Any number of weblog instances can be run on a single ASP.NET install.
• configuration for a particular instance of a weblog is handled entirely in the web.config file.
• template files (ordinary aspx format pages) are used to control the look & feel / rending of the pages.
• A static RSS (1.0) file is generated each time there's a change.
• Support for automatic pingbacks.
• main index page show recent entries, there are also monthly archive pages and individual post pages.
• posts are stored as simple XML files, easy to migrate to/from other blogging tools.

You can download the binaries and source for v0.1, then take a gander at the installation and configurations notes. The latest code is available on SourceForge

A .NET Winforms application for adding/updating/deleting posts for any RESTLog compliant server

• Simple interface, supports multiple weblogs
• Spell checker (requires MS Word)
• Winamp integration (requires WS-Amp) & WMP9 integration (requires the Blog Plugin)
• Drag'n'drop from the browser to edit.
• Can ping weblogs.com plus any other servers that implement the weblogs.com ping interface.
• Includes a pingback & trackback client.

Still in progress, v0.6 is now available.

A Cocoa application for Mac OS X for adding/updating/deleting posts for any RESTLog compliant server

• Native Cocoa application
• Spell Checker
• iTunes integration
• Drag'n'drop from the browser to edit

Still in progress, here a screen shot, to keep you going.