Personal Homepage of: David Francis
This is my personal website. It is a place where I write what I want for people who care to read. It’s not private per se, but it is of little use to anyone other than myself, those I care about or those who care about me. You’re more than welcome to read the public parts of the site, but don’t be surprised if you find yourself scratching your head and wondering, “Who cares?”
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Major Changes to Blogs
Friday, November 30, 2007 8:08 am
I have several blogs that I have been posting to for a couple of years now. I have used, and enjoyed the Blogger interface and service that is now owned by Google. As with most online applications, I always find little discrepancies that create a desire to modify the code and make it better.
I have posted several times about how I have wanted to bring all of my blog posts from Blogger to my own database. The problem has been time for coding as well as rummaging through 600 or so posts. The rediscovery of ASP.NET as well as a major change in my own hosting company has rekindled the desire to make the effort, once and for all, to bring the blogs home to daddy.
This is a major undertaking as I intend to not only move each blog into my own system, but also verify the information, links and images in each blog, post updates to the articles and leave either remarks at the old locations or auto redirects to the new locations.
There is a foundation from which I will build the new system. It comes from www.ASP.net and it is one of their starter kits. I won't be using it as is though; I will be modifying the code a good bit to adapt it to my own core scripting schema as well as adding cross referencing and multiple blog/domain capabilities.
While this is something that is important to me, it is not a source of revenue so it remains on "hobby" status. As such, I will accomplish the coding as time allows. I will then import each month as time allows as well. So don't look for this to be done by Christmas... I have several other programming projects that are potential revenue builders but include the need for this application. HUH? What I mean is, I have requirements for other sites/clients to build the better blog interface, so the programming will be accomplished for them, and then I will apply it to my own blog needs and begin the import process.
Category: Development
Category: Blogs
Blogs
Updated Monday 18 Jun, 2007
For the past few years I've been enjoying blogging on different subjects from personal interests to small business. I am currently neglecting two blogs and this page. www.Soky.biz and http://blog.davidfrancis.org.
I had grand plans to expand my blogs, but time and a need to withhold information has me delaying my plans. I will likely consolidate all of my blogs into a single personal one except break it down into categories. (And then feed those categories into specific blogs but that gets kind of technical.)
Who knows what time will bring to my blogging efforts, but at this time I find myself without the time nor the willingness to share my thoughts, insights or opinions with the general public.
Likely, a strong focus on travel, fitness, nutrition and martial arts will be in the future; I simply need to get my ducks in a row first.
To be continued...