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Raymond Lewallen

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BlogJet feature request

Recently, us folks over here aquired BlogJet and licenses for each of us.  A wonderful blogging tool.  I have been very happy with it and its features.  I do have one feature request, that probably doesn't apply for most of us.  I want to be able to queue up completed blog postings for publishing at a later date.  Sometimes on weekends I get a bunch of blog posts written all at once.  Since I'm always connected to the internet, why not have completed, unposted blog posts queued up with a publishing date?  Does this save me time? No.  Money?  No.  Does it really do anything special for me?  No.  I just like to have stuff to play with :)

Right now I have finished my final post on OOP principles and a blog post on boxing/unboxing to be published in a few days.  Its no big deal to bring those up and just publish them when the time is right.  Where this feature would come in handy is on a new series I am starting on this next week, that will continue for the next 3 months.  I will be covering, per blog post, each of aspects of XP methodologies, one per week.  I might write 3 or 4 of them in one sitting.  I would like to be able to say "publish this one on March 18th, the next one on March 25th, etc"  and write them all at once and know they are finished and ready to publish.  Yes, you can save your posts as drafts and bring them up and publish them later, but I actually do have unfinished drafts and keep seperate folders for drafts and completed/unpublish because you have to publish by actually bringing up the post and clicking a button to publish.  I'm extremely lazy and what to automate the publishing of posts that belong to a series, such as my upcoming XP articles.


Comments

Sahil Malik said:

Can you save a draft?
# March 13, 2005 9:20 AM

ben said:

I do the same thing sometimes, I have an "Outgoing" folder that I save completed drafts to, that I will post later. I think what you are suggesting would have to be a completely separate application from BlogJet, it would have to run as a service and check periodically for posts to publish. I don't think it would be too hard, I'm sure someone has some library that can publish to the simpleblogservice. You could even publish drafts inside a folder, where the folder name is the date and time that you want the post published, and the service would publish it at that time.
# March 13, 2005 9:54 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Sahil, yes, but that's not what I'm getting at. Drafts are unfinished. I'm talking about setting a datetime to publish a completed post.

Ben, I think I'm going to look into writing a windows service that will do that very thing. Scan an outgoing folder and pick them up and publish to the blog using the MetaBlogAPI based on a file header or something.
# March 13, 2005 1:36 PM

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# March 14, 2005 8:11 AM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :) Check out Devlicio.us!

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