Added the ability for the blogger to receive emails when a new comment is posted to a blog entry.

Added the ability to contact me by email via a contact form.

I added in the ability for my site to receive track back pings.  The pings get logged into a database table.  I only allow one trackback per Url and Blog Unique Id.  I also added the ability to only allow trackbacks if the Url is really referencing the blog identifier it is attempting to ping.  This should hold down spam some.  I still need to do the following around trackbacks:

• Add in the ability for this site to ping other sites. 
• Add the ability to remove trackbacks in the admin pages
• List trackbacks on the Blog Detail page
• Add the ability to show a count of all trackbacks 

I went ahead and added a single RSS feed to my site.  I ended up using the RSS Toolkit that can be found on Dmitryr's blog.  It was very easy to get the tool kit to publish RSS.  I need to bounce the RSS XML format against the 2.0 specifications to be sure I am emitting decent RSS. 

I had one problem with the control that comes with the tool kit.  I attempted to create multiple channels based on the Blog Catagories that I have defined in case someone would want to subscribe to only a specific catagory.  However when I placed this control in a repeater whenever a post back occurs I get an error stating this "is not a valid virtual path".  I suspect it has something to do with the control when it is trying to append the ChannelName to the query string.  For now I just removed the subcatagory RSS feeds.

Well I decided to move my blog off of .Text and onto a custom blog application that I am writting from scratch.  I didn't really have any problems with .Text but I wanted to create some new features and I did not have the source.  So as it stands right now I have limited blogging features in my custom solution.  I was able to migrate my data out of .Text and into the new schema without much issue.  I have some old links to the old blog that will have to be changed.

I will be slowly adding the following features:

• RSS Feeds - Done 6/4/2006
• Ability to add comments
• Blog search
• Support for blogging API so that I can add blog entries from a smart client application
• Submit blog entry by email
• Ability to create blog entries but delay the publishing of the entries - Done 6/10/2006

I have tried several blogging services and software packages and I finally decided to use .Text on my own web site.  I felt I had more control over what I wanted to do with my blog if I used my own site and a package that came with the source.  So far I really like .Text and I can't think of anything I would change currently.

Well I am in the process of moving over to a new webhosting service.  I used to use Flarehosting but I changed to WebHost4Life.  The new service is cheaper and provides more capabilities.  So far I am very impressed with the service.  The control panel used to configure your web site gives you a lot of capabilities.  I now have subdomain capability without additional cost. 

I now have .Text (version .94) configured for multiple blogs on WebHost4Life.  It wasn't too hard to do but took a little digging around.  I wanted it to be set up as a subdomain so I could have other applications on my main domain.  Once I get around to it I will add the steps it took to configure .Text to the new DotTextWiki.