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BlogCFC 3.9 Beta

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 08-08-2005 | 2,061 views

Another week, another beta from Camden, Inc...

  • I added a category editor. Yes, I know. I waited till version 3.9 before adding a simple way for folks to edit their categories. I'm insane and I apologize.
  • RSS 2.0. Straight from Steven Erat's blog.
  • Pod Casting support. You can now add an enclosure (attached file) to your blog entries. I suggest using the style Steven seems to be using - which is to create a category for pod casts, and then put your blog entries both in their main category (ColdFusion for example) and the podcast category. A download link will appear for items with enclosures, and they will show up in the RSS feed of course.
  • A few minor pages now use the TITLE attribute in the layout custom tag.
  • The "admin menu bar" now lives in the layout file.
  • Fixed a bug in the search pod.
  • The Spanish locale file is not updated yet.
You can download the beta here.

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EdG said on 08-08-2005 at 10:56 AM #
hi

thanks for the blog code - we're intending to use it internally as a comms tool. one quick query: we haven't been able to get the SES URLs to work. they return a 404 Not Found: <head><title>JRun Servlet Error</title></head><h1>404 /blog/client/index.cfm/2005/8/3/weblinkapi</h1><body>
/blog/client/index.cfm/2005/8/3/weblinkapi</body>

we're running CF under JRun via J2EE via Apache. obviously this is a webserver issue but we've been unsuccessful in finding the cause - has anyone had a similar error?

thanks,
ed
Raymond Camden said on 08-08-2005 at 12:33 PM #
Sorry - I'm not too sure about that setup. I _do_ run with Apache on my local dev box, but CF is directly connected.
Roger Benningfield said on 08-08-2005 at 10:49 PM #
Ray: A suggested tweak... given the semantics of rss:category, this:

[category]foo,bar[/category]

...is interpreted as the "foo,bar" category, rather than something in two distinct cats. You might want to loop over the categories and give them each an rss:category of their own.
Raymond Camden said on 08-09-2005 at 7:48 AM #
Roger - done. You should see it in this blog's rss. I'm not going to update the zip though till I release it officially. Thanks!
EdG said on 08-09-2005 at 11:58 AM #
If anyone's running a J2EE setup and wants to run BlogCFC (or indeed any app that uses search engine safe SES URLs) and is experiencing the same JRun 404 issue we reported, here's the MM TechNote containing the fix:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/in...

It requires a simple change to the web.xml file for the server instance you're using for the blog. Thanks for the BlogCFC code Ray - might be worth adding a line to your install doc about this? Hope it's useful anyway.
Raymond Camden said on 08-09-2005 at 12:06 PM #
EdG: I updated the Word doc. It will be in the final release.
Jack Dalaa said on 08-11-2005 at 3:06 PM #
Couple of feature requests:

1) Add a Permalink feature, so it's easy for people to copy/bookmark a direct link to the blog entry, and naturally SES. See http://www.engadget.com for example.

2) Search engine friendly category ID's, based on the category title, so your ColdFusion category instead of:

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm?mode=cat&...

would be:

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm?mode=cat&...

Otherwise, really impressed by your blog product. Expect to launch a blog shortly using it.
Raymond Camden said on 08-11-2005 at 3:08 PM #
For permalink, don't you just mean the detail link? How is not bookmarkable now? I used have "Link" in the footer, but when I made the title clickable, it seemed silly.
Jack Dalaa said on 08-11-2005 at 3:19 PM #
I actually didn't notice the headline being a link, but obviously I can use that, since it's a link.

But I think it needs to be more obvious, which is why the permalink works so well--it has sort of become a standard way of offering no-BS links to blog entries. Just my 2 cents.
Jack Dalaa said on 08-11-2005 at 3:21 PM #
Also, while we're at the feature requests:

It'd be *great* to have an 'add comment' form at the bottom of the comments on the "detail" page:

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2005/8/8/Blo...

.. Now I have to scroll all the way back up, click the comments link, then in the pop window, scroll all the way back down to post a reply.
Raymond Camden said on 08-12-2005 at 2:43 PM #
I've added Jack's request to my bug tracker.

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