• Features

Creating new blog tool based upon Junco and Kinglet

#todo - #programming - #blogging

I created Kinglet from Junco code. I'd like to create a smaller blogging tool based upon ideas and code from both Junco and Kinglet.

App name options:

• Modo
• Veery
• Tanager
• Scaup
• Grebe

Features

• Development and Design:
  • API first development like Kinglet.
  • Build the server-side API code first, and then create the "client" code that interacts with the browser.
  • Responsive design
  • Keep the CSS significantly simpler and smaller this time. I start out that way but end up with too much CSS.

• Markup support:
  • pick one of either Markdown, Multimarkdown, or Textile
  • most likely it will either be Multimarkdown or Textile because of the additional features, such as tables and footnotes.
  • some basic HTML commands will be supported too.
  • will the special embed commands for other media types exist?
  • will my long-time customized markup commands exist?
  • if going for a simpler app, then some things will need to be left out of the code, otherwise, it ends up being Junco except designed with API first, which I would prefer to have, but I'd like to do this incrementally with the existing Junco code.

• User Accounts:
  • (signup - Signup - show_signup_form)
  • (createnewuser - Signup - create_new_user)
  • E-mail activation link
  • (acct - Signup - activate_account)
  • (login - Login - login)
  • (newpassword - Password - create_new_password)
  • (user - Profile - show_user)
  • (settings - UserSettings - show_user_settings_form)
  • (changepassword - Password - change_password)
  • (customizeuser - UserSettings - customize_user)
  • (savedchanges - UserSettings - show_user_changes)
  • (logout - Logout - logout)
  • save login

• Blog Posts:
  • (blogpostform - BlogAdd - show_blog_post_form)
  • (addarticle - BlogAdd - add_blog_post)
  • permit namespace titles?
  • enforce unique titles?
  • (blogpost - BlogDisplay - show_blog_post)
  • (source - BlogSource - show_blog_source)
  • (versions - BlogVersions - show_version_list)
  • (compare - BlogCompare - compare_versions)
  • use related blog posts? (relatedblogposts - BlogRelated - show_related_blog_posts)
  • (blog - Stream - show_blog_stream) - blog home page
  • will toc command exist?
  • will showintro command exist?
  • will draft command exist? (draft - Stream - show_draft_blog_stream)
  • no need for the private command.
  • for logged-in owner, (deleteblog - BlogDelete - delete_blog)
  • for logged-in owner, (undeleteblog - BlogUndelete - undelete_blog)
  • is it necessary to provide an archives? (blogarchives - Archives - show_archives)
  • necessary? (blogarchivepage - Stream - show_archives_month_year)
  • (edit - BlogEdit - edit_blog_post)
  • (updateblog - BlogUpdate - update_blog_post)
  • will provide both the simple and enhanced writing areas

• Search
  • (search - Search - search)
  • (searchform - Search - display_search_form)
  • (tags - Search - show_tags)
  • hashtags (tag - Search - tag_search)
  • (tagscounts - Search - show_tags_by_counts)
  • will i need this the 30 most used tags display? (tagscountstop - Search - show_tags_by_top_counts)
  • will i need the tagcloud display?
  • do not need the special "blog_" tag.

• RSS
  • (rss - RSS - get_rss)
  • blog posts
  • search string results
  • hashtag search results
  • by user and overall or just overall?

• Replies
  • if multi-user mode, will i allow users to post replies to each others blog posts? seems like a reasonable explanation. will replies be limited to 300 chars like with Junco replies, which means they are like microblog posts, or will replies in t