I've been watching the downloads of ViNull Siding (the open source project I run that is the code for this site), and today SourceForge reported I had crossed the 100th download mark! The project has only been up for just over a month, and I've not done much in the way of promoting the project, so I'm quite impressed by the rate people are grabbing up the code. I think it has more to do with the pace .NET is taking hold than my leet code fu. Or it's hackers looking at the source code to find a way to exploit the site. (When I decided to launch the site as open source, I made sure to start daily backups because I know one morning I'll learn ViNull.Com is *the* place for Viagra and mortgage rates.)
Today also marks a major milestone in ViNull Siding features: Movable Type API support. MT is just a method used by blogging tools, such as Windows Live Writer, Flock, and Performancing, to let you compose your blog posts in something better than a tiny textarea in a web page. I must say I've found the world of supporting a blog API to be a dark one indeed: poor to non-existent protocol specifications, bad clients, and generally laden with bugs beyond your control. This goes for them all.
In the end I focused on Windows Live Writer, for the reason you see before you now. That photo up there? Yea, I dragged that from My Pictures on to the post, adjusted the margins and link, and WLW did the rest.
I've posted a Roadmap for ViNull Siding, and now with MT out of the way, the next step is to get a version that runs in Visual Studio Web Developer Express (it's the free version of the pro tool) out of the box. Then I need to get some project documentation going so it's not just wandering randomly though some guys code, trying to figure out where everything's at. After that, I've setup some ideas to do, and I've also got an idea for a WLW plugin. So, please, this November, vote "Yes" to the 36 hour day!
