My previous entry ended with my saying that I would be migrating Tombatron.com to the ASP.NET MVC framework. I figured that I’d post some lessons learned every now and then so that others can learn from my experiences. I’ve started working on the migration and I must say that I’m actually surprised at the progress I’ve been able to make in just a few hours. The biggest hurdle I had to jump over today was “Routing”...

As a software architectural pattern Model-View-Controller is not a new concept. However for ASP.NET developers it has just hit the mainstream, and so far it has been my experience that no one is excited. Web Forms have served us well adequately for years but I feel it may be time to move on.

Here are the two rules that I live by when it comes to my career.

Why would you want to implement the MetaWeblog API on your site? Well if you are like me then the answer is quite simple, you don’t really like writing long winded posts for your blog using a web based rich text editor. You would prefer to write and post an article from an application similar to Microsoft Word. Well in order to use a tool like that you need to provide some kind of interface for your blog writing application of choice and your website. In comes MetaWeblog API to the rescue. In this article I will give an overview on how I implemented the MetaWeblog API for Tombatron.com so that I could use Windows Live Writer to write awesome posts like this one.

Wow, it’s been quite some time since my “first post”. My new years resolution is to post at least once a month (hopefully more). I’ve got a couple of good ideas floating around in my head on things such as MetaWeblog API implementation and how I handle settings on Tombatron.com. If you want a sneak peak at either of those things you can always view the source code for this website over at Google Code. Check in later for more details!