I have to admit after spending most of my day at work building a website it's a real challenge to come home and go right back to web development. The good and bad thing about it is I'm the boss. If I'm up and at it I can get a lot done and it will be exactly what I wanted to do. If I'm not feeling it their is no taskmasters whip to keep me going. Today I had to really struggle to get to work but I had an early milestone victory that encouraged me to keep going.

The first task was to complete the rss feed import functionality. I had to update the drupal feeds module to the latest dev release in order to get the node updates to work correctly. With that in place it is now possible to register an rss feed from any blogging site and the content will automatically be imported into blogrimage.com. Consequently by creating a container for the blog posts that are imported it also enables the user to create blog posts right on blogrimage.com.

Once the import and blog type were settled for the day I started my first iteration of user experience testing. I created a test user and went through the process of registering a blogrimage. This resulted in my setting initial permissions on the system. I also added a few more basic administration and debugging tools to the site to make testing easier and pave the way for further work tomorrow.

The plan for tomorrow is to set up the basic voting system to allow people to thumbs up a good blogrimage or flag a inappropriate topics.

I'm also eager to begin adding a category system. I would like some input on this part though. What categories would you like to see to help classify a blogrimage? The purpose of these categories is to help people find the blogs their interested in. What categories would best serve that purpose? Terms should be two words or less and mostly self explanatory.

Some ideas I have to get it started (Would also love feedback on my terminology):

Physical Fitness
-Weight Loss
-Weight Gain (muscle mass)
-Challenge (Reach goal of 100 pushups in one sitting)
-Habits (run 30min a day)
Intellectual
-Facts (memorize 200 digits of pi or the name of every country)
-Skills (Learn a language, Learn to repair your car)
-Writing (non-fiction)
Artistic (Art mediums)
-Poetry/Fiction
-Drawing/Painting
-3D Art
-Music (Performing/Song writing)
-Digital Graphics/Photography
-Film/Animation
Hobby
-Technical (Create a web site or iPhone app)
-Large Construction (Home projects)
-Automotive
-Small construction (models)
Spiritual
-Habits (Read a spiritual book 30min a day)
Social
-Fashion
-Friendships
-Romantic
Economic
-Business Plans
-Monetary Goals
Other