Ok, maybe a bit pompous but I just had an eureka moment this morning about umbraco.
As some of you know there's a pretty heavy debate going on in one of my previous posts regarding a
Danish company who "stole" umbraco and marked it as their own (Per made an
English summary). Unfortunately the debate has begun to suffer from anonymous posts and that's just something I can't stand.
But as a blog owner what do you do with anonymous posts, do you delete them and suddenly start being the "god" of the debate, do you just let them stay and indirectly encourage other people to by anynomous?
No, you hide them with the option of showing them and that's where my eureka moment with umbraco came. In less than five minutes I had modified my umbraco installation to support this. I added a tab on the "Comment" document type called moderation with two properties:
1) Hide comment (true/false)
2) Reason for hiding (multiline textfield)
Then I added a simple choose (switch) statement in the
XSLT drawing the comments and voila.
You can see
the solution in action here.
Now, there might be some Wordpress fans outthere saying that this is probably already default in Wordpress (which rocks for blogging btw). But my point is not about blogging software - it's about the agile perspective with umbraco. That the flexibility of umbraco makes it so easy to do things like this without turning them into projects.
And that's why I took the freedom to be a bit pompous ;-)