I am pleased to announce that the LinkHugger.com blog now uses Battle Blog.

This is the latest in a series of actual running Battle Blogs.  As of this date the code is not available to the public at large.  The sites using Battle Blog today are all affiliated with Battle Blog author David Pinero, aka Dave the Web Guy.

I took a break from Battle Blog last weekend to code up LinkHugger.com .  This is a website that allows web links to be shared interpersonally using special "link codes".  So, for example, you have your significant other at work in one office while you toil in another.  LinkHugger.com allows you to share links throughout the day outside of e-mail or instant messaging.  The service retains links until you've each visited them, or can keep them if you chooose.  Anyway, it's a handy service I'm spreading the word about, and I know that most of you dropping in might be fans of my coding projects enough to do so yourself.  Please hit the page and be sure to use the social media buttons to spread the word!

I've begun to comb the code from top to bottom in an effort to stamp out all possibilities for SQL injection attacks.  I've opted to white-list every input possible, though I know that nothing I do will absolutely insure that Battle Blog is never hacked.  Unfortunately when I make this code available to the public it will be every user's responsibility to maintain the integrity of the blog at both the server level and the application level.  I only admit to being a beginner or "hack" developer and this status should speak for itself.

I also got the metric leader boards up and running.  I hope they are all okay but we'll see how the next couple of days go.   These will be optional to run and can be excluded or included by simply inserting or deleting a single line in the custom sidebars.  After all, I suspect many of you will want that space for your money-earning Google Ads or something.

I've whipped together a quick e-mail address submission page to be used exclusively by folks who want the earliest absolute word on when Battle Blog is finally available via download.  If that's you, don't hesitate.

I'm also listing the first batch of blogs using the new Battle Blog. These are all operated by yours truly, the Battle Blog code has not been distributed.

• NYC Media Bypass
• Opennes.org
• Headline Prophet Blog

I am getting an AMAZING number of registrants to this website.  I appreciate that but it's obvious that most everyone taking the time to register is actually interested Battle Field.  While it's certainly possible many of you were drawn here looking for Battle Field information initially and then said "Whoa!, a classic ASP blogging engine?  I'm down with that!", for some reason I'm inclined to doubt.

This blog shares a similar domain structure for the Battle Field blog, as noted in earlier posts.  To be clear, while I love you folks, this website is a demonstration site for my custom blogging engine, Battle Blog.  Sign up here if you wish, but you will eventually be receiving communication about the various milestones in my blog engine's development if you do.   With that said, here's a picture of me saluting you!

Here's the latest progress report on Battle Blog 2.0 development.  Added some issues, others made it to test.

Here is the current list of known issues with Battle Blog 2.0:

Development continues but the application remains unavailable and a distribution model as of yet decided upon.  Nonetheless, if you would like to remain in the loop and possibly receive the first code deployment, please e-mail gmbattleblog@gmail.com (or use the other information presented on the contact page).