It's been a slow week but, then again, it started with me under the knife in the hospital for a minor outpatient surgery.  I've been recovering and that has been the focus of my life since then.

I have, however, been chipping away at a few things.  One of them involves a tweak to the Facebook Connect system.  What I had built presented an extra screen to navigate if you were already logged into Facebook but not logged into the Mercury site.  Now if you go to the FBC link in that circumstance it will log you in and whisk you straight to where you need to be.

At long last I've also added Tagging to blog posts.  I had this in the old PageEdit system for a long time but I never got around to making it happen in Mercury.  So now it works and you can navigate blogs posts by category or by tag.  I also increased the server-efficiency of navigating those pages tremendously.

 If you're reading this as a result of clicking a link on Facebook then you already know that it works!  If you're reading it because you found it on Twitter, well, next best thing!

After a rewriting of FBC I've set it up so that  properly authenticated accounts can have status updates made on their behalf from the Mercury engine.  Right now it's limited to blog posts but it will probably extend to status updates, photo uploads and anything else that makes sense to publish!

The jHTMLArea editor from http://jhtmlarea.codeplex.com/ has added to Mercury.  Why would we need this when we already have a full featured rich editor?  Because sometimes you don't want people to have all that power.  This is a good editor for letting people make comments on blogs and on forums.  They don't get full HTML access and they don't get to upload files.

Although I haven't been posting here very much we have been hard at work on Mercury.  I will be making updates here more often but here is a summary of some of the new things: