Using the Google Blogger API to implement forums in your web application using Kendo UI

A requirement came down the pipe the other day to implement discussion forums in our newest inspection application. We looked at several off-the-shelf forum implementations but they all lacked the ability to properly integrate with the existing style and presentation of the host application.

Investigation led us to the Google Blogger API. Since this is a REST API and communicates via JSON it is an exceptionally good fit for our application and allows us to use the Kendo UI library from Telerik to write our presentation layer.

We will be detailing the implementation steps we took to integrate with our application in subsequent posts.