Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:24:37 GMT

John, per our conversation this afternoon, this dialog that just popped up gave me an idea about the relationship between instant messaging and Radio.

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:35:07 GMT

This is a test. If it works, the white-on-orange XML button will have an ALT attribute.

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:29:30 GMT

This is a test. If it works, the Radio badge will have an ALT attribute.

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:22:19 GMT

This is a test. If it works, my spam-free email icon should have an ALT attribute.

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:45:59 GMT

Interesting development. The Zaphod mail list just went closed. Hah. Wonder why. Look at the cowards scurrying for cover. There was some data in that list, real names of real people, saying and doing things they probably don't want anyone to know about. Isn't it funny how when their privacy and livelihoods are at stake they don't hesitate to protect it. Cowards.

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:38:46 GMT

First thanks for all the emails of support re the Winerlog thing.

I just read most of the posts on their mail list.

I saw my personal phone number published. This certainly is way over the line of criticizing or lampooning a public figure.

I saw one of our Radio 8 beta testers there -- that's the highest form of trust we can show of someone, and it really hurts to see that trust betrayed. (I sent private email to the person involved.)

I saw the webmaster of Heroes & Villains, our most expensive-to-host free site, take cheap shots at my integrity and the professionalism of my company; as we have been working with him privately to transition his site off our servers.

The things people say and do there hurt me personally and my company, and also our users and developers who are trying to build businesses around our software.

We're serious about protecting our business and privacy. If you're participating in this, understand that there are serious consequences in interfering with our business and we won't stand by and do nothing.

Let's take the discussion off our websites, and move it where it belongs, on the list that was established to discuss the site in question. I've signed up, pending approval by the listmaster. As soon as I get approval I will post a pointer to this page there.

Instead of distracting our community with what has been, up till now, merely an annoyance, let's go there, and ask them if they really want to support what whatever it is that the coward behind Winerlog is doing.

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:59:51 GMT

First I've fixed a major problem in file.synchTableWithFolder, won't release it until tomorrow. Earlier versions didn't work well with scalars because timeModified verb doesn't work with scalars. T

he problem was the type "code" is a scalar, and that's what we were working with. So the contents of the Macros folder was loaded every ten seconds whether or not there were any changes. We now keep a cache at system.temp.fileSynchCache, with an entry for each scalar we're managing, indexed by its file path, with a value of the last time it was loaded.

This way if the file changes, we reload it, but otherwise we have a reliable mod date for the scalar.

To prove that the new code works, here's a pic of Ru Paul's mouth, as viewed through the frameIt macro.

<%frameit ("", bgcolor:pink)%>

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:52:47 GMT

Doc Searls is my friend. I'm glad his website is back on the air. We missed you Doc!!

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:21:09 GMT

Boy it's good when the lights come back on after an outage.

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:21:33 GMT

After Riker welcomes on board Ensign Mendon, a slightly arrogant Benzite on board as part of Starfleet's new exchange program, he discusses the program with Picard, who thinks an Enterprise officer should participate. When Riker hears there's a Klingon vessel in the area, he volunteers eagerly. As the Enterprise heads to rendezvous with that vessel, the Pagh, Worf discusses Klingon policy with Riker, particularly the idea that the first officer's duty is to assassinate the captain should he become weak.

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:02:37 GMT

<%clock.now ()%>

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:19:46 GMT

Dan Shafer, famous author, scripting guy, now lives in Monterey.

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:29:11 GMT

Hey, that's a cute kid!

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:28:36 GMT

Announcement: The Blogger API is now baked into Radio 8. I'll write some about this tomorrow on Scripting News.

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:21:57 GMT

BTW, in case you're wondering why DHRB updates every hour, it's because I have a script that sets my day-level permalink to a random Zeldman icon at the top of the hour, and then touches my home page forcing it to upstream so you can see the new icon if you're watching weblogs.com. Maybe it'll lighten your day and make you laugh. I think they're pretty funny. I've uploaded the script to my scratchpad, so you can do it yourself. I may turn it off at some point.

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:19:22 GMT

radio.macros.imageref now supports an optional alt parameter. It was an easy feature to add. Thanks to Steven Vore for the reminder.

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:42:10 GMT

<%radio.macros.imageRef ("/system/images/apacheIcons/folder2.gif", alt:"This is a test. If it works this image should have an alt attribute")%>

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:19:07 GMT

This is a test.

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:32:25 GMT

Whew. I got the My Pictures tool out without too much trouble it seems, praise Murphy. Now I have lots of little bits accumulated to take care of. The next thing is to get rid of all the ' characters on the Weblogs.Com home page. Not sure how they're getting to us, but they are, so I'm just going to nail it down.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:14:09 GMT

Jake and Lawrence are testing the My Pictures tool now. If you see pictures on their Radio sites you'll know something is working. ";->"

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:54:09 GMT

Four more just to test to see that I didn't break anything.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:49:53 GMT

This is the most famous picture from 2001. Everyone loved it. When it came out we knew we would survive. America is a great fucking country and don't you forget it.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:42:43 GMT

Getting it ready to ship. Shelley's dog on drugs makes a good test case. Not too big a picture. Makes me happy for some reason. For all I know the dog is perfectly happy and healthy. But from outward appearances, not so!

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:11:11 GMT

A reminder that my tool works and I should let people play with it. I have to add some code that makes it easy to update, and finish the docs. Let's say around 7:30PM Pacific.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:53:30 GMT

Update: I decided I can't stand to wait, I don't know when to stop waiting. So-- I programmed it this way. When the thread copies files, it makes a note of that. The next time around, if it copies more files, it pushes the image HTML on the accumulated text. It keeps doing this as long as it had work to do. The first time it does no uploading, and there is accumulated text, it opens the home page for you, with the images there.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:29:29 GMT

I copied four Zeldman icons into the watched folder, waited a few seconds, and then refreshed the home page of the desktop website, and there were the four pictures. This is the best interface I could come up with. It's not perfect. I wish I could just open the browser window, but that's not perfect either. What if you're not finished copying pics? How could the software know?

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:19:33 GMT

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:47:20 GMT

What do you think, should I try 10 graphics in one shot?

OK, I will.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:44:32 GMT

I don't know about you -- but my network connection just went to hell a few minutes ago. Broken images everywhere. This is test. Let's see if it's back.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:36:27 GMT

I just tested the tool by copying five pictures into the magic folder, and voila there they all are in my edit box. I'm typing around them. And thanks once again for Zeldman for helping the poor graphic-impaired programmer than I am.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:54:00 GMT

John Grohol surfaces again, this time talking about the psychology of weblogs. Now I'm no expert on psychology, but he's posted some weird shit in his day that made me wonder if he shouldn't get some help himself.

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:43:49 GMT

This is a test of the My Pictures tool. The picture was scarfed from a site pointed to by Burning Bird. The full picture is worth a look. It's a dog, on drugs, obviously. Click on the dog's face to get a more detailed glimpse.

Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:26:07 GMT

Well, it works! Still got some loose ends to clean up, I'll do that tomorrow and then release the tool for testing. (Also have to release radio.macros.weblogPostForm, which gets a minor tweak to work with the tool.)

Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:17:05 GMT

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Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:44:09 GMT

This is a test. I got bored for a minute and decided to write a script that sets my day-level permalink icon to a random zeldman icon. This is of no consequence at all. Please return to what you were doing previously.

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:10:03 GMT

New Radio 8 feature. Now you can post to categories without posting to the home page. If you have categories enabled, there's a new checkbox, the first one, called Home Page (it effectively becomes a category). By default it's checked. Now you can easily publish multiple weblogs, going to lots of different locations, from one edit box. Screen shot.

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:49:11 GMT

http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$6966

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:20:34 GMT

Good morning and welcome to my life as a programmer. First thing this morning I'm going to investigate a problem some people have reported -- when they update their name or email address, it doesn't seem to percolate up to the community server. To test this I will change my name temporarily to Uncle Gravy, which is something people used to call me many years ago. Don't ask why and don't be confused, my name is still Dave Winer, although the cloud might not think so! Back in a bit with a report.. 1. Update #1. I think I have a clue why the name doesn't make it up to the cloud. Radio doesn't send it! Oy yoy yoy. (Easy to fix.) 2. Update #2. As predicted the fix was simple. Issue closed. On to the next one.

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:52:25 GMT

This morning I'm working on the "official" xmlCoffeeMug icon. <%radio.macros.xmlCoffeeMug ()%> Clicking on it might do something. It works! Background: Survey results, Tutorial.

Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:14 GMT

Adam Curry: "I accepted the radio show offer. More news tomorrow!"

Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:23:37 GMT

Test post.

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:47:35 GMT

Ooops. I changed my mind. This is what I really meant to say.

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:00:49 GMT

Yesterday my computer became so slow as to be virtually unusable. I got a lot of work done anyway, but sometimes I'd just stare at the thing and wait for it to echo a key I typed 15 seconds earlier. This morning I cured the problem. My C drive was full. I got the news from my emailer -- "I have so little room I can't even save an email message," it said to me. Ahhh. So I deleted a huge number of automatic backups of huge databases, and now have several gigabytes free on my C drive. Everything is fast again. Fast is good.

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:44:57 GMT

This is a test. I just finished the optimization of the Events page. Learned a lot doing this work. The new page is four times faster than the original.

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:58:37 GMT

For tomorrow: What is a full peer?

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:59:35 GMT

Now I want to know, why is there no "en-ny" language? What's going on there? I bet there are more people who speak like a New Yorker than there are who speak like an Australian. We want our equal rights.

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:56:19 GMT

This is a test. I'm working on support for the <language> element in the main RSS feed for the weblog (categories already have the feature). So if this is working, Dave's Handsome Radio Blog will now appear to be an Australian English weblog. Eh mate! Throw a prawn on the barbie. Boy it's a hot summer this year, what do you think? Yeah, I know. I'm from New York. That's pretty far from Australia. OK so let's see if it works. It did. Yeah.

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:39:30 GMT

I used a different template for the HTML rendering of the Michegas category to prove that I could.

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:49:49 GMT

I've got the user interface coded and tested. Now I want to see if the notification gets through to Weblogs.Com for both Have's Handsome Radio Blob, and the Michegas category. Back in a minute. Not sure if it worked. Trying again. My Events page says the notification was sent, but Weblogs.Com may think my site is a ping-spammer. I'll wait a few minutes and try updating again. OK, it's been about 45 minutes (two phone conversations) so now I'll try updating and see if both the home page and the category page show up on Weblogs.Com. Now I think I have the glitches worked out. You should see both Michegas and DHRB on Weblogs.Com. Wish me luck.

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:09:31 GMT

Just for fun, I'm now rendering my Michegas category in HTML as well as XML. It turned out to be as much fun as I hoped it would. I added code that notifies Weblogs.Com when a category home page is updated, and I made the code better, more loosely coupled. Should make upstreaming perform just a little better. Every bit counts. ";->" I have to put a user interface on it, and do some testing and then I should be ready to release the parts. ETA -- about an hour.

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:32:38 GMT

We released a set of changes that improve the generation of RSS in Radio 8. Includes support for the and elements in RSS 0.92; macros are now processed as feeds are built; a big speed bump; a bug fixed. The code also got a lot more maintainable.

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:58:18 GMT

Let's see if I get a <cloud> element.

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:37:36 GMT

With any luck the Michegas category will now say that its language is Rumanian. Of course. All michegas comes from Rumania. It's been proven.

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:24:48 GMT

This item goes to my main weblog and the Michegas category.

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:43:15 GMT

OK, now I want to test macro evaluation when rendering RSS. <%xmlCoffeeMug ()%> You should see my hacked up XML coffee mug above if that works. One two three.

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:17:32 GMT

This is a test post to see if the main RSS file for this weblog now reflects my managing editor and webmaster preferences. It works.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:30:01 GMT

With any luck -- if you click on the tiny little envelope just under the XML icon, you'll be able to send me an email, and I won't disclose my email address, to make it work. Pray to Murphy. (Postscript: it appears to work. Give it a try.)

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:04:46 GMT

<%random (1, infinity)%>

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:51:37 GMT

I just fixed a problem in the beta-beta of the bridge tool, before it finished refreshing the tool, it would try to "install" the wrong file. In this update, that's a no-op, nothing changed that requires installation. In any case it's fixed so it should all install.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:08:43 GMT

All three cases worked perfectly! Wow. I'm beginning to get my confidence back. This tool is cool.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:08:05 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:07:54 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:07:43 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:06:45 GMT

That worked too. Now I'm going to switch to mirroring to a news-item-oriented Manila site, bloggerapitest.manilasites.com.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:05:28 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:05:18 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:05:04 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:04:34 GMT

OK, that worked. Now I'm going to switch to mirroring to my Blogger site, dave.blogspot.com.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:03:20 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:02:55 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:02:33 GMT

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:00:28 GMT

OK, I'm doing a checkout before opening up the new bridge tool to testers. In this test I am mirroring to dave.editthispage.com, which is a NNIOMS. Let's see if it works.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:00:03 GMT

OK first thing this morning, get the bridge to flat Manila sites working. (I got tired of typing non-news-item-oriented Manila site.) Walking through the script in the debugger worked. Now to try it live. Still not right. This is the code that refuses to work! Now I think I got it. Hehe.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 03:29:19 GMT

Another test of upstreaming.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:51:09 GMT

They don't give you any choice.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:49:15 GMT

They say you never listen to the voice of reason.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:17:33 GMT

Hello.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:13:23 GMT

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:01:23 GMT

This is what programmers type when they're testing stuff.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:42:48 GMT

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam.

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:20:28 GMT

This is a test of the upstream broadcast system.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:37:55 GMT

Hello world.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:11:08 GMT

Now let's go back and see what happens with the Blogger site.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:10:19 GMT

Well, they seem to actually go in in the right order. What do you know.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:09:13 GMT

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:09:06 GMT

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:09:00 GMT

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:08:53 GMT

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:08:47 GMT

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:08:07 GMT

This is not really John Q. Public.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:07:53 GMT

How many of these posts actually made it through?

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:07:35 GMT

I hope I get to add some fun features soon.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:07:21 GMT

Happy Birthday to Scoble!

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:07:10 GMT

One more thing.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:06:58 GMT

I'm not worthy I'm not worthy!

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:06:32 GMT

Things got through in the wrong order. Some days it's better not even to get out of bed. Oy. Such trouble. Let's try this. Please get through. I pray to you Murphy.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:03:44 GMT

A soda water fountain.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:03:28 GMT

And the sycamore trees.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:03:18 GMT

Oh the buzzing of the bees.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:01:51 GMT

Ragga ragga ragga.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:59:58 GMT

Another test.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:59:19 GMT

Testing.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:16:24 GMT

We closed a serious security hole in Radio 8 this morning. Please update now. Details are here.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:34:47 GMT

Hello toodly doo doo doo doo doo doo.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:34:01 GMT

Test post.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:32:51 GMT

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Don't leave your Radio on while pushing something.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:32:19 GMT

Testing

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:30:55 GMT

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Don't leave your Radio on while pushing something.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:58:02 GMT

This is a test.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:46:15 GMT

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Don't leave your Radio on while pushing something.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:55:47 GMT

My last name was given to my grandfather by a random person at Ellis Island. It's also my mother's last name, and many of the people in my family that I care for.

That one would mis-spell it doesn't say anything about me or members of my family, other than I have a last name that can be mis-spelled in an insulting way. (It can also be mis-spelled in a nice way (winner), but people who want to make positive statements, generally don't do it by mis-spelling things.)

It does however make a statement about the person who mis-spelled it.

You don't believe your argument merits serious consideration by intelligent people.
You don't have respect for me.
You don't have respect for your readers.

Dave Winer

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:53:16 GMT

Whew. Close call. I added a bug not a feature. Fixed. I hope.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:18:35 GMT

Elvis: "I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial doing anything my radio advised with every one of those late night stations playing songs bringing tears to me eyes."

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:12:49 GMT

It works for the first time. Bing.

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:35:25 GMT

This morning I'm working on the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool, making it work for non-news-item-oriented Manila sites. My test site is my test site from 1999, when we were bringing Manila online. It's not a news-item-oriented site. But first I'm testing with the original test site, to make sure I haven't broken that connection. One more test. This post should go to my Blogger test site, dave.blogspot.com. Postscript: Everything still works. Whew.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:32:16 GMT

Working on a new going crazy with macros tutorial. It works. What next? Ask Lawrence to try it.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:49:38 GMT

A general comment to people who mis-spell my last name. It's so old that it doesn't have the shock value it used to. There's still a little zing, but then the question comes up -- why did the person do it, and what does it say about the rest of their argument. My last name was given to my grandfather by a random person at Ellis Island. It's also my mother's last name, and many of the people in my family that I care for. That one would mis-spell it doesn't say anything about me or members of my family, other than I have a last name that can be mis-spelled in an insulting way. (It can also be mis-spelled in a nice way, but people who want to make positive statements, generally don't do it by mis-spelling things.) It does however make a statement about the person who mis-spelled it. 1. You don't believe your argument merits serious consideration by intelligent people. 2. You don't have respect for me. 3. You don't have respect for your readers.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:09:26 GMT

Testpost. 1. 2. 3.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:59:35 GMT

Robb and Scoble: Radio UserLand for Webloggers.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:17:55 GMT

Script of the Day (For Chris Pirillo): <%xml.rss.viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/categories/radioUserland/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Radio News", width:50, frameColor:"#000000", titleBarTextColor:"#000000", titleBarColor:"#F5F5F5", boxFillColor:"#FFFFFF", timeZone:"PST", maxitems:10)%> Demo.

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:09:54 GMT

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:53:39 GMT

this is a test with some markup 999

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:43:26 GMT

this is a test with some markup 99

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:42:12 GMT

this is a test with some markup

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:41:28 GMT

This is a test without any markup.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:02:17 GMT

We recall that the Wizzy Editor

Does funny stuff

With carriage

Returns.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:00:40 GMT

This is a test to see if my HTML gets neutered by Manila.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:45:23 GMT

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:59 GMT

If you see this on my Blogger site you'll know that all is well in Manila-Blogger Bridge-Land.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:07:38 GMT

Just made a whole bunch of changes after Lawrence and Jake reviewed the new tool. 1. 2.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:41:30 GMT

I'm doing the final checkout of the Manila-Blogger Bridge tool for Radio 8 before releasing it as a beta. If this works, the data should get initialized but nothing should mirror because the Tool is not enabled. (Good thing I checked that, the post did show up on the test Manila site, because the callback code was not respecting the enabled boolean. It does now. So you should see this on DHRB and not on the Manila site. Testing.) Good that worked now. Next step, enable the mirroring. So now you should see this on both the Manila site and the Radio blog. Testing. 1. 2. 3.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:18:49 GMT

Before I pack it in for the night I want to make sure this still goes to Blogger.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:48:07 GMT

La la la nice lady. 1. 2.

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:16:10 GMT

OK, I have a new implementation for the Manila-Blogger mirror. Now it only updates when I publish, not when I post. Important distinction. Had to add a callback to the rendering process to do this. Will release that part shortly. Am also going to add a callback to posting.

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:19:25 GMT

Back to the Manila-Blogger work. Lalalal. Plalala. P'tahhh.

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:41:52 GMT

<%xml.rss.viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/categories/radioUserland/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Radio News", width:50, frameColor:"#000000", titleBarTextColor:"#000000", titleBarColor:"#F5F5F5", boxFillColor:"#FFFFFF", timeZone:"PST", maxitems:10)%>

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:37:25 GMT

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:37:01 GMT

viewRssBox: "Generate a box containing links to stories derived from an RSS channel."

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:38:29 GMT

Here's a macro for Blogger: The id of my blogger site is <%manilaBloggerBridgeData.sites.bloggerTest.prefs.blogid%>. Now how is a user supposed to know that? I have to figure that out. If you know the answer, send me an email at dave@userland.com. Thanks!

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:36:02 GMT

This post will go to DHRB and my Blogger site. 1.

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:27:23 GMT

O Blogger can U C Me?

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:25:24 GMT

Now I have the UI done. Inbetween phone calls and errand and reviews. I think it works. Hala. We'll see soon enough. Here's a random state just for good luck: <%states.nthstate (random (1, 50))%>.

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:52:47 GMT

OK, I'm starting up again on the Radio-Manila/Blogger connection. This post contains a macro. Hopefully you won't see it on the Manila site. The macro comes here: <%random (1, infinity)%>. You should see a reasonably large random number there. Let's see if it works. OK, it worked. It's a little tricky to process macros on the way out, but I've got it working. Jake and/or Brent will have to review this to make sure the rendering environment is equivalent to the environment used in upstreaming. I'm going to move on to doing the Web page that configures the feature.

Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:46:42 GMT

NewsIsFree supports publish-subscribe. "Now the excellent NewsIsFree network, spearheaded by Mike Krus, a gutsy Frenchman who's always up for something new, includes a element in their RSS feeds and if you subscribe to those feeds, and if you're not behind a firewall or NAT, you can get instant news from those sources, not just at the top of the hour."

Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:46:12 GMT

David Davies has SMS posting to Radio 8. He's taking a plane trip today and testing out the feature. No kidding.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:05:22 GMT

From now until I turn it off all my posts will be mirrored on the Manila site. This is a big feature request. How will I get Radio 8 to work with Manila. And as an extra bonus it should work with services that support the Blogger API, which includes, of course, Manila and Blogger.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:28:41 GMT

If all goes as planned you should see this post in two places -- 1. Dave's Handsome Radio Blog, and 2. the test site we have for Blogger emulation. Let's see if it gets there. Then the next step will be to get changes to percolate to the emulation site.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22:02 GMT

This is a test post..

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:44:15 GMT

To all the new Radio 8 users tonight, here's a piece I wrote early last year that may provide an interesting perspective on the software you're using.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:46:37 GMT

On the other hand Burning Burd has the right idea about UDDI. Off to the glue factory.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:32:58 GMT

Meanwhile Burning Bird is grousing. She thinks this is just like when AOL opened Usenet to all their users. "HI WHAT IS THIS" they typed not knowing there were a lot of mealy mouthed Unix freaks who never bathe watching them take over their Internt. Shelley doesn't know these people. They're geeks. Maybe some of them don't have that much to say. I don't care. But they write code. My COO is going to get the suits to use this stuff. Some of the people who are trying it out tonight are going to write new distributed apps, as in apps that aren't so centralized. The blogging stuff is like MacWrite and MacPaint. If you want developers you gotta have users. Oh that's right I forgot the the old Unix crowd doesn't like users. OK. I do.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:28:24 GMT

I'm really starting to dig this Rogi guy. "Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Weblogs might have to be renamed 'Radio Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Internet' ?"

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:32:59 GMT

Rogi: "As I write Weblogs.Com is full of Radio weblogs! My God, I've never seen anything like it. I assume that the new version of Radio has finally shipped. Go grab it if you like that kind of thing, I hear good reports. (Even if it has swamped weblogs.com for a while :)"

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:29:32 GMT

Yes Steve, I think it would be great if you posted to your weblog regularly. I'm very interested in what you're doing.

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:07:36 GMT

Hey what do you know. We shipped. Damn. Now I'm watching Weblogs.Com and it's just like well it's not like anything I've ever seen. So many friends are showing up. This is so coooool. I love you guys. The community server seems to be handling the load well. Thank you Murphy so far so good.

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:02:30 GMT

Radio 8 essays: Adam Curry, Mark Paschal, Meryl Evans. [Scripting News]

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:01:44 GMT

Lawrence: "Being part of the development of Radio 8.0, it's awesome to see there are going to be lots of people who are going to be playing around with a CMS (at under $40 US) and with an entire weblogging system already in place." [Scripting News]

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:01:24 GMT

Garret: "Dump anything in Radio's www folder, and it's been filed, uploaded, backed up, statically rendered, content managed, diced, chopped, ground, and served on a platter." [Scripting News]

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:00:44 GMT

Dan Shafer: My First Review of Radio 8. [Scripting News]

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:36:56 GMT

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:45:20 GMT

XML.Com: Web Services Acronyms Demystified. "More than twenty acronyms related to Web services came to light during 2001, and in this article I present a quick guide to the protocols and the specifications behind them, including a description of how they relate to each other and where each sits on the Web services landscape."

This reminds me of clubs with secret handshakes. To get in the club you have to memorize the proper incantations. In software such clubs are always lonely places. Busy developers don't have time.

"the pope"

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:12:04 GMT

NY Times: "Amid a general surge in patent activity, IBM was granted 3,411 patents by the USPTO last year, the first time any company collected more than 3,000 in a single year."

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:10:54 GMT

Two years ago today AOL merged with Time-Warner.

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:56:56 GMT

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:00:58 GMT

Dave Jacobs on the phone. "Oh no not again," he says. He watched the Gates video, they did 802.11a detachable screen thing, and a second product, a wireless remote control, which is running Windows XP, which is kind of a mindbomb. Microsoft promises the vision we outlined in the Apple piece. The screen is also running XP. 802.11a is fast enough for video. Key point. He calls the new iMac a Cube with a haircut. "I want one," he says. "It's a beautiful design."

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:00:21 GMT

I'm mocking up my site for some screen shots. Please excuse the dust.

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:29:25 GMT

JD Net: Description d'un client XML-RPC en Php.

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:32:28 GMT

Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Fat protocols slow Web services. To form an opinion on this you'd have to have an application in mind and then do some performance comparisons under realistic loads. My intuition says it doesn't matter much how fat XML is for protocols -- the Internet and LANs have scaled to push around lots of images and MP3s, which are huge compared to a SOAP or XML-RPC message.

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:37:23 GMT

I am using <%if system.environment.isMac {return ("the Finder")} else {return ("Windows Explorer")}%> as my file system browser.

Sun, 06 Jan 2002 20:01:11 GMT

<%frameIt ("I have a feeling that you'll be seeing a bunch of stuff in frames from Radio 7.1 betas in the next few hours.", "purple", "honeydew")%>

Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:44:56 GMT

A preview of my next going-crazy tutorial. This one isn't as crazy as the last one. What can I do about that? Some days I'm not so crazy as others.

Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:40:18 GMT

"Scripting News" is full today, what with the awards and other stuff, so I thought I'd ask this question over here. What's up with MIME-RPC that it has to be so condescending to XML-RPC to make his idea fly? Hmmmm. Here's the deal. MIME-RPC goes over transports other than HTTP. That in itself is a good thing. I suppose there are some other advantages, but they're hidden amid the bluster and hype.

Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:37:54 GMT

We just installed Frontier 7.1b38 on the community server for Radio 7.1 users. That's a vote of confidence, I suppose. Wish us luck. I hope the new version is 24-by-7. If not, we'll find out now.

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:29:06 GMT

Paul Boutin: "After surviving the switch to Mac OS X, I decided to risk upgrading my PC, too."

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:24:52 GMT

DaveNet: Bet on the iDock.

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:23:21 GMT

Andrew Orlowski: "Apple is laying down quite a cynical challenge to its most loyal users: either trust us and go with us, or beetle off."

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:12:23 GMT

Jake's quotes from Any Given Sunday.

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:12:04 GMT

Fairvue Central: "Welcome to the 2002 Weblog Awards. I'm Nikolai Nolan, and I'll be your host, again."

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:11:35 GMT

MIME-RPC: "Because sending simple stuff should be easy and sending complex stuff should be easy too."

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:11:04 GMT

Rick Adams on a patent for a "multi-threaded name server."

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:58:07 GMT

Brian Hughes: "The MSIE problem is actually worse that it appears. Not only does it refuse to release the processor in any kind of cooperative manner, you can actually run into a situation where it will lock up your whole machine."

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:57:48 GMT

Mark Pilgrim has been geeking around with Manila and RSS.

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:57:19 GMT

News.Com: Doubt cast over Web standard's ownership.