Friday, January 31, 2003
what a cool community

After I announced to the Radio-Dev list that I want feedback, Andy Fragen suggested I use his installCodeFreshener tool.

What a cool tool it is. I rolled my own code freshener scripts by hand for the Python IDE, but Andy's code kicks ass.

Look into it.

8:42:47 PM    comments ()  trackback []  

even more bugs

It's becoming clear to me that I need to do more (or less) text processing to make all of this work more reliably.

9:57:07 AM    comments ()  trackback []  
damn bugs

Found a bug. Sending a bare #get retrieves the first post rather than the last post. Definitely undesireable, since that makes you have to guess what the last post's id is.

I have work to do, I guess.

9:54:27 AM    comments ()  trackback []  

spill the beans

I suppose I should be more explicit about what I've been testing here. I've long used the Mail-To-Weblog feature of Radio to post to my Radio blog, but I've been frustrated by my inability to correct misspellings or inaccuracies, or to reword badly written posts.

So I wrote a tool that allows my to do that. I call it MailEdit, and you can download the alpha version here.

It installs a callback in the Mail-To-Weblog code, and allows me to do things like add titles, do category routing, and edit posts. I'm using it right now, in fact.

It is not yet code complete. I plan to add the ability to attach pictures to your messages and have them appear in your blog. But that's all that's left, unless someone else has a feature that they'd really like to suggest.

If you're curious, download it and play with it. I'd certainly like some feedback about it.

For documentation, go to the MailEdit tool page by clicking on "tools" in your Radio website, and then click on "MailEdit". All configuration and documentation should be accessable there.

9:39:57 AM    comments ()  trackback []