What I wanted

http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/project1
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/project2
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/project3
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/group1
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/group2
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/topic1
http://intranet.company.com/weblogs/dave/topic2
...

Each url above pointing to a complete site, with associated rss feed.

Me using Radio to route posts to the sites by selecting categories on the Radio "home page"

I also wanted a radio.weblogs.com/..usernum../ site, so I could share my experiences with the world.

But I did not want all posts going to the public site.

What I did

I also created the category weblogs.com (for posts to route to the public site), also set to render in HTML.

I created a post for each category, using the POST button so that they would not be upstreamed, but the files would be created on my local disk.

Since I initially enabled upstreaming to the cloud using the prefs pages, I copied www/#upstream.xml to www/categories/weblogs.com/#upstream.xml - I also copied all of the template files from www to www/categories/weblogs.com/, so I could use my own templates for all of the other sites.

I edited #homeTemplate.txt in the weblogs.com category, replacing the call to radio.macros.weblogUrl and siteName with hard-coded values.

Next, I set www/#upstream.xml to type "none". Then I created "ftp" type #upstream.xml files in each of the category directories.

Finally, I edited the templates in www to make them look more like the corporate templates. I left in the Radio badge and the rssLink, but took out the call to radio.macros.staticSiteStatsImage.

Then things got interesting. I opened the Radio app, and selected Radio->Publish->Entire website, but only the rss.xml files for the categories were upstreamed to the ftp sites.

Lawrence Lee suggested I POST&PUBLISH a post to all categories, and everything fell into place.

oddities

I didn't do it in exactly the order above, but close enough for gov't work ":->"

-dave  11:46:28 PM    

Put the following line of code into a file named memdefrag.vbs

Mystring = Space(80000000)

(you may need to play with the number. start with 16000000 and work up)  3:46:25 PM    

A good tester has these qualities:

• methodical and systematic.
• tactful and diplomatic (but firm when necessary).
• skeptical, especially about assumptions, and wants to see concrete evidence.
• able to notice and pursue odd details.
• good written and verbal skills (for explaining bugs clearly and concisely).
• a knack for anticipating what others are likely to misunderstand. (This is useful both in finding bugs and writing bug reports.)
• a willingness to get one’s hands dirty, to experiment, to try something to see what happens.

From "Classic Testing Mistakes", Brian Marick, Testing Foundations, marick@testing.com ; 3:29:04 PM    

I'm starting to set up my Radio categories to create a set of K-Logs at work. I'm fairly certain that most folks at work will not use the rss feeds to follow the sites, and those that do will use some headline viewer other than Radio.

If Radio could be extended to support custom installs - run the Foo Inc radio installer and get the Foo Inc templates and macros, the Foo Inc default subscription list, register with and ping to the Foo Inc cloud, and get updates of radio.root from the Foo Inc server - then it might be easier to sell Radio to the corporations.

Heck, bundle it with the pre-configured Foo Inc Frontier server . . .   9:27:37 AM    

I'm using Opera 6.0 on Win2K as my main browser. I set the zoom level to 150%, with fully-maximized page windows, and use C-TAB to switch between them. I like the fact that when I shift-click on a link, the new window has the same properties as the one in which I clicked.

I'm a keyboard-shortcut junkie (I guess it comes from 17 years as an emacs user :-), and barely use the mouse. Opera works really well from the kbd.

But I do go to the mouse (Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel, no current link) to use the wheel. I use it for scrolling docs (except Acrobat, where it does not work), and also for zooming (hold down Control, and the zoom changes!)

I'm also using Control Center, from Stardock. But sometimes it blocks (does not switch windows) if something is busy. Anyone know of a good virtual-desktop util for win2k?  1:06:30 AM