« Instant Outline Buddies: Not Just Personal Outlines »

Aha!  After reading Dave's article "Google, directories, and OPML", I had a wild idea.  I went to the soapware.org Implementation page, and thought, "Hmmm, what if I try to subscribe to the OPML file behind this page?".  So I clicked on the XML button, which brought me to http://services.soaplite.com/toolkits.opml (on Paul Kuchenko's site).  In Radio, I went to Radio/Outliner/Subscribe to Outline..., entered the URL, and voila, I have a new entry in my Buddies list.  Now, since this outline does participate in weblogs.com pinging, I'm not sure if I will get notified when the Paul updates the file, but if so, this is really cool.  (If I don't get notified, it will still be cool, just not really cool.  ;-)

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« Radio Community Server for Python »

The source code is out!.

Right - the private alpha test went OK, so without further ado:

PyCS is now open source

The license used is the MIT license; you can do pretty much what you like with the code as long as you don't pretend that you wrote it yourself.  See the LICENSE file for details.

[Python Community Server - notes and explanations]

Pretty neat, now there's the possibility of running RCS on a Linux machine (such as my home server, or the file server at work).

Still waiting to see what happens with good client-side Radio tools (e.g., outline editors) that run on Linux.  Given a good implementation of the latter, it would also be neat to be able to develop UserTalk code and browse/edit the Radio object database in an external editor.  I can imagine that being possible via SOAP, if the editor has a SOAP client and Radio exposes the appropriate interfaces.

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