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serious Radio Poster reworking
I've seriously reworked Radio Poster. I got tired of its hacked way of handling XML-RPC, so I wrote a library that sits on top of my XML parser. It can build method calls and parse the results. That makes the code a lot simpler and now I'll be able to handle other XML-RPC calls. I plan to add querying the server for blogid's and categories, and I want to support getting posts from the server as well. Things would have quickly gotten to be a mess if I didn't have a unified XML-RPC library to handle all of that.
Radio Poster also now supports both the MetaWeblog API and the Blogger API. I can post to my Radio weblog with either (although I like the MetaWeblog API better, of course) and I can post to my Movable Type weblog as well (that one is a secret, sorry :) ). I've even got a test Blogger weblog and Radio Poster works with that as well. The support for all of those kinds of weblogs isn't right yet. Ideally I would have a list of weblogs you could post to. You would add all of your weblogs to the list and configure each. Then you'd hit a button and Radio Poster would query that server to get stuff like categories and blogid. Then you could start a new post by double-clicking on a weblog in the list. Your post window would already be configured correctly. But I don't have any of that working, of course, so for now you'll probably only really use Radio Poster with one weblog. You'll set that as the default with the default checkbox and all new windows you open will have that default server info.
10:42:52 PM #
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another blogger test, just to be sure
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That last post...
was from Radio Poster 1.1 using the Blogger API, rather than the MetaWeblog API. Pretty cool, eh? The problem with the Blogger API is that there is no way to specify title and link. There is also no way to specify categories. The MetaWeblog API is really the better API. I'm hoping all weblog servers support it eventually. Movable Type says they are going to support it in the next release.
7:17:00 PM #
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It's Official
I just did a Radio update and I see that the Blogger API is now fixed along with the MetaWeblog API. That means that Radio will correctly upstream archive files when you post with either of these APIs. Thanks UserLand.
1:51:47 PM #
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It works!
My last post got upstreamed correctly. Very cool. Thank you UserLand. I guess I needed to be more patient. It's not like they can drop everything and fix every little problem I have :)
12:59:41 PM #
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Hallelujah
UserLand is working on a fix to the MetaWeblog API bug. Dave posted the fix they have to the Radio discussion group and I'm trying it out right now. I've got it running on my copy of Radio and this post will test whether it works. I'm betting it does, though, because what used to be the test server at UserLand is now running NYTimes headlines through the MetaWeblog API and it works fine.
Well, here goes nothing :)
12:57:06 PM #
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Adam and Eve, Childbirth and Salad
Earlier I asked about God and childbirth. It turns out childbirth is mentioned in the Bible:
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." ["Bible on he Web"]
That's God talking to Eve after she and Adam ate the fruit God told them not eat. Men are punished as well:
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
So men are punished with having to eat salad and bread. Women get that pain-during-childbirth thing.
11:24:33 AM #
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Last Night on Six Feet Under
Last night's episode of Six Feet Under was the anniversary of the first episode, in which the father of the family is killed on his way to pick up Nate, his son, at the airport. He is driving the family hearse, by the way, which is cute twist. Anyway, each of the family members remembers a moment of the day on which the father dies. Nate David remembers his father asking him to sit down and relax a bit but David is busy preparing a body. The mother remembers telling the father to hurry up and get to the airport to pick up Nate. Claire remembers turning down her father's invitation to go with him (and it's a good thing she did).
It was only later that I realized that these weren't just any moments. These were the last moments that each saw the father alive. I probably ought to go back and see the episode again with this new understanding. It adds a poignancy to the whole thing.
10:45:09 AM #
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ResPloder announced
I just announced ResPloder to the REALbasic mailing list. Let's see if anybody is interested. It's a quite little app and somebody might find a use for it.
7:04:17 AM #
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Will Leshner.
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4/22/02; 12:57:10 PM.
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