Thursday, February 14, 2002

RadioService v0.9a2 is available for download. Post from pasteboard via Dock Menu works (for non-services aware apps) automatically open radio desktop and edits new post (can be disabled via preferences) can automatically fire any URL you want after successful post major code refactoring; cleaner implementation, but still far from ideal rewrote README, now includes Radio configuration instructions README can be accessed from in app by selecting 'RadioServices Help' menu item. There is still a bug where RadioServices will work correctly for the first post when the post request caused the app to launch. Every post after that works, though. Not sure what is up with that. The next step is to get remote posting to work. 12:55:40 PM

Speaking of archives... my CVS archives go back 10+ years. There is some bad, bad code lurking in there. Funny, though, the screensavers I wrote in 1990 for NeXTSTEP on a B&W machine compiled on OS X with only a few minor changes and looked great in fully anti-aliased color. 12:20:47 AM

Fixed a problem with the commit mentioned earlier. It is really committed now. 12:18:34 AM

In the day after the release of RadioServices, I have been amazed at the response. It seems that most folks with a single desktop Radio based installation have had no problem. There hasn't been much feedback outside the Radio community, but there hasn't been any attempt to push it beyond Radio (since it was created to solve an immediate need I had with Radio). Some of the most frequently asked questions and answers (from someone whose knowledge of Radio is fairly shallow). Most all of the links assume Radio is running on the local desktop. How should Radio be configured to work with RadioServices (or apps such as BlogApp)? You need to make sure that the XML-RPC interface is enabled. Then, enable the the Blogger API. When RadioService asks for my password, which do I use? On this page, you will find a list of Radio password. Likely only one labeled default. Whatever that password is, that is the one you want to use. If you happen to have forgotten it (I did-- you create it when you first download Radio, 30 days before the $40 commitment decision), go to the Setup page and use the Forget your usernum and password? form to have your password sent to you. Does RadioService work with remote Radio applications? At the moment, likely only if you turn off all secuirty and enable full remote access. Obviously, a less than ideal situation. I have to figure out how to deal with the authentication issue from the XML-RPC engine in AppleScript (if possible). If not, I'll toss AppleScript and use Java instead. Will RadioService work with non-Radio based systems? Sure. Absolutely. Because I have never tried it, I can say with complete and utter confidence that it will work just fine because it is all about standards and nothing but standards. It should work fine save for the whole HTTP authentication stuff. 12:13:47 AM