Monday, January 14, 2002

Radio UserLand 8.0 Upgrade complete! Here are my observations and feature suggestions in no particular order:

1. The upgrade journey is not as smooth as the new install journey! It would be nice to have this as part of the browser ui instead of invoking scripts but upgrading wasn't a problem for me! However for a non-computer person, the upgrade would not be a less than an hour job and probably would be painful.

2. The glossary now works! glossSub Rocks! Feature request: provide a browser based interface to edit it.

3. Permalinks for each news item rocks!

4. Still having problems with FTP. The only time I have ever got FTP to work is when FTPing to a HP-UX box at my last job. Trying to FTP to the War FTP daemon or to all the other Windows FTP daemons, I have tried has never worked. Anybody know of a solid FTP daemon (for less than $100) for Windows NT? If so, please email me atrtanglao@telus.net

   So because I have problems with FTP, I am using the archive feature which seems to me to be very convoluted. Basically the flow is:
   Windows NT Radio Working directory -> Userland Cloud -> Windows NT Apache webserver directory i.e. major kludge! If I could FTP to work then I could switch to Mac OS X and have the flow be:

   
   Mac OS X FTP to Windows NT

   
   Maybe the solution is to "upgrade" my Windows box to Linux :-) ?

5. Stories are cool, but it would be nice to have a way to edit them remotely. Consider this a feature request. For now, I can use Emacs or BBedit to edit the file directly on my Windows NT box.

6. Feature Request: Please re-add the "force archive" option back to the browser interface. This is the kind of thing you definitely want to do remotely. Hmmm maybe I should investigate if there is an XML-RPC function for this and do it myself!

7. Feature Request: allow Radio to be a webserver at port 80 without going through the admin screen and requiring a password. This is how it used to work in 7.01. Admin stuff required a password but all other pages were served up like a normal web server without a password. I guess this was removed to promote Frontier as the heavy weight server, but I think most people would run Apache, IIS or something else for heavy weight serving rather than Radio Userland so this concern is misplaced!

Needless to say, great work Userland! I shall be ordering my copy Radio Userland tomorrow when I get up tomorrow!
:: 9:52:58 PM       ::

Here are two places to watch for the birth of new Radio Userland themes:

• Garret's Theme factory
• Garret's message asking for theme requirements together with my reply

Go Garret, go!
:: 9:24:32 PM       ::

Barb and I spend so much time Lindy Hopping that we see only a handful of movies a year (with the exception of Christmas and the Vancouver Film Festival). On Friday, however, we made an exception and checked out Amélie and it was fabulous. Madcap, childlike (in a good way), and crazy!
:: 8:40:07 PM       ::

Frankston: The Tragedy of the .Coms - summary: DNS must be decoupled from actual names! Just as it's possible to have two Roland Tanglao's in the world yet disambiguate them, it should be possible to have two different Roland Tanglao's in the Internet
:: 8:21:16 PM       ::

Via : Comments from Frankston, Bricklin, Reed, and Friends
:: 8:00:55 PM       ::

OK, I give up! I've got better things to do than play web designer! I need to look for a job! Learned alot anyway! Now that Garret is on the case, I'm sure there will be some cool themes real soon now!
:: 4:02:00 PM       ::

I am now "renovating" this site to use a 2 column CSS layout ala Garret.  Out with tables, soon!

I am still looking for employment! The links to my resume, wedding, photos, etc. still work and they will reappear here when I finish my layout.   For now if you are interested in me, please check out my resume.

:: 11:52:24 AM       ::