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Friday, February 27, 2004

I love RSS I've found a bug in the ENT 1.0 module driver for RSS topics included in enhancedAggregator's first release.

The fix involved splitting the module handling code between the cloud script, which compiles ent:topic elements into a table inside each item of the subscribed RSS 2.0 service's compilation table, and a new storyArrived callback script, responsible for storing the compiled topics inside the aggregator's stories table, the base upon which Radio creates its desktop website News page.

This appears to be the correct way to support an RSS 2.0 module in Radio, conforming to the way the main content aggregator is designed. Unfortunately, the storyArrived callback script cannot have access to the module's item level compiled elements, due to the way the xml.rss.compileService script is currently coded. I hope a fix, or an alternate way of implementing the module driver, will soon be released by Userland.

Current users of the enhancedAggregator tool should update their copy, by either clicking the update link in Radio's desktop home page status center, or selecting the enhancedAggregator/update menu option in the Radio application, or simply downloading the new version.

I've received a fair number of inquiries about the tool's inner working, I'll try to come up with a visitor's guide to the code over the week-end, to supplement the current guidelines.

Developers who wish to publish their own updates to the enhancedAggregator project should contact me to retrieve the host address and port number of the project's webEdit server, as well as their username and password. If they haven't done so already, they can activate the webEdit client in their copy of Radio by running the enhancedAggregatorSuite.webEdit.activate script.

Given the current proliferation of RSS modules, I hope the enhancedAggregator will soon become a repository of drivers, allowing Radio users to experiment with the latest trends in Web content syndication.

10:27:01 AM - See Also: Blog Aggregator | ENT 1.0 | ESF | Radio Userland | RSS 2.0

In Brief

Karen Kwiatkowski: I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president.

Fascinating eye-witness piece published by Salon.com.

3/11/04 - 9:40 am GMT - [guid]

Dave Winer: I'd like to make a constructive offer to the people who are working on Atom.

And before stating the offer, let me say that I am open to counter-offers.

3/9/04 - 10:55 am GMT - [guid]

Albert Delgado: I think Userland has the more important job of updating its products, from the kernel on out.

Atom support is secondary at this time.

3/8/04 - 11:38 am GMT - [guid]

Philip Miseldine: So, what I'm thinking is, why not provide a stylesheet (XSLT or something else, perhaps) that tells the aggregator how to consume your feed to produce descriptions.

3/8/04 - 11:35 am GMT - [guid]

Davenet: A Bright Future for Syndication.

Editor's note: check the publication date, and the file name in the url :-).

3/6/04 - 11:57 am GMT - [guid]

Amit Singh: Mac OS X is perhaps one of the best examples of how a capable system can result through the direct or indirect efforts of corporations, academic and research communities, the Open Source and Free Software movements, and even individuals.

3/6/04 - 11:10 am GMT - [guid]

how this works

activeRenderer News

Release delayed

I've run into unexpected problems when readying the next 2.1.1 minor update of activeRenderer: I'm overhauling the installation / uninstallation process to go along with the newly implemented outlining styles for weblog categories, and it's an even worse nightmare than I thought it would be :-)

I should have finished the testing by Friday though, Murphy willing...

3/17/04 - 6:13 pm GMT - [guid]

Gallery: Gerald Gleason

[image] [image] This week's featured publisher, Gerald Gleason, doesn't use Radio Userland to publish his weblog. He doesn't use Movable Type either. Yet, look at the navigation lighthouse that forms the left side of the page: you'll recognize a familiar outline structure, with a nautical twist :-)

[image] Gerald has put activeRenderer's javascript code to work, and produced wonderful looking 'nautical' replacements for the 'standard' outline wedges.

[image] With his authorisation, I'll soon include those picts as part of a 'nautical' style for outline wedges. Alternate sets of wedges with specific styles are scheduled to show up in the next 2.2 version of activeRenderer.

3/15/04 - 12:37 pm GMT - [guid]

Mailing Lists

There are currently 3 mailing lists / Yahoo groups devoted to the activeRenderer Radio tool, quite a lot really :-)

ar-announce is a slow traffic, read only list where I announce all updates to activeRenderer. All release messages include a description of new features, enumeration of fixed bugs, and a list of updated parts. Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe.
ar-support is a moderately active discussion forum to discuss all installation issues, report potential bugs, request new features and so on. Scan its archive when trying to solve a problem, there's a good chance it was already reported, and maybe even solved :-). Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe.
ar-devel is a moderated list for developers interested in contributing code to the tool, or porting its features to other environments via the activeRenderer API.. Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe.

I check all mailing lists on a daily basis, even when not working on the activeRenderer project: they are my main channel of feedback information, together with the feedback link in included in all pages of the activeRenderer site.

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