Radio UserLand, RSS, Weblog Tools and Design
Monday, February 16, 2004New User Guide For Radio UserLand
This is a great start. Hope it is followed by bug fixes and new features.
New Radio User Guide. You can now find a new organization for Radio UserLand documentation in the Radio UserLand User Guide. Scott Shuda announces the new Guide. [UserLand Product News]
Aggregator Scripts To Review
Re: news aggregator. If everything else seems to be working and you just can seem to make the aggregator run hourly you could set up a script say in the workspace table whose contents are:
xml.aggregator.readAllServices()
name this script. kickStartAggregator Now the script is at workspace.kickStartAggregator
Run the following line in the QuickScript window
user.scheduler.hourly.runAggregator = @workspace.kickStartAggregator
That should put an hourly schedule into play that will run the aggregator. Not perfect but it should work.
Andy [Radio UserLand Messages]
Configuring FTP in Radio
FTP option. The FTP option preferences page in Radio allows you to upstream your weblog through FTP to another server.
Settings
User name -- May be case-sensitive on some servers.
Password -- The password for your FTP account.
Server -- IP address or hostname of FTP server.
Path -- It can be an absolute path from the root directory eg. "/usr/www/users/mydocs/workspace/" or a relative path from your home directory eg. "~/public_html/workspace/".
Using an FTP client, you can find the path to your directory by finding the folder you want to publish to and typing "PWD" which asks the server to tell you which directory you are in.
The path requires a trailing slash and may be case-sensitive on some servers.
URL -- URL where the contents of the FTP directory can be viewed over the Web (eg. "http://www.yourdomain.com/weblog/").
The URL requires a trailing slash and may be case-sensitive on some servers.
Passive/active mode -- If you need to use active mode for FTP transfers, you can uncheck the "use passive mode" box.
Links
FTP upstreaming Events Log page error messages
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What to do after a 10060 time out error
Re: What to do after a 10060 time out error. I found the wrong answer before I found the correct one, or at least one that worked better than the first thing I tried :) And I think the answer is, "touch" all the files to update the date/time and then do a QuickScript (Ctrl + ;) with:
radio.upstream.folderNeedsScan(user.radio.prefs.wwwfolder + "images" + file.getPathChar ())
I looks like this will cause Radio to rescan the images folder where I had dropped my files. I think I still needed to "touch" the files to change the date/time before Radio would upstream. I'm not certain as I initially did some other upstream verbs that tried to upstream the complete images tree rather than just the files I wanted to upstream.
I will try to remember to do this again the next time this happens and figure whether I can get away with just "touch"ing the subfolder to see if that will upstream all the files in that folder (I doubt it), or if I have to do a batch "touch" and get all the individual file date/times changed.
Sounds like a good opportunity for me to write some code to prompt for a folder, touch all the files in that folder to update the date/time, and then call the folderNeedsScan() verb to automagically retry the upstream of that folder.
Rod [Radio UserLand Messages]
Thoughts on choosing a news aggregator.
“After months of resistance I set up a news aggregator today: FeedDemon. I also checked out sharpreader, newzcrawler, and awasu. I picked FeedDemon because its UI was the easiest to use after 3 minutes’ evaluation.”
Finally got Paul learning about RSS and he is trying out aggregators, too.
[Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]FeedDemon Tutorial
The FeedDemon tutorial shows you how to create categories and add feeds. The same concept can apply to most aggregators. Thanks, Nick, for his help and an easy-to-use feed reader.
[Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]