Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

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I'm still waiting for my outliner

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:23:24 GMT

Okay today's notes go here..

1. The next feature I need is the ability to save a post in an outline, and re-open it for editing. It's not as easy as one might think, or as straightforward. There are two bits of information that go along with each outline -- the name of the site it's going to, and the post id. However if it's going to the local Radio site, which is an assumption we're willing to make for now, that's just one bit of data to keep around. So where do we keep it? Ahhh that's the beeeg question.

We could attach it as an attribute to the first headline in the outline, but that sucks because what if the user deletes that headline. And how would we set the window type. I think we have to keep the outline in an object database, not the file system. Okay, so if we have to do that, which database? Well, that could be weblogData.root. I like that the best. I certainly don't like creating new databases willy-nilly.

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:29:52 GMT

Don Park: What I like the most about Radio is that Radio is dynamically updateble and extensible. As Dave Winer and UserLand staff evolve Radio day by day, my version walks in step. Radio third party software developers have also started to do the same. For example, Marc Barrot's activeRender tool, used here, is updated each time I fire up Radio. Both Microsoft and Sun has a lot to learn from Radio. Only if Java and .NET had similar capabilities...

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Sat, 09 Nov 2002 12:25:17 GMT

This is a test post.

Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:13:33 GMT

Is the cloud working this morning??

Today's work outline for Dave

Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:55:14 GMT

Good morning

Today we're going to release a new XML-RPC interface for UserLand's aggregator. That's what all the meta-teasing is about on Scripting News.

I'm also going to do some work every day on the weblog outliner to move it towards release. My target now is to get it working for editing my Radio weblog first, smoothly, and have it work in a bit of a funky way with Movable Type. I'm choosing that route because I can work in the environment here, and I can't in MT. Funky is good, it's better than nothing, and it may identify the issues we can work on with the MT people.

A test for Adam's usage model

Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:52:58 GMT

This is a document for Adam Curry

He just uses Radio for his weblog, but he wants to write in the outliner that's built into Radio.

Now that you mention it, there probably are a few people in the same boat.

So let's get this to work for them first.

For everyone but Adam..

I've got an outline open in Radio. When I save the outline, it flows out through the MetaWeblog API to weblogData.root, and through the publishing system out to Dave's Handsome Radio Blog. I could just have easily blogged the World Series or Last night's election results using Radio as the presentation platform. I was using (and still could use) Movable Type.

Now this is giving me ideas, good ones, for user interface. Thanks to Adam for prodding me. I always need a good "first user" to think of when designing a bit of user interface functionality.

For the Pope if he happens to be tuned in

Congratulations on a long papacy.

And many happy returns!

I gotta prove to myself

That this works. It was pretty darned easy.

And here's the cute trick. It works with the Manila-Blogger-Bridge Tool.

P'tahhhh!

Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:16:53 GMT

Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:04:14 GMT

New feature: Mail-From-Aggregator. "Some people like to read the news that the aggregator gathers in email. This can be useful if you travel a lot, or want to share news with a group of people who may not use Radio."

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Sun, 03 Nov 2002 23:57:35 GMT

Microsoft's New Set of Hurdles. A federal judge's ruling rejecting strong sanctions against Microsoft, means the company will not have to change its ways much. By Steve Lohr.

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