Jeff Cheney: Radio

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:30:47 GMT

Steve Kirks: Via Patrick and Jeff I'm reminded of Radio's birthday. Happy birthday to my favorite piece of software! Thanks to all at UserLand back in 2001 when Radio shipped. Those must have been great times...
[house of warwick]

Writing with Markdown

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:53:08 GMT

Steve Kirks: John Gruber, author of Markdown has been working with me behind the scenes to come up with an appropriate version of Markdown for Radio UserLand webloggers. We concluded months ago that a UserTalk port of the Markdown Perl script was in order. Marc Barrot of activeRenderer fame has spent the last three weeks doing the port in his spare time -- no small feat considering he's a new father, too. I installed the private beta tool today and it's wonderful. The port is a work of UserTalk art following the spirit of John's Perl script beautifully. We need to add a web interface for prefs and some links back to John's site for help with the syntax and more...
[house of warwick]

UserLand Transport Layer Security

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:57:22 GMT

Scott Young: I am really pleased to be able to announce this publicly. The mandatory press release is out. I would like to thank Seth Dillingham for working on this with us and for supplying his own quote. ;-) This capability gives us a great way to secure the whole range of communication between the client and the server including the RSS feeds. We set up a web site that has all the details at tls.userland.com.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Radio 8.1 RELEASED

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:56:57 GMT

Scott Young: Radio UserLand 8.1 has been released and a new installer is available for download for new users. This includes all the latest changes since the last 8.0.8 release. Thanks to Steve Kirks, Patrick Richie, and Lawrence Lee for all the hard work Great work. If you are an existing user, you just need to update Radio.root to receive the latest updates including the most recent changes released in September. This is great.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Radio 8.1 comes tonight

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:06:55 GMT

Steve Kirks: Radio 8.1 is coming tonight. Make sure Radio is set to pick up root updates and you'll get the changes. Special thanks to Patrick Ritchie, Lawrence Lee and the beta testers on the radio-dev email list for helping us pull this release together. There's more to come in the next couple of weeks including comment and trackback deletion plus upstreaming improvements.
[house of warwick]

Radio 8.1 Beta Testers Needed

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:25:24 GMT

Scott Young: We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, and we'd like your help testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Radio 8.1 Pre-Release

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:04:52 GMT

Scott Young: The first new version of Radio in a while will be released the third week of September. This version has some great things in it - all based on requests from users. Steve Kirks lists what that made it into the 8.1 release and what didn't make it in this post. Radio was so far ahead of its time when it was originally released and its still the best complete personal blogging package for those of us that like the integrated RSS aggregator among many other things. Hats off to Steve Kirks and Patrick Richie for making this happen.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Radio 8.1 is in the can.

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:05:44 GMT

Steve Kirks: I'm sure you noticed the title of this post and that means that Radio has a new version number. Radio is moving to version 8.1 with this release, indicative of the volume of changes made since the last official release. It's also a clear signal that Radio development at UserLand is moving forward. Here's the list of what made it to beta testing...
[house of warwick]

Link blog?

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:19:03 GMT

Pat Ritchie: A recent post by Simon Willison got me thinking that I should really start a link blog. I have often run into the problem where I see all kinds of interesting posts in my aggregator, but then don't have time to read them. Sometimes I go back and read them, but very often they get lost as a new crop of posts come in. Publishing a link blog would allow me to archive these posts, so I could easily refer back to them. Radio's categories should be perfect for this, stay tuned.
[the power of 0ne]

Atom 0.3 Support for Manila and Radio UserLand News Aggregators

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:32:37 GMT

Scott Young: Yes, its here -- Atom support. It will be interesting to see how people react to UserLand's support of Atom. I hope most everyone will be pleased -- especially those who had requested support. We just released a beta version of the format driver supporting Atom 0.3 today. The beta format driver will be out on the manila-dev and radio-dev mail lists. Download it, follow the instructions, and let us know if you run into any issues or problems. The dev sites will have instructions on posting comments. Enjoy.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Radio-licious

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:02:31 GMT

Jenny Levine: I investigated alternative solutions, but when you're an RSS junkie like me, the integration of an aggregator into the blogging tool is much more efficient than anything else that's out there. I was shocked that I couldn't find any other product that duplicates this functionality so seamlessly. Sure, I could have tried to jerry-rig something, but I couldn't emulate the one-click-post-from-the-aggregator functionality that is the single best evolutionary feature of Radio...
[The Shifted Librarian]

Brushed Adamant for Radio

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:35:48 GMT

Steve Kirks: I've been sitting on a Radio theme for a few days, so I thought I'd let it out. Bryan Bell's Brushed Adamant converted to Radio use by me. Enjoy.
[house of warwick]

News Aggregator layout alternative

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:32:07 GMT

Steve Kirks: Patrick Ritchie has an alternate News Aggregator layout brewing. It's better than mine, using XHTML div statements to mimick the original layout done with tables. I put it on my test system and I like it much better than my alternative mentioned Tuesday. If you are a web developer working on Radio themes and want to help decide the standard structure and classes for Radio's XHTML, now is the time to contribute...
[house of warwick]

Peter Breuls asks about News Aggregator Changes

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:48:39 GMT

Steve Kirks: Peter Breuls writes a short post about Radio features he'd like to see. I found it after reading his post in Radio's aggregator, then I found the original here. He asks some valid questions, some of which are easier to answer than others...
[house of warwick]

Steve Kirks, Product Manager for Radio

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:14:19 GMT

Steve Kirks: It's official — Radio has a future. Take a moment to read the press release and the letter to Radio users. Follow our progress at http://steve.userland.com/.
[house of warwick]

Radio Weblog Calendar Bug

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:59:30 GMT

This entry was manually inserted into my weblogData.posts to fix a Radio Weblog Calendar Bug well described by David Phillips (a.k.a. Tweezerman, defender of Rhye angel of the Radio Discussion Group).

New Radio User Guide

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:09:13 GMT

Scott Shuda: You can now find a new organization for Radio UserLand documentation in the Radio UserLand User Guide.
[UserLand Product News]

Rogers Cadenhead interview about Radio UserLand

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:13:25 GMT

Lawrence Lee: Rogers Cadenhead was interviewed by the Network Professional Association about Radio UserLand and his new book Radio UserLand Kick Start.
[UserLand Product News]

Adding dates to Radio page titles

Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:37:39 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: Radio UserLand tip: To add a date to the title of each daily archive page, add the following UserTalk code inside the title tag of the home page template (#homeTemplate.txt):

[Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "radioResponder".]

This code will be replaced with the date in the form "Monday, June 30, 2003" (example).
[Workbench]

Radio is finally working again

Mon, 26 May 2003 21:45:06 GMT

Tom Clifton: I am not completely certain what I did to fix the problem, but Radio is finally working the way it should. For the last month, I had to restart Radio to get any file streamed up. I believe the problem was caused by one or more bad (erroneous) paths stored in radio.root... [Fluid Flow]

Radio hackers becoming hacked off

Mon, 26 May 2003 20:51:51 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: Some Radio UserLand hackers are becoming discouraged by the sheer weight of the program's UserTalk code and the bugs, quirks, and complexities it contains. Mark Paschal, who offers help frequently on the customer support discussion board, says that it is "as jury-rigged a Rube Goldberg device as ever." Jeremy Bowers believes it need a "serious housecleaning"...
[Workbench]

Thanks to Rogers for providing a voice of balance and reason. It's always easier to be critical than it is to appreciate what we have.

Opportunity

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:12:31 GMT

John Robb: If any Mac developer(s) want(s) to work with UserLand to build a slick interface for Radio (like this one for Windows), let me know. I suspect based on UserLand's sales into the Mac community that it would be worth $50-$100 k in revenue to the partner in the first year (more in follow on years). Not a bad way to supplement income during a slow economic period. Note: UserLand sells software to over 3,500 companies, schools, and organizations.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

UserLand Gets TrackBack

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:01:19 GMT

Hmm... Looks like Dave figured out how TrackBack works. Could that mean that Manila and Radio will soon support this feature?

Alfredo Octavio

Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:32:30 GMT

Alfredo Octavio: Due to the problems in Venezuela as well as my own personal situation, I've decided not to renew Radio. It's only 40$ and certainly worth it. but I would need more space in the cloud server and I have a perfectly good server near by... So why not use it?
[Tyromaniac]

Great Software Support

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:30:04 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: The version numbering for Radio UserLand is leading David Weller, Scott Hanselman, and Sam Gentile to think it hasn't been updated in almost a year. Radio UserLand is updated frequently through automatic middle-of-the-night downloads -- the Radio.root changes feed lists 15 updates in the last month alone. People who quit using Radio say often that there's no support. Where are they looking? UserLand programmers Jake Savin and Lawrence Lee participate frequently in the support and development discussion forums.
[Workbench]

Eric Vitiello on RSS Referrers

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:56:50 GMT

Hmm... I tried to subscribe to Eric Vitiello's RSS feed, but I got:

Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Poorly formed XML text, string constant is improperly formatted. (At character #28.)"

I wanted him to see that Radio allows you to set the referrer url that the aggregator sends out.

20MB Limit

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:39:47 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: Scott Johnson has hit the 20MB limit on Radio UserLand's server, which can happen if you're publishing a lot of images or multimedia files. One way to deal with this is to set up Radio to publish some files to a second server using the upstreaming feature. I've set up Radio to automatically publish anything saved in a /Radio Userland/www/offsite folder to the Web hosting space provided by my ISP.
[Workbench]

Dog News

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:20:50 GMT

M. Ford: Jeff Cheney posted a note congratulating Dog News on its placement on the all-time most-read list.
[Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales]

Thank you for your kind words. I do not work for UserLand, but I wouldn't mind if I did! Unfortunately I can't take credit for the leg humping story — I simply quoted the genius of Alwin Hawkins.

Understanding Weblogs

Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:57:29 GMT

Dave Winer: An interesting article about weblogs at O'Reilly. Thanks for the balanced view of the history of RSS, and thanks for demo'ing weblogs through Radio UserLand.
[Scripting News]

Why You Are Not Reading This

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:51:04 GMT

Alfredo Octavio: Now, Radio is not posting at all... That is why you are not reading this!
[Tyromaniac]

Radio UserLand MetaWeblog API

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:47:06 GMT

Dave Winer: Brent Simmons reports a crashing bug in Apple's implementation of XML-RPC that shows up in UserLand's implementation of the MetaWeblog API.
[Scripting News]

It's funny, every time I hear about a problem with this code my first reaction is embarrassment. Mea culpa! Then I realize that the fact that people are finding problems means that they're using it. So I didn't contribute perfect code. Who does? What's important is that, thanks to Jake's prodding, I got the ball rolling. I helped UserLand, albiet in a very small way, but it feels pretty damn good.

New beta releases of Frontier and Radio

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:06:55 GMT

Jake Savin: New beta releases of both Frontier and Radio UserLand for Mac OS X are now available. These releases fix a crashing bug introduced with Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2.2, and also include bug fixes and performance improvements for the DLL interface, thanks to Andre Radke.
[Jake's Radio 'Blog]

RSS Backup

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:13:51 GMT

Dave Winer: Earlier today, around 4PM Pacific, we released code for Radio developers that creates a backup of all your weblog posts in RSS 2.0, as described on Monday. This will be the basis of no less than four key features: 1. Backup (of course). 2. Blog Browsers. 3. Interchange between blogging tools. 4. Synching between more than one Radio installation (or another blogging tool). We're going slowly, reviewing with the techies first, before releasing the user interface.
[Scripting News]

Feature Request for the MetaWeblog API

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:42:57 GMT

Dave Winer: Brent Simmons has a feature request for the MetaWeblog API.
[Scripting News]

Hmm...

Don't throw away my subscription!

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:04:50 GMT

Greg Hanek: I like this idea very much. Then if someone takes a blog-break, their feed wouldn't be disappeared from my subs list. Jeff's past employment aside, heh, this seems somewhat related to Dan Berlinger's quest for Really Simple Discovery ("Really simple is not."). By that I mean the software should allow me to get on with my own interests, and not have to constantly restore previous configurations, or do massive fiddling on a regular basis with the software -- unless I want to, that is :-).
[gRadio]

Suspend Subscription

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:22:19 GMT

It would be really cool if Radio's aggregator had a "suspend" flag for each subscription. That way I wouldn't lose track of feeds that have errored out and it would make it a lot easier to temporarily subscribe to feeds. It's hard enough finding stuff the first time... BTW, I know that this can be done because I used to be a paperboy.

RSS skipHours

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:13:37 GMT

Dave Winer: Mark Pilgrim reports that the optimizations that UserLand and other aggregator developers deployed in the last few weeks have saved him substantially on bandwidth costs. He says "On a normal day when I updated repeatedly throughout the day, your support for conditional GET reduced my aggregator-related traffic by almost 40%." His stats page now tracks the savings.
[Scripting News]

activeRenderer Version 1.3 Released

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:51:36 GMT

Marc Barrot: The new version of activeRenderer delivers 2 new features...
[Marc Barrot: activeRenderer]

skipHours Test

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:41:17 GMT

Bruce Loebrich: skipHours Test. I just wanted to see what my skipHours look like in each category before I deactivate the feature.
[Loebrich.org]

Radio UserLand RSS Skip Hours

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:59:51 GMT

Dave Winer: A new feature in Radio UserLand is an old feature in RSS, dating back to 1999.
[Scripting News]

Aggregator API

Sat, 09 Nov 2002 11:00:17 GMT

Dave Winer: Heads-up, we're making some changes to the XML-RPC interface for UserLand's aggregator. It's definitely not frozen yet. The implementation is out to the Radio-Dev list, but that's not frozen yet either. Still diggin!
[Scripting News]

Radio's Aggregator API

Fri, 08 Nov 2002 03:40:32 GMT

Dave Winer: Here it is — Radio's XML-RPC Interface for the Aggregator.
[Scripting News]

Mail-From-Aggregator

Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:52:11 GMT

Dave Winer: New feature for Radio: 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."
[Scripting News]

XSLT processing in Frontier and Radio

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:52:40 GMT

André Radke: Over the last few months, I noticed a few requests for an XSLT processor that would run in Frontier and Radio. After experimenting with both the Apache XML project's Xerces/Xalan and the Gnome project's libxml/libxslt libraries, I finally managed to produce a working extension for Frontier and Radio based on the Ginger Alliance's Sablotron. Please note: This release is for thrill seekers...
[SpicyNoodles.net]

activeRenderer

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 03:57:08 GMT

Marc Barrot: I've released an intermediary release 1.2.2 of activeRenderer today, in order to fix 2 installation related bugs. [read more]
[Marc Barrot: activeRenderer]

metaRenderer News

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:39:29 GMT

Oliver Wrede: Marks move urges me to announce another enhancement of the metaRenderer Plug-In that I started working on: the OPML renderer framework. It allows you to set up any number of custom rules to convert any OPML document to HTML. It is not very fast. I'd be happy if someone could help me with this. Maybe it requires another approach technically than the one I have chosen.
[owrede_log]

Chimera

Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:23:45 GMT

I just started using Chimera. It's pretty cool. Nothing fancy, just fast page rendering. And I like how it handles cookies — allowing me to pick and choose which ones I want to accept and remembering my choices. I like it! Of course it revealed a weakness in my template, which caused my news days to touch my sidebar. That was easy to fix by changing a couple of values in my base style sheet. Now it looks good in Chimera, but the gutter is too wide in Explorer... Argh! I tried to post this message using Chimera, but it wouldn't load my local home page...

RSS Explorer Tool

Fri, 18 Oct 2002 20:06:00 GMT

Dave Winer: Beta: RSS Explorer Tool. A nice check-box interface for discovering new RSS sources. It's a beta, which means there could be bugs, and more features and fixes are probably coming. But it's pretty darned useful right now. For those who don't have Radio yet, here's a screen shot.
[Scripting News]

truncated RSS items

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:43:57 GMT

Greg Hanek: This is a test of truncated RSS items. This has only been a test. ... (87 words)
[gRadio]

Archipelago 2.0

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:39:19 GMT

Dave Winer: Congrats to Daniel Berlinger on the release of Archipelago 2.0, a Macintosh desktop editor for Manila and Radio sites, and tools that conform to the Blogger and Metaweblog APIs.
[Scripting News]

Radio Scripts

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:49:25 GMT

Rob McNair-Huff: A great source of Radio scripts. Andy Fragen has a script that will fix the limitation of moving a Radio installation to a different hard disk, different machine, or even a different location on your current machine among the great collection of Radio scripts on his Scripts page. Thanks for Jake Savin for the pointer.
[Mac Net Journal]

news2mail in Essential Blogging

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:45:15 GMT

Doug Kaye: My news2mail tool for Radio UserLand is covered in the new weblog book from O'Reilly.
[Doug Kaye: Noise]

I certainly consider news2mail essential to blogging. I use it every day. In fact, I used it to read and post (via customBlogPost) this very item. Thanks, Doug!

Jeff's Radio Weblog

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:08:17 GMT

Yesterday was the first anniversary of Jeff's Radio Weblog!

Radio Entity Decoding

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:36:50 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: UserLand has released a Radio Userland bug fix for the problem handling entries that use entities to present sample HTML (like this: <BR>).
[Workbench]

Recently Read RSS

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:30:26 GMT

Karl D'Adamo: I put the code of the macro in my workspace and called it from there. I got a few errors, but managed to remove quotes and clean it up so it compiles. Lets see if this works:

[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "channeltitle" hasn't been defined.]

Hmm, I have had this problem before. I think its happening because one of the channles to which I subscribe doesn't have a title. Let see if I can track it down. Hmm, no luck in the first 20 or so. I'll continue checking.
[Sopsy Digest]

Oy! It's always something. Now that you mention it I recall having this problem myself. I don't remember which subscription(s) caused the problem, but I do remember that it took a while to track them down — I'm currently subscribed to 197 news sources...

Recently Read RSS

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:11:57 GMT

Karl D'Adamo: I just saw Jeff Cheney's recently read macro. Looks pretty cool, I think I will add it to my template, but lets test it out first:

[Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "jtcRecentlyReadRSS" hasn't been defined.]

Hmm, can't fix it now, I'll worry about it later. Cool idea though.
[Sopsy Digest]

Ha! That's exactly what I thought.
FWIW, this macro works perfectly if you put it in an object database (e.g. radio.root), but it doesn't work as a text file in your macros folder. Usually this happens because of a compile error, but I haven't figured out why this one won't work...

Aggregator referral commentary

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:31:16 GMT

Erik Noble: If your RSS aggregator supports the customization of the referrer URL, I encourage you to take advantage of this feature. 48.74% of the few hits that I get have a referrer URL of http://radio.userland.com/newsaggregator. This tells me that almost half the people hitting this site are using Radio's aggregator.
[Grumpicus Maximus]

RCS Security Alert

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:13:16 GMT

Dave Winer: A security hole was closed in Radio Community Server last night. Highly recommended that all RCS installations update asap.
[Scripting News]

Magic Radio Incantation

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:34:40 GMT

Here's a handy tip. If, when you launch Radio UserLand, it doesn't bring your browser to the front and load your local home page and Radio only has 1 thread running, then try running the following script in your QuickScript window (Command-;).

user.scheduler.prefs.runThreads = true; scheduler.monitorThreads ();

I'm told that Radio can get stuck in this state if the program halts unexpectedly — especially if it crashes while you're running Radio->Utilities->Compact Data Files... which is exactly what happened to me.

Weekly Archives for Radio Weblogs

Thu, 05 Sep 2002 19:36:47 GMT

Jake Savin: One week ago, I released some code Lawrence wrote to enable Radio to generate Monthly Archive pages for your Radio weblog. Today I released some parts, also by Lawrence, that let you do Weekly Archives. Here's my weekly archive for this week -- week 35 of the year 2002.
[Jake's Radio 'Blog]

Radio UserLand Monthly Archives

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 01:58:17 GMT

Jake Savin: New feature — Monthly archives. You can now generate archive pages for your Radio weblog, which display all of the posts for a given month. Check a box, and you're done...
[Jake's Radio 'Blog]

Very nice! However, I'm more one of those post-10-times-a-day-every-day type of bloggers so I'll leave it turned off, thanks.

Python Community Server

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:19:21 GMT

Thanks to Robert Barksdale and Phil Pearson for inviting me to try out Python Community Server. I don't know if they planned it this way, but I ended up with almost the same user number. How cool is that?

All-Time Most-Read Radio Weblogs

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:39:03 GMT

Congratulations to Ray Ozzie, Roland Piquepaille, Brad Wilson, and Bruce Loebrich who all recently passed me on the all-time most-read list:

49.	The .NET Guy	24,984
50.	Loebrich.org	24,982
51.	Jeff's Radio Weblog	24,885
52.	BitWorking	24,393
53.	Matthew Langham's Radio Weblog	23,583

Weblog template designers don't get enough credit

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 01:44:15 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: I don't think that folks like Joe, Bryan, and Garret who design templates for weblogs get enough credit.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

I agree. And thank you for your kind words.

Radio Deployment Descriptors

Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:42:27 GMT

Jon Udell: A few weeks ago, I spent some time showing an InfoWorld colleague, Mark Jones, how I use Radio.
[Jon's Radio]

Describing Radio UserLand

Thu, 08 Aug 2002 04:27:32 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: I took a first stab at describing Radio Userland, which remains a challenge.
[Workbench]

How to publish a Radio Userland category to a private location

Sat, 03 Aug 2002 20:24:49 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: How to publish a Radio Userland category to a private location.
[Workbench]

New Bryan Bell Radio themes

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:42:56 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: BTW, for you Radio users — Bryan has placed all the Radio themes he's developed into one convenient, easy-to-download folder. Just unstuff the downloaded file, copy the themes inside the folder into your Radio Userland Themes directory, and play around with the new flavors.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

Localization Guest Databases

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:21:09 GMT

Localization Guest Databases: "Recently released additions to Frontier and Radio UserLand make it easy for developers and translators to create and share localizations for Manila, mainResponder and Radio UserLand."
[Frontier News]

Day-level PermaLinks in Radio UserLand

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:34:33 GMT

Let me tell you a funny story with a happy ending. For a while now I've been thinking that it would be nice to remove the images for the daily archive permalinks and just have the longDate linked to the archive. It sounds simple enough, but when I dove into the code I found that the built-in dayTemplate macro, archiveLink is processed deep within the bowels of radio.weblog.render. I set out to write my own macro to replace this one, but quickly found a couple of road blocks. In order to calculate the archive link I needed to know two vital pieces of information, neither of which was readily available to my macro.

The first was flArchivePage, which tells me whether the page being published is the home page or an archive page and thus, whether or not it needs a "../../" pre-pended to the url. I consulted the highest sources and learned that I could get flArchivePage by calling radio.file.getAbsolutePath. Of course in order to call that script I need to pass it the path of the file being rendered, which fortunately can be found in the pageTable, pta^.radioResponder.fileBeingRendered.

The second was archiveFileExtension, which I learned that I could get by calling radio.webserver.gatherAttributes, which returns the address of a table, which contains the renderedFileExtension, which may or may not include a leading '.', and if not found by radio is assumed to be "html".

So I started digging in to write this monsterous macro to perform a menial task. I was thinking about how cool it is to have multiple layers of macro processing, ala the dayTemplate, when suddenly it occurred to me...

I didn't need to write a macro to do what I wanted!

All I had to do was to go to my Customized Images preferences page and replace the "Day-level permalink":

<img src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001018/images/dailylinkIcon.gif" height="15" width="12" border="0" alt="Permanent Link to Daily Archive" />

With the longDate macro:

<%longDate%>

Viola!

If it was a snake, then it would have bit me...

How to use one copy of Radio Userland to publish two weblogs, each on a different community server

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:45:47 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: I figured out how to use one copy of Radio Userland to publish two weblogs, each on a different community server. I'm using it to publish this weblog and a Salon Blog. Warning: The procedure isn't pretty. Read my how-to article.
[Workbench]

Salon Blogs

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:48:33 GMT

Salon Media Group, in partnership with UserLand Software, today announced the launch of Salon Blogs, a new service that will allow Salon's users to publish their own weblogs through Salon.
[Scripting News]

Scott Rosenberg

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:43:38 GMT

Dave Winer: Scott Rosenberg, Salon's managing editor, has a new weblog, and it's very nice. I've known Scott for quite a few years, he wrote one of the first articles about weblogs, in May 1999. His weblog is edited with Radio UserLand, and that makes me proud. You can subscribe to Scott's weblog with Radio's news aggregator. Stay tuned for more Salon weblog links.
[Scripting News]

SharedOutline

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:26:21 GMT

Paolo Valdemarin: SharedOutline is a Radio UserLand tool that lets you share outlines with other users.
[Scripting News]

PostgreSQL extension for Frontier and Radio

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:52:54 GMT

André Radke: Version 1.0a14 of my PostgreSQL extension for Frontier and Radio is ready for download.
[SpicyNoodles.net]

Radio Userland Feeds Found Lacking?

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 02:54:45 GMT

Ben Hammersley: We've already chatted about James Linden's new RSSEngine project, and as he finalizes more details, he's discovered "proof" to his "quiet rants" about Radio Userland's RSS feeds.
[Content Syndication with XML and RSS]

I'm sorry that your glasses are half empty, mine is half full. While I agree that the quality of many RSS feeds could be improved, I do not choose to blame UserLand for something that is not their fault. Rather I thank them for providing wonderful tools, no matter how imperfect they may be.

The impetous to improve the quality of feeds is slearly on the individuals that produce them. If they don't, then their feeds will not be picked up by more particular applications. Radio can and does produce RSS feeds with Title and Link elements. It's simply a matter of how you use the software.

Radio UserLand Return On Investment

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 05:49:14 GMT

Rob McNair-Huff: The money required to run the site is so small because I am using the great Radio 8 Weblog software to build and maintain it. Radio allows me to manage the site, but it also makes it exceedingly easy to keep up with happenings in Mac news, and it makes it easy to create innovative documents like the ongoing Macworld Expo report page I created earlier today. I am not sure how I would tackle the current level of reporting on MNJ if I had to revert back to using a text editor and loads of time...
[Mac Net Journal]

It's Official - I'm a Paying Radio Customer

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 04:55:38 GMT

Andy Meadows: After 27 days as a trial user - I'm hooked. I'm addicted to my daily news reads, getting my personal newspaper and being able to publish what I think is relevant in my little world. I think that there are some definite ways to improve the software, but it's a great tool and I think I've only scratched the surface. If you haven't yet tried out Radio, I highly suggest you download a copy and give it a whirl.
[Open Source & Apple]

New activeRenderer RSS Feed

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 07:02:05 GMT

Marc Barrot: I've just created a new Radio category for activeRenderer related posts. [read more]
[s l a m]

Frontier and Radio Userland keyboard shortcuts

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 02:34:40 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: Brent Simmons has published a list of Frontier and Radio Userland keyboard shortcuts.
[Workbench]

Let's see if they stick

Wed, 03 Jul 2002 05:05:16 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: OK, I got Radio to accept my settings. Let's see if they stick.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

I don't understand Radio UserLand at all

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 06:47:31 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: On second thought, I don't understand Radio at all. No matter how many times I change the FTP upstreaming options, it changes them back to the old values. What a shitty bug. Irritating as hell.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

Radio UserLand

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:40:11 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: Maybe I should just use Radio. I understand Radio.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

Desktop RSS Aggregators

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:19:17 GMT

Oliver Wrede: Pineapple is the RSS feed scanner Radio Userland tries to be. I was arguing with John Robb once about the disadvantages of a HTML-based software interfaces - and Pineapple shows what I meant.
[owrede_log]

Pineapple's interface is interesting — much more so that the much touted AmphetaDesk or SlashDock (or even the very lovely MacNewsWire). I'm still happiest using Radio with news2mail and customBlogPost, but I'm glad to see more options.

Sjoerd Visscher's macros for Radio

Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:18:51 GMT

Bill Simoni: Completed Day 9 with the aid of Sjoerd Visscher's macros for Radio. Of note, since my DOCTYPE is HTML 4.01 Transitional, I had to modify the macro to not append the backslash at the end of the <link> tag. I learned that the ending backslash in an empty tag causes a page to not validate if using HTML 4.01 Transitional.
[Binary by Accident]

Thanks to Sjoerd for the code, to Bill for pointing it out and most of all to Mark for educating us all.

How to boost employee productivity by using a news aggregator

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:35:35 GMT

John Robb: How to boost employee productivity by using a news aggregator.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Adding a date to the title of your Radio archive pages

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:19:03 GMT

Jake Savin: Adding a date to the title of your Radio archive pages.
[Jake's Radio Macros]

Sweet! Thanks, Jake! I made one minor adjustment — for some reason OS X was insisting on using the abbreviated date string (which is probably useless for search engine indexing purposes) so I changed string.dateString to date.longString. Beautiful!

PostgreSQL extension for Frontier and Radio

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:45:39 GMT

André Radke: Version 1.0a11 of my PostgreSQL extension for Frontier and Radio is ready for download.
[SpicyNoodles.net]

Radio UserLand Referrer Logs

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:21:40 GMT

Ben Hammersley: It appears this idea originated with Jeff Cheney, then it went via Adam Wendt to Deus_X at 0xDECAFBAD and onto Dave. Mmm - tasty linkage, all you infovores.
[Content Syndication with XML and RSS]

Thank you, sir! I'm not sure how much credit I deserve, but I'll take what I can get.

weblogsComData.root

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:53:39 GMT

Aha! I tracked the problem down to a bad entry in weblogsComData.weblogs. I deleted the corrupt entry and did a "Save As" on weblogsComData.root. Quit Radio, swapped the files and started again. I'm a happy camper once again.

Weblogs.com weirdness

Sun, 09 Jun 2002 23:38:33 GMT

Something weird is going on with Radio and Weblogs.com. This afternoon I noticed that my "Fresh Favorites" was empty. So I did some digging. My Weblogs page says "Error reading Weblogs.com data file." I dug some more and found that my weblogsComData.prefs.changesURL points to http://www.weblogs.com/weblogUpdates/changes.xml. However if you go to http://www.weblogs.com/ and click on the "XML" button it goes to http://www.weblogs.com/changes.xml (note the missing "weblogUpdates" directory). Aha! I thought, they changed the URL without telling anyone. Maybe they sent out a root update that I missed. No, my root is up to date. Moreover both URLs appear to point to the same data. Hmm...

Weblog Neighborhood Tool

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:59:29 GMT

A couple of notes about the new Weblog Neighborhood Tool:

I like the new Update Radio Root page! I wish it gave as much information as user.rootUpdates.updateOutline.
I love the fact that no one, including UserLand, is sure if you need to restart in order to activate a Radio Tool!
FWIW, I'm pretty sure that you don't, but sometimes it takes so long that you might as well quit and restart...
The results are very interesting!
It appears to be unexpectedly using my #desktopWebsiteTemplate.txt

Weblog Neighborhood Tool

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:57:26 GMT

Mind-bomb: Weblog Neighborhood Tool.
[Dave Winer: Mind Bombs]

RSS Auto-Discovery

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 06:54:47 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: Now that Mark and Dave have done the heavy lifting, I have RSS autosubscribe implemented both here and at the Jumpgate. Hard-coded first, then replaced with the appropriate Radio macro (I already had the {meta} statement in the Manila template). Not difficult either way, which is important for the sleep-deprived non-geek.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

Ah! Thanks for reminding me to update my Manila homepage template. I added links for both RSS and ScriptingNews2 formats.

RSS auto-discovery

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 06:42:02 GMT

Bill Simoni: RSS auto-discovery has been enabled by a macro in my Radio template. Cool.
[Binary by Accident]

Me too.

rss leave a trail

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 00:59:23 GMT

Sweet! This weblog is the #1 result on Google for "rss leave a trail".

Learn Radio

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 05:17:51 GMT

Wouldn't you like to learn the exciting new field of Radio -- right in the privacy of your own home? You bet you would -- all those fun things that you get with Radio -- snappy songs, games, hilarity, and up-to-the-minute news of all the swell stuff that people are doing who are more interesting than you -- and all piped into your home at absolutely no cost whatsoever. It's thrilling, this New World of Radio, and it's sure to open up lots of new opportunities for happiness and personal contentment, so you're going to want to be right in there on the ground floor. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a part of the new happening Radio Club. Then we can hit you up for your money.
[Jeff's Weblog]

RadioPoint Tool

Fri, 31 May 2002 19:01:38 GMT

Dave Winer: The RadioPoint Tool turns the outliner into a presentation authoring program.
[Dave Winer: Radio UserLand]

Personal RSS Aggregators

Thu, 30 May 2002 23:17:41 GMT

Dave Winer: Jon Udell's last column for BYTE, Personal RSS Aggregators, is rising through the ranks on Daypop. This is good to see. Unlike weblogs, aggregators don't leave much of a visible trail to follow.
[Scripting News]

One place aggregators do leave a trail is in the referrer logs of the sites they aggregate. This can be enhanced by modifying Radio's application signature (aggregatorData.prefs.appSignatureUrl) to point to a custom page.

Conversant

Tue, 21 May 2002 22:51:43 GMT

Brent Simmons: Major congratulations and best wishes go to Seth Dillingham and everybody at Macrobyte Resources for releasing Conversant, their Internet groupware platform that runs in Frontier and Radio UserLand. Good job, folks.
[inessential.com]