Community Documentation, Scripts and Tools

This will grow. I may even organize this stuff into categories that make sense some day. It may become a directory. Who knows? This list is not exhaustive, only exhausting. Please email me with your additions including stuff you have written or coded.

For now, the more recent entries are displayed at the top of this page.

If Mark Paschal doesn't know how to tweak a Radio script, I don't know who does. His Stapler tool for RSS scraping is serious.

I'm not sure where to start with Marc Barrot's SLAM site. If Radio keeps attracting users of Marc's technical and communicative caliber, Userland is heading for the major leagues. If nothing else, check out his spinning Instant Outline coffee cup macro.

Andy Fragen is another of those 'end users' who have proven that Radio programming isn't just for professional hackers. His Print Outline and other tools fill real gaps in the product.

David Davies' sometimes claims he is just another end-user. Yeah, sure. David has been deep-thinking his way into a raft of cool scripts and enhancements for Frontier, Manila and Radio for what seems (thankfully) like decades. Try his picture gallery script to make it easier to organize your image files within Radio.

If you just must use an external HTML editor to develop your Radio templates (you say browser-based template editing is a joke?), take a look at Paolo Valdemarin's Remote Edit tool. Stop by his generalized RadioTools page as well.

Jon Udell organizes some of his weblog posts into a storylist. Many, though not all, focus on Radio. All are stimulating - as one would expect from perhaps the best tech writer in the industry. Aerobics for the mind. 

Userland's collection of Radio resources done up as a directory. Includes business, documentation, community and developer categories.

Ruminations and daily updates to the same. This is Andy Sylvester's effort to keep up with the ever growing set of community docs, scripts and tools for Radio weenies.

Scott Johnson's Radio Docs. Geeky but accessible writings on lessons being learned along the way to Radio mastery. Besides, geeks have to live too.

Mark Woods' Enabling Category-Specific Stories. I swear by this, not at it. It works.  Changing Radio's Editors Only Menu is funkier but fun reading ... if you're into stuff like Finegan's Wake.

This is cool. Jeff Cheney's most-recently-updated list of favorite weblogs works a nifty variation on the basic Radio variety.

Peter Drayton offers Google2RSS. His description of it is the best: "a command-line tool that runs a query using the Google Web API and spits out an RSS 0.91 feed containing the top 10 hits. Combine Google2RSS with a task scheduler like the one built into Windows 2000/XP and the Radio Userland upstreaming facility, and you have an automatically generated, regularly updated, topic-oriented RSS feed: collaborative filtering courtesy of Google & the Internet, pushed to a desktop near you by Radio!" Hey, nothing to it.

Some just-beyond-beginner docs from the Shifted Librarian. Includes opening links in a new window, adding navigator links, displaying subscribed RSS feeds in your home page and the like. Want more. Want more. Want more.

David Berry has dedicated himself to FrontPage. Poor guy. Anyway, from time to time, he focuses on docs that show us how to integrate Radio with FrontPage. Good stuff.

Go to jenett.radio and look for the links to the theme downloads, like this one. We need every theme we can get. Especially cool is the CSS work underway.

SLAM offers a macro for translating OPML files to HTML. Watch the edge bleed in front of you ...

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