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Wednesday, April 17, 2002 |
Tim Tabor was kind of enough to point me in the direction of some useful writings on how to use Radio. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like he's been lead into a dark cave with no light and no map.
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Monday, April 15, 2002 |
Radio has a feature called Categories where you can specify that each item is in any number of your specified categories. Unfortunately, the documentation on this feature is rather terse.
After I created my categories and edited each of my existing posts so that they were in at least one category, I couldn't find the generated pages showing all of the posts in each category. That's when I discovered that I should have checked the box that says "Check this box to render this category in HTML" for each category. After doing that, I still couldn't find the HTML. But I was able to find a directory called categories underneath the www directory in my Radio UserLand folder. Underneath this categories directory were my new categories. Each one contained just a single rss.xml file. Where's the HTML?
It turns out that I had to edit (without making any actual changes) to one post in each category in order to build the HTML for those categories. Apparently you have to edit a post in order to get the HTML to rebuild even after you modify a template (which I just did in order to get the links to my new categories to appear on my home page).
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Sunday, April 14, 2002 |
I guess I don't fully understand how Radio works yet but somehow a reference to this blog (which I never told anyone about) found its way onto my favorite blog, Lambda the Ultimate.
Do the blogs that I subscribe to (via Radio) know that I'm watching? If I knew people were reading this drivel, I might actually put in the effort to output more of it. I gotta get my $40 worth somehow.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
Dave has just discovered the Flash of Unstyled Content. Luckily, there's a workaround.
This, by the way, is my first post made by clicking on the POST button in Radio's News Aggregator. It wasn't as helpful as I had expected it to be. Why would I want to paste Dave's words into my blog without some sort of indication that it was a quote?
My CSS-infected mind immediately selected the paragraph Radio had inserted for me so that I could select a "Quote" style from the Paragraph... list. Alas, Dave doesn't believe separating the presentation details from the actual content.
Is Radio customizable enough so that users can populate those dropdowns at the top of your edit box with their own appropriately classed div and span elements? I doubt it but would love to be proven wrong.
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This is my first post from a machine other than my home machine.
UserLand was smart in not enabling remote access by default but it would have been nice if they'd followed RFC 2616 correctly.
My first attempt at logging in from a remote machine resulted in a 500 Internal Server Error. That can't be good. Did I break something?
It turns out that I didn't have remote access enabled. Shouldn't Radio have responded with a 401 Unauthorized or 403 Forbidden instead? That would have been a great help in diagnosing the problem.
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Sunday, February 17, 2002 |
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Friday, February 15, 2002 |
So Radio 8 came out just a little over a month ago. I'd previously never tried using it or anything else produced by Dave Winer. It's hard, though, not to notice the legions of fans he had accumulated over the past few years who absolutely rave about his software. And since I try to keep an open mind regarding technology, I decided to download the trial version of Radio 8 to see what the fuss was all about. This is all despite my negative view of Dave (and, hence, his software). 29 days later, however, I had yet to make my first post.
With only one day left in my trial, I figured I had no choice but to purchase a license. Why not? I can afford it. And Dave no doubt deserves it. See, I don't hate Dave. How could I? I've never met him. I only know him through the technology he's produced. I'm talking about RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, and more. Being a software engineer slash XML instructor slash all-around nerd, I'm constantly looking at other people's work and thinking that I could do better. Yes, it's a disease. Some people call it NIH (Not Invented Here). I call it NIBM (Not Invented By Me).
To top it all off, Dave's a very in-your-face type of person. I'd seen some of his work, rolled my eyes at it, and then read in amazement (once I started recognizing his name) the letters he would write to the technical mailing lists I subscribed to and also the columns he would write for the XML-related magazines I would read. Who does this guy think he is?
But XML (and even technology in general) isn't just about the elegance of your design. It's about how you make use of it. Dave has this uncanny ability to get people excited about technology and that leads to the kind of spontaneous, creative innovation that people like me can only dream of.
Needless to say, I've started warming up to him. I read Scripting News regularly now and really appreciate his insights and all he's done for the community at large. Sure, he can still learn a thing or two about markup design but I can learn a lot more from him. I'm hoping that using his software to maintain this blog will give me just a little bit of insight into what it's like living in his world. It doesn't seem like such a bad place to be.
This post's for you, Dave.
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Thursday, February 14, 2002 |
Microphone check.
One two, one two.
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