Peter Cook: thingsUserland

new help menu in opml...

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:19:40 GMT

new help menu in opml editor.
[Via Donovan's thoughtStream]

leslie m. orchard: "Man, if I thought...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:10:12 GMT

leslie m. orchard: "Man, if I thought that Movable Type moved like a barge for me, and WordPress was a quicker ship, blogging with the OPML Editor is like steering a cavitating torpedo." i couln't put it better myself
[Via Donovan's thoughtStream]

CNNMoney.com: Smartest Technology: RSS

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:58:34 GMT

At long last, really simple syndication, or RSS, came into its own. Developed by Silicon Valley technologist Dave Winer, RSS makes it easy for popular sites such as CNN, Reuters, and Yahoo -- and tens of thousands of bloggers -- to distribute online text, audio, and video worldwide. RSS has been around since 1997, but it got a big boost in the past year as Microsoft announced plans to integrate it into Windows, letting RSS do for online media what the Web did for the Internet.

Congratulations Dave.

Squib, like Radio but different

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:53:39 GMT

Matt Mower: "Squib is a blogging tool influenced by Radio Userland. Like Radio, Squib is a local app that publishes a static site to a Radio Community Server. Unlike Radio, Squib is written using Rails, is stable & non-funky, and uses SQL for data storage."
[Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

What's happening here? Steve Kirks is with Userland, no?

Radio to detect when application folder has been moved or renamed

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:52:41 GMT

This is something that has plagued Radio users for years. If you move Radio to a different folder or rename the folder Radio resides in, all hell breaks loose. Andy Fragen wrote a script called myFixFilePathsAndAddresses to handle this situation but now UserLand is going to be finishing a set of special startup-code for Radio, which will detect when the application folder has been moved or renamed.
[Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

Good stuff. This particular problem is in my face right now following the melt down of my hard drive last week.

Sharing at so many levels!

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:39:00 GMT

Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML.

Here's Ray Ozzie's introduction and FAQ.

It was my privilege to be in the loop while it was being developed. This is my introduction to the new technology, my view of its significance.

[Via Scripting News]

Coolio. Congrats Dave.

Knowledgeorama OPML Directory Tool

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:35:13 GMT

Andy Sylvester sent an email this morning announcing that he had just launched a new weblog using Radio and wanted to let us know about a new Radio UserLand tool that he developed for creating OPML directories. He calls it DirectoryTool and it allows you to:

Create directory files using the Radio UserLand outliner.

Generate HTML files corresponding to the OPML file directory structure.

Automatically upload your directory to your Radio UserLand weblog.

For more information, visit his site and the announcement post here.
[Via Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

system.verbs.builtins.xml.plist changed on Fri, 23 Sep 2005...

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:40:56 GMT

system.verbs.builtins.xml.plist changed on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:53:03 GMT: xml.plist.plistToTable and xml.plist.tableToPlist are verbs for converting to-and-from Apple's XML-based Property List (plist) format.
[Via Radio.root Updates]

Hmmmmm...

Radio UserLand Kick Start: Creating Outlines

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:34:58 GMT

This chapter describes the core features of Radio's outliner, which is one of the most sophisticated tools of its kind in any software. The practice and terminology of outlining are introduced, followed by specific details of Radio's implementation.

Whooopeee -- there's a Mac version of the OPML Editor!

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:07:05 GMT

First, welcome to all our friends in the Mac universe. I'm sorry it took so long to get the release out for the Mac, but here it is, ready for you to use, knock wood, praise Murphy, I am not a lawyer, my mother loves me, and all other disclaimers, past, present and future.

[Via support News]

Oh oh! I'm too busy to have a wonderful distraction like this to play with! Thanks Dave.

Welcome to the OPML Editor! ";-...

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:12:12 GMT

Welcome to the OPML Editor! ";->"
[Via Scripting News]

Big news. I hope there will be a Mac version soon.

Shine the Spotlight on Radio

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:01:22 GMT

John Fraser: "I setup Radio to render a local backup tonight, and published my entire site... Spotlight has indexed this backup and now performs searches of my local blog data too. I've been wanting a search feature for a while, now I have an integrated local machine search engine that covers all my data."

[Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

BTW, the instant outliner I ship will...

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:14:25 GMT

BTW, the instant outliner I ship will be free. The kernel is open source, already released under GPL. Haven't decided whether to open source the I/O functionality.
[Via Scripting News]

Coolio

Radio UserLand Tip of the Week: How to replace the xml graphic with an alternative

Tue, 31 May 2005 04:02:48 GMT

I want to preface this tip by urging you not to implement this tip. I believe the orange XML button that is rendered by default is the best, most consistent way, to represent your RSS feed. Having said that, if you still want to replace yours, here's how. [May 26, 2005]

[Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

My query prompted this tip from Donovan. Thanks!!

Eight years ago: Matt Neuburg's Frontier...

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:16:50 GMT

Eight years ago: Matt Neuburg's Frontier scripting tutorial.
[Via Scripting News]

This is about the time and place I learned some basic scripting.

Donovan Watts: Radio's Librarian

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:44:17 GMT

After watching the many outstanding entries at Donovan's Radio: The Missing Manual, UserLand made him and offer he couldn't refuse: Radio's Librarian

Welcome aboard, Donovan--and thank you!

[Via house of warwick]

Dwight Shih is learning UserTalk

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:40:53 GMT

In an interesting set of posts, Dwight Shih takes us along on his journey to learn UserTalk, the core language of "Radio UserLand" and Manila's scripting environment.

Dwight, if you haven't already, pick up a copy of Matt Neuburg's excellent book on Frontier, the precursor to Radio and Manila. The first 150 pages or so of the "Buffalo book" are a gold mine of programming instructions and tips.

[Via house of warwick]

Changing Radio's Processor Usage

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:09:41 GMT

I've been playing quite a bit with Radio's prefs to reduce the processor burden on my older Mac now hosting my Radio weblog. I've made things a bit easier by changing some buried preferences:

user.radio.prefs.maxDataFiles -- was 3, now 15
user.radio.prefs.thread.secsBetweenChecks -- was 10, now 60
user.radio.prefs.upstream.secsBetweenChecks -- was 10, now 120

And under user.radio.prefs.glossary:

flReadNightly to false
logging to false

These settings help the agents that watch over Radio to run less often and thereby use less of my processor.

[Via house of warwick]

Radio Quick Start Guide PDF

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:00:53 GMT

Thanks to Matt Mower, the Radio Quick Start guide is now available in PDF format.

Radio Quick Start.pdf (PDF, 139K)

[Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

New Radio UserLand macro: categoryLinks

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:00:52 GMT

Want to have a list of your categories on the home page of your website? No problem! Use this macro:

categoryLinks

[Via house of warwick]

Two Mac developers flirt...

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:41:44 GMT

Sometime pretty soon (praise Murphy) we'll ship an open source (GPL) outliner that knows OPML and the Web very well.
[Via Scripting News]

Coolio. Go Dave.

Radio is getting more improvements: comment and trackback...

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:15:01 GMT

Radio is getting more improvements: comment and trackback moderation, upstreaming changes and comment count speed increases.

[snip] We expect to roll out these changes before month's end, barring any odd issues that come up during the beta test.

[house of warwick]

How to move Radio to another computer

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:29:29 GMT

Sometimes, when you are having difficulty with Radio, you need to resort to a fresh install. Or, you may have purchased a new computer and want to move Radio over. How to move Radio to another computer steps you through the process so you have a positive experience.

[Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual]

Flagging this again as I will soon (next week?) be moving to a new machine.

del.icio.us follow up. updates home page automatically

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:33:43 GMT

Using the power of del.icio.us, NetNewsWire, AppleScript, and Radio, I've now got an auto-updating home page that gets published whenever a new link is added to del.icio.us with a 'radiouserland' tag.

--
Donovan Watts
Radio: The Missing Manual [Radio Discussion List]

Looks like a mighty handy script which could be adopted to other uses where an auto-update is needed.

Radio 8.1 comes tonight

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:38:57 GMT

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]