Kit 1.1.7.

Mark Paschal will add permalink improvements to Kit. Guess I should get busy with that then. =)

Actually, I just realized it worked for me since I started using KitSuite.past.permalinkUrl for the permalink. But of course I should still fix the built-in macro.

Thus: Kit 1.1.7.

[Mark Paschal: Kit] 

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Copyright, The Outline
Copyright Basics - you've read the book and seen the movie, now peruse "the outline."  This is a project I had been tinkering with to add to my site as a link.  I was hoping to make it an outline, and when activeRenderer went live, I decided to pop in what I had been working on.  Exploring legal information is much easier in an outline format.  Ne c'est pas? [Ernie the Attorney] 

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Radio Configuration Changes
Republished entire eSpective site several times to make template changes migrate properly. 

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Site Statistics
Added WebTrendsLive tracking code. 

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In response to a question from a Salon weblogger, I've posted a new article: How to post to your Radio Userland weblog from multiple computers. [Rogers Cadenhead: Workbench: Salon Blog Tips] 

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Ernie the Attorney uses ActiveRenderer for copyright outline
Go. Take a look. Nice example. 

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The Blogroll Works.

Played with activeRenderer last night to make the blogroll behave. Check out the results - I'm pretty happy with the end result. (If you're reading this in a news aggregator, just visit the home page. If you aren't sure what a news aggregator is, it's safe to assume you're reading this on the web site itself. Look over there. No, there. See where it says "Worthwhile links?" That's what I'm talking about.)

I documented the steps necessary to make this work - keep in mind that this requires a bit of extra effort. This wasn't really an intended implementation of activeRenderer, but Marc Barrot (the tool's author) was intrigued enough to say that he's going to look at making it easier down the road. No promises (by him, that is), but the fact that it does this well out of the box is a good sign.

Those who are following this thread know that I was trying to make this work using Userland's macros. Ultimately, I preferred activeRenderer's more complete functionality - I have more control over the presentation. And the directoryFrame macro is dependent on some code running at Userland's servers - which often dramatically slowed down page loads. Overall, I think this is a better answer.

Let me know what you think.

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 

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Active Render Extras
I was just messing around with Radio UserLand and found another cool way to present pictures in a slideshow with the ActiveRenderer tool. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 

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Active Renderer is Too Easy.

Yet another minor enhancement to the site that I've been meaning to do for a while. I just installed Marc Barrot's Active Renderer plug-in. It's going to allow me to do a bunch of nice user interface things on the site (including fixing the blogroll on the home page), but initially the biggest change is the cleaner interface for daily posts. Now every day has a little wedge next to it that looks like this:

By default, prior day's posts are collapsed. Click on the black wedge, and you'll see the posts for that day. This cleans up the home page considerably, and makes navigation pretty straightforward.

The most incredible thing about this is how ridiculously simple it was to implement. Download the file, save it to your Radio Tools folder (the Tools folder is in your Radio Userland folder). Shut down and restart Radio, then go to the preferences page for Active Renderer. Check the boxes to activate it, and you're all set. Publish your home page and enjoy!

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 

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

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I've created a new feed for my daily pointers project, done in association with Aortal:

       the dailywebthing - daily pointers

Thanks again to Evectors RadioTools for RssDistiller, a most useful tool...  [jenett.radio] 

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Dave Seidel asks when my new email comment thingy will be added to the simplicity.2 theme.  Well, Dave, the answer is as soon as you add it yourself... :~)

Grab the little icon by saving a copy to your "images" folder (with the name "ecomment.gif") - then, add the following code to your item template where you want the icon to appear (but don't forget to replace my email address with your own).  You may need to add space before and after it ( ) to make it work with your setup:

<%""%>

See...that was easy.  Radio - a great DIY kinda thing. [jenett.radio] 

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Thanks to Dave Seidel for inspiring my new email comment link you see below each post... [jenett.radio] 

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My Radio... Now it gets interesting.

Check out this "early release" of an extension of the Radio Userland world. From the developers' about page:

This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework. The GUI (screenshot) is reminiscent of My Yahoo! and other server based personalization tools.

More information available here.

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 

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Fun With Randomizer
Brian St. Pierre has written something up that may be useful to members of the randomizer network:  Putting the Randomizer Referers page in your Cloud Links - thanks Brian! [jenett.radio] 

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Mike Watkins is thinking about a spamfree comments section for Radio.  I guess the e-mail address (if you are using Radio) would be replaced with a link like:

http://radio.xmlstoragesystem.com/rcsPublic/mailto?usernum=0001026

or John Robb [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

 

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Active Render - Nice Tool
Marc Barrot:  "activeRenderer Upgraded To 1.0rc2. The reports from early users of activeRenderer (68 have registered so far) gave me enough information to move to version 1.0 Release Candidate 2." [jenett.radio] 

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Kit Suite: Something I Need To Test
Kit 1.1.6.

Kit 1.1.6 is out. It adds a Radio to the Past form bit to the weblog post page, and incorporates a couple minor minor fixes I'm going to let the Kit page claim I released as 1.1.5.

I've not been spending a lot of time in Radio-land lately, and will have to carefully consider it, since I may be ditching Windows in the not too distant future. I've invested enough in Radio that I should probably keep using it, but sunk time is a bad decision-making factor.

[Mark Paschal: Kit] 

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Radio Outliner To Presentation Tool
Announcing: "The RadioPoint Tool turns the outliner into a presentation authoring program." [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand] 

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FrontPage And Radio
David Berry: Working with FrontPage and Radio. [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand] 

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Radio Tinkering, Friends' Sites, YACCS Problems
While experimenting with both the Radio and YACCS comment systems, spent time reviewing both Craig's and Nancy's individual real estate sites and their new Bonny Doon community site. Craig was the programming wizard who kept our business running on the VAX for years.

The YACCS system was down for several hours, just at the time I was trying to swtich back from Radio comments to YACCS. I'd prefer to use Radio comments, but there is no alert mechanism. YACCS lets me subscribe to an RSS feed to monitor any comments left on the system.  

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Still more tinkering with Radio UserLand 8
More template work on the second template for the FTP test site. Define directives in #prefs.txt and change template macros so that category name and description will render properly on pages other than the home page. 

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Radio v. Sleep
Tinkering with Radio UserLand 8 can be very distracting. I really need to go to bed at a decent hour, which this is not. 

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jenett.radio.randomizer
Added the jenett randomizer this morning. 

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Radio UserLand v. Wallet
Purchased my copy of Radio UserLand 8 after 15 day evaluation. Don't need to wait the full 30 days, I'm convinced. 

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I stopped using categories after a successful test, but if I start again...

Added category listings to each post.

Anyone reading this blog can now see which categories I've posted to for each post. I think categories are a powerful feature of Radio - they let me route content to separate blogs (for instance, to post something to Radio for Lawyers I just send it to that category, Radio takes care of uploading it to the right place). But it hasn't always been apparent to visitors to the site that there are ways of looking at just the content that they care about.

Many thanks to Roland Tanglao who pointed me to the comments at Jake's site that explain how to do it. It's simple - just drop a file into your Macros directory, then add one line to your item template. Took less than five minutes. (Roland's site is worth visiting for KM issues, by the way, and Jake's a developer at Userland who's got a number of good things to share re: Radio and blogs in general.)

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

 

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Automatically add post titles
I'll probably add this feature. Making a note so I don't lose it. 

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Alternative Comment System For Radio
Added the YACCS comments system. Too late at night early in the morning to play with it further. 

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Kit Suite Radio To The Past
This was my first test, so maybe I missed something in the documentation. Moving a post to the past does not create and uplink an archive page for the target date. No link appears in the calendar on the public home page or the Desktop Website home page. The archive page from which the post was moved (the source page) is upstreamed. If I manually create a {day}.txt file as the archive for the target date, that new file is upstreamed. A link then appears in the public home page calendar, but not in the calendar on my Desktop Website home page. This is repeatable. If I move the post again, the same situation is repeated.

I need to test this further, but sleep comes first... 

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