DashBlog

Interesting...

June Tate — 2005-11-24T23:33:36-07:00

...on a related note, the previous post (and this one) have both been made through DashBlog itself on a Mac Mini running MacOS X 10.4.3, so it is likely not a problem caused by the update. More investigation is needed.

Additionally, I have heard reports about Blogger changing their API yet again -- I expected this. The current BloggerAPI and BloggerAPI2 are both broken specs and deprecated (IOW: DashBlog really shouldn't be using them). Code is in the works for ATOM support, which is a protocol that Blogger has moved to for remote posting, so hopefully that will help to alleviate Blogger-related problems.

Recent problems with the 10.4.3 update

June Tate — 2005-11-24T23:28:51-07:00

The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated...

Yes, DashBlog v0.12 is currently exhibiting a rather nasty bug: the 10.4.3 update from Apple has rendered it practically useless for those of you who have already upgraded. The symptoms of this is a failure to "upload" your post to your blog while DashBlog happily tells you that it actually succeeded.

I still have not had time recently to investigate the problem, but I fear that it may be a security update that Apple added that renders the entire method that DashBlog uses to communicate with the outside world useless. The end result could possibly be that DashBlog is rendered useless until I rewrite the posting code into a Dashboard plugin (not likely any time soon, as I have more pressing concerns at the moment).

That being said, I must remind you all that DashBlog is an open source project and is free for everyone to use and work on. If you have any JavaScript or coding abilities, please, by all means, open up the bundle and take a look at the code, see what you can find out/fix/change, and send me the patch for it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

New Stuff

June Tate — 2005-08-07T20:59:18-07:00

Hi all -- we're not dead just yet. =o)

In fact, I've been working on several new features on DashBlog, and a few showstopper bugs. I'm also adding in a few additional APIs, and slowly working on a migration from the old BloggerAPI that Blogger used to use to the brand new ATOM API.

So what does this meant to you? Well, Blogger-hosted blogs will now be more flexible, MovableType blogs will be fully supported, and DashBlog will no longer rely solely upon one kind of protocol to do it's work, which means more flexibility for you.

The ETA for this release is unknown as -- as some of you have heard -- Real Life™ has decided to exert its influence upon my free time lately (read: my Mom is in a very precarious situation health-wise, and work has decided to push a brand new project upon my team before the first one was complete). So far, I'd say I'm about 20% towards completion of this next revision, as the form generation code has finally matured a bit to provide more field types other than just text fields.

If I have a free moment, I'll see about packaging up an interrim release to fix many of the bugs you have all been reporting lately -- I'm still listening. =o)

Hang in there. =o)

RSS Feed Available

June Tate — 2005-05-31T06:01:33-07:00

I've finally made the RSS feed for this blog available at http://dashblog.theonelab.com/blog/rss, so you can stay more up-to-date than by manually checking the site. Have fun! =o)

Codeless Feature Addition

June Tate — 2005-05-30T07:07:47-07:00

Hey, folks, guess what? It turns out that the current version of DashBlog already has spell checking! Just control-click in the body and choose Spelling, and then one of "Spelling...", "Check Spelling", or "Check Spelling as You Type". Simple! =o)

Now all I have to do is figure out how to make it check as you type automatically... =op