Saturday, 5 October 2002

What the -- ? OK, here I am, writing up the bzero API.  I run my upstreamer script that pushes all the files up to the web server, and it fails mysteriously halfway through.  Huh?  That hasn't happened before. Manual FTP session ... No space left on device. I am not having a good day. 11:44:45 PM    comment [][Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSuite" hasn't been defined.]

Argh! Oh no - fatal flaw in the metaWeblog API: it assumes you only have one weblog. Argh. So much for supporting that.  bzero lets you have an arbitrary number of blogs, and they can easily have conflicting postids. The bzero API is coming along nicely. 11:18:58 PM    comment [][Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSuite" hasn't been defined.]

metaWeblog and Blogger APIs Today I'm messing around implementing the metaWeblog API in bzero.  I'm wondering what to do with bz; it's been working fine for me with Second p0st and devlog, and it's nicely modular, so has lots of future potential.  Should I open-source it?  I was all set to do that a few weeks ago, and even changed the distribution script to upload the source to the website, but now I'm not sure. Anyway, the metaWeblog API.  It's the Blogger API, plus titles and links.  Apparently it will include anything you can put in RSS soon.  Presumably there'll be an extra function that we can call to get a list of all the RSS namespaces understood by the server. I wonder why the API doesn't replace blogger.getRecentPosts.  Three entry points (well, actually four) - why not five?  The Nucleus CMS lets you send titles and links in blogger.*, and sends them itself when you call blogger.getRecentPosts, but Radio doesn't seem to do this.  Time for a bzero API, just for that method ;-) 10:55:47 PM    comment [][Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSuite" hasn't been defined.]