Author Archives: brad

Back from Stone Harbor (actually,

Back from Stone Harbor (actually, I have been for a few days now). Will post more later. Got some of the software upgrades I need to continue serious development on Frequency. I’m finally posting from a built application and it’s pretty cool. We’ll see if the publish option works now.

I am continuing work on

I am continuing work on the Blogger API in REALbasic, and making quite a bit of progress. So far I can send new posts (the most important part of the program, really), get a list of a user’s weblogs, and I wrote a link manager, so if there are certain links you use often, you can store right in the program. The biggest problem I’m having is that sometimes I can send a new post, but it fails to publish. After a look of work on my part, I found out via the BloggerDev mailing list that due to an internal change, publishing from external tools calling to the Blogger API is likely to fail for the next week or so. Kind of annoying, but at least I feel better knowing that my code isn’t the problem.

For what it’s worth, I’m posting this from the 0.1a2 (early alpha 2) version of the program. It should be in beta sometime next week (assuming certain software upgrades on my part). If you would like to help with beta testing, please email me. All you need is a weblog through Blogger with the FTP username and password saved on Blogger’s server.

Hmmmm . . . I just realized, by using the program for this post, that I forgot to add a “Select All” method to the link editor. Back to work . . .

Ah, yes. Welcome to Gateway

Ah, yes. Welcome to Gateway country. This story made me laugh out loud. My friends and I were outraged that the guy was arrested. My dad was really pissed about it.

Behind the Slashdot Phenomenon. Interesting interview with Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, of Slashdot fame. Every time I read what Malda has to say, I marvel out how lucky the guy is. Not to say that the code behind Slashdot isn’t cool, but this guy was in the right place at the right time in a big way.

It’s been an interesting week since my last updates. Of course, I spent a good chunk of today implementing the Blogger API in REALbasic, which is why I have all those “Hey, it works!” posts from earlier today. XML-RPC is awesome technology.

Last Wednesday, Jen’s grandfather passed away. We saw him on Father’s Day, and he seemed quiet, but we had no idea how sick he really was. He went to work on Wednesday morning and at some point put his head down on his arms and fell asleep at his desk. He never woke up. The funeral was Saturday, but it took a while to get to that.

Today is my 8th anniversary with Jen, and we went away to the Inn of the Dove in Harrisburg on Thursday and Friday night. We had reservations we couldn’t cancel, but we didn’t want to miss the viewing on Friday night. Jen’s grandmother firmly told us not to cancel our plans, but to go ahead, so we did. But on Thursday afternoon, my lawn suddenly got covered with sewage. Jen’s dad said that he would take care of it, and not to cancel our plans.

So on Friday, which is also his birthday, Jen’s dad spent most of the day fixing my plumbing and dealing with his father’s death.

We had a really good time at the Inn of the Dove, though.

We finally got the finishing touches to the plumbing done Saturday night, but not before I grabbed a piece of VERY HOT copper and burned the crap out of my right hand.

Here’s hoping that my next post will be done with my new Blogger app. Next step after that: Manila RPC so that my teachers can upate their Manila sites really easily. Should be very cool.