Friday, July 23, 2004

Hey!

Just to remind everyone! July 30th is official System Administrators Appreciation Day !
The one day in the year when the hard-working, over-taxed and under-payed sysadmins of the world (like me) can really be aprpeciated!

Sysadmin Shirt!

 

 

Thinkgeek is hosting a special offer to help celebrate! I will get myself the T-Shirt to make the occasion (cause no one will buy me one, )

 

ThinkGeek Celebrates Sysadmins!

 

posted @ 12:57 AM | Feedback (3)

Oke.. after some extensive testing, I have decided to go for Blogjet. its faster and easier to use, I like its BlogThis plugin, and its far better in handling pictures, and uploading them to my ftp site. w.Bloggar just screwed this up every time.

I will have to pay for it though.. oh well..  :) It might well be worth it.

There is, however, a common blogtool bug that affects this software also. The blogger API specifies a method to retrieve previous posts.
This is defined as blogger.getRecentPosts.

The .text blog doesn't use the blogger API as an interface, but the  MetaWeblog API. It even thows a special exeption with a disclaimer to tools that incorrectly try to talk to it using blogger.getRecentPosts method.

But in MetaWeblog API, this method is named metaWeblog.getRecentPosts

Even when they are set explicitly to support MetaWeblog, many Blogging tools, including Blogjet and w.Bloggar, use the Blogger API method intead of the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts method, usually causing a "specifed cast is not valid" error.

This occurs when, for instance, you edit a post and try to repost it.
The workaround is to of course delete the post first, then republish it.

Unfortunatly, the bug is not well documented at all, though some people seem to be aware of it , perhaps this is the reason its still found in these two  common blogtools.

Of course these stardards are all rather fluent currently, and this doesn't help things, though MetaWeblog API has been around for a while now.

 

 

posted @ 12:05 AM | Feedback (13)