Andre Venter: Radio

an app apart

Illustrated MT templates - August 14, 2003

Nice dissection of how templates in MT work. Need this for every blog system including Manila and Radio. "Tackling Movable Type templates and CSS for the first time can be daunting. The MT default templates contain four kinds of code: CSS, HTML, MT tags, and Javascript. I'm working on a little project to break it apart in an illustrated way. It's not exactly a Movable Type tutorial, but it does point out where divs are and what the tags look like in code and rendered in the browser. If you...
http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/007806.html#007806

Radio UserLand Kick Start on backups - August 13, 2003

A new chapter of Radio UserLand Kick Start can be previewed on Workbench: Chapter 9, Backing Up Data. Though the standard disclaimers apply -- this is a pre-publication draft -- I spent a lot of time trying out Radio's backup procedures, sometimes by necessity when an experiment went awry. At this point, I've destroyed and rebuilt my 850-entry, 1,100-page weblog around a dozen times. Workbench
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/2003/08/13.html#a855

Turn Your Radio On - August 13, 2003

Thomas N. Burg points to info on PNG support in Radio. via the inimitable Schockwellenreiter
http://randgaenge.net/2003/08/13.html#a1863

Centralized CSS in Radio - August 11, 2003

"If you would like to centralize your Radio CSS you can simple save your Style sheet as "cascadingStyleSheet.txt" then place it in your "www" folder. Then simply add the <%cascadingStyleSheet%> macro to your template. Your CSS will be included where you included your macro." This method will work even if you create a theme out of your design.(via Bryanbell.com) Dewayne Mikkelson and his Radio WebDog, Shadow
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101015/2003/08/10.html#a1152

Wizzy-Mozilla on the way for Radio - August 11, 2003

I've got WYSIWYG editing working in my copy of Radio running with Mozilla on MacOS X. It should work with Mozilla 1.3 or greater, on all platforms. I'm using it right now to create this post. (Cool, heh) Here's a screenshot. In a lot of ways, it seems more powerful than the editor included with IE 5 and up (Windows only). For example, it's got multi-level UndoRe-do, and it uses inline styles to do its formatting, instead of the rather ugly HTML that IE produces. I'm planning on releasing a..
http://jake.userland.com/2003/08/11.html#a854

Export your blog to txt - August 11, 2003

Andy Fragen contributed a new tool to the Radio -Community, thanks - as always... thomas n. burg randgänge
http://randgaenge.net/2003/08/11.html#a1858

Radio, Trackback and Technorati - August 10, 2003

Steve Kirks was wondering "...if, with the new implementation of Trackback in Radio, the code exists to ping Technorati, too. I started perusing Radio.root and I think I found the right place: system.verbs.apps.weblogsCom As for now, people who use the web interface of Radio, just add this: http:rpc.technorati.comrpcping to the "URLs to Ping:" box on the Radio home page..." house of warwick Over at the Technorati Developer Wiki there's a HowTo page for most blogging tools, albeit with..
http://www.houseofwarwick.com/2003/08/09.html#a145

myRadio - August 9, 2003

myRadio "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." Lockergnome's RSS Resource
http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/software/006513.phtml

It's The Outliner, Stupid - August 9, 2003

Alan Kleymeyer of Social Dynamx (who I am sure is not stupid) commented on my desire for a lite Version of Radio which can be used to manage Manila sites. "SocialDynamX has cut their teeth on Radio with the release of FM Radio. Everything mentioned in this thread is a goal we have in our current project of bringing a "Manila lite" to market. Though initially we'll probably try to leverage the UI developed for FM Radio, we are open to suggestions and are at an early enough stage for.
http://www.bryanbell.com/2003/08/08#a637

Paolo Takes the Manila Editor to a new level - August 9, 2003

"...Creating a tool that allows you to edit on any image of your weblog simply by clicking it and having it opened with PhotoShop seconds later would be an easy task for Radio. Same thing for any piece of text (or, in perspective, audio or video).So this could be my long term wish for UserLand: allow us to manage our weblogs on-line with Manila (doing it server side has some significant advantages), and use the full power of Radio to make integration with local applications a unique experience..
http://paolo.evectors.it/2003/08/06.html#a1829