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Happy 50th, Dave

Bill Humphries — Mon, 02 May 2005 07:00:00 +0000

The first version of this weblog ran on Frontier with a script that would crank out a static HTML page when I updated the site. Happy birthday, Dave, from a fellow Badger.

Blogger Relaunch

Bill Humphries — Mon, 10 May 2004 07:00:00 +0000

Woah, Blogger’s all grown up: permalinks, XHTML, and everything. Well done guys, well done.

And Dave, don’t whinge about Atom, just use XSLT. There’s even an XSLT engine that runs in Frontier/Radio.

XSLT for Radio/Frontier

Bill Humphries — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:00:00 +0000

In better news than the elections, Andre Radke released a beta of an XSLT processor for Frontier/Radio UserLand.

DaveNet : Our Deal with Salon

Bill Humphries — Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Congrats to UserLand and Salon on the launch of blogs.salon.com.

So if I have a Radio license and a Salon subscription, can I publish to the Salon’s RCS.

In unrelated news, PacBell and Covad have signed off on the new DSL line, I’m going to bring up the home network tonight.

Dave Revisits the Mac Cadre

Bill Humphries — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Some kind folks gave Dave Winer an iPod as a get-well present, and that’s prompted him to take a look at OS X.

Think Good Dave Thoughts

Bill Humphries — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Oh man, Dave Winer’s in the hospital. I don’t know which one, or why. If you’re the praying type, I know he’d appreciate it. If you’re not, then do like me and think get-well-Dave-thoughts.

Keep Radio running on MacOS X

Bill Humphries — Tue, 28 May 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Paolo Valdemarin set up a cron job to keep Radio running on OS X.

Radio UserLand Radio 8.0.8

Bill Humphries — Tue, 28 May 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Radio UserLand 8.0.8 is out now.

Spicy Noodles

Bill Humphries — Tue, 14 May 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Tonight’s Spicy Noodles gathering was fun. But it’s always fun to be in the company of smart people.

Since Paul Prescod, James Hong and Dave Winer were there, REST v. SOAP was discussed. There was a guy I hadn’t met before, Johathan (?) from Adobe, who explained if you connect to ‘choreographed’ Web Services, each of which was highly specialized and stateless, you can get around the state problem by managing state yourself. He said that’s the idea behind what Microsoft’s doing with BizTalk and “SLANG” (which I had not heard of before tonight.)

Joey De Ville, Canada’s Most Patriotic Accordian Player, favored the people of Palo Alto with a cover of AC/DC’s “She Shook Me All Night Long” as we clambered down University Avenue in search of an open coffee house.

The folks at the Apple Store didn’t know what to make of a small army with an accordian player coming into the Apple Store. Where, as fate would have it, my boss, his boss and most of the other managers in my group at work were hanging out after thier dinner.

Fortunately the staff recognized Doc, and all was well.

Everchanging Presence Publishing System

Bill Humphries — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:00:00 +0000

Presence is a web publishing system for Mac OS X. The backend is a server you run on your Mac. There’s an editing client written as a Cocoa app. Presence’s framework will be familiar to people who use Frontier’s web publishing framework. You can set up attributes at the folder level to control appearance, as well as access control by the client, and folders inherit attributes unless overridden. John Anderson, the developer, learned about building content management systems when he wrote the first version of the tool we use to publish Apple’s HR intranet.

Radio, meet Cocoon

Bill Humphries — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:00:00 +0000

Dave mentioned Tony Collen’s piping OPML through Cocoon. Cool stuff.

XSLT Support for Frontier/Radio

Bill Humphries — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:00:00 +0000

Last week I asked the Frontier developer’s list about support for XSLT. André Radke is looking at integrating the Gnome libxml2 and libxslt tools with Frontier.

This will be a boon for people who hate writing outline renderers!

Thanks André!

Radio Aggregator Driver for More Like This

Bill Humphries — Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:00:00 +0000

I spent part of the afternoon (hey, it was raining) working through Dave Babbit and Dave Winer’s implementation of the Radio Driver for reading the XML feed published by Macromedia, and built one of my own. I learned quite a bit about how you handle XML tables in Frontier.

This aggregator reads the extended XML format of my Weblog. You get the full markup of the post, as well as the date stamp and title.

Frontier/Radio users know the drill, save the page, load the object, and subscribe.

There are a few modifications I’d like to make:

Add metadata to weblog XML feed that identifies the author, weblog name, copyright.
Add versioning to the feed and the driver. The driver should look at the version attribute of the feed and advise the user if they need to upgrade the driver.
Sign the posts, just in case.

Radio UserLand : Geeky stuff: Driver architecture for the aggregator

Bill Humphries — Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:00:00 +0000

This is a test to see if my aggregator driver for Radio Userland works.

Frontier 8.0

Bill Humphries — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:00:00 +0000

Userland released Frontier 8.0 yesterday. In a related note, Brent Simmons is leaving Userland. Thanks to Brent for all his work on the platform.