ATTENGINE DOWN AGAIN. 

Trying to see if shutting dow will speed up a few downloads I have going here.

A WAY FIGHT COMMENT SPAM? 

How about replacing html forms with Flash ones? I'm pretty sure that the spambots out there wont know what to do.

A TEST FOR OPML EDITOR USERS #1 

This is the simplest of potentially many future tests:

Get your OPML Editor window open next to this browser, then hit the button.

Did it work?

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THANK YOU HOLLAND! :)

I fully expect this to work, as it works in much the same way as the CoffeeMug links work in Frontier-based sites. They 'hit' an address called 127.0.0.1, which for those of you that don't know, is wlays the address of the machine you are on locally. The only machine that knows to point to your local machine through that IP address IS your local machine. It's all relative. It's otherwise known as 'localhost' or just 'local'.

All this is well and good for interacting with the OPML Editor while on the same local machine, but I need to figure out how to effectively let an OPML Community member 'log in' to an OPML Community Server (basically the same software with different settings) and post to their blog - and manage OPML eventually - via some web-based tools built around Flash, HTML, AJAX, whatever, running on a variety of platforms. Digging around the stuff which is already there provides alot of clues to how to go about this, if you can program in UserTalk.

The thing is, I think, is that once this basic stuff is out in the open (which is already is - it can just be hard to find) then it will make it VERY EASY for lots of people with skilsl in other languages/platforms to work remotely with an OPML Community Server.

contd.. XML-RPC 

This could/should probably be done with XML-RPC, which Flash can handle 'quite' nicely. It does sockets connections etc. for XML to and from servers.

It's frustrating sometimes, to see glaring opportunities of functionality and features around tech which I don't know *enough* about, but others 'around me' do, when you really want to get things done and tested.

Maybe I might pull back from developing so much, and concentrate on formulating 'plans' of ideas, discussion and development by people who can do things five times faster than me. Hell, some people make that their living, having never been a developer. Ever. ;)

Of course, in reality, it's not that easy. Ho hum.

THOUGHTS ABOUT 'REMOPML TOOLS' 

I've been thinking about how I could create a way to post to my OPML server's blog from an HTML form or, more likely for me, a Flash form with nice buttons, running on my pc, pda or mobile

This functionality is rather like Radio, when you set it up to recieve calls from the outside world.

So, I'm doing some digging around to find the right verbs and parameters etc to 'do' the same things that buttons in the Editor do, such as:

Example Blog entry procedure (I think):

Open Today's Outline

New Entry

Insert text from form. [translate format?]

Save blog outline

[close window?]

You see, Dave left all the clues right there for us to build this. Every one of these functions has a button or menu option somewhere, which already has a script assigned to it to perform these required steps. Finding these scripts and opening them reveals alot of simplicity, even in a 'foreign' language.

Rogers Cadenhead's book 'Radio Kickstart' is very helpful to peek at how most/all of these things can be scripted in UserTalk. I would say that it possibly covers enough ground to say "Yes! That can work!" rather than "do it like this". All part of being a developer. People often forget how much learning and digging needs to happen, being one.

I wish there was a nice set of docs in opml format which could let me search this lot. Even better, an internal help-search engine in the OPML Editor would be great. Something that could tell me where to look when I search for a verb or string.

I'm thinking that I could send http requests to port 5337 on my server to do stuff. The trouble is, I don't know how possible, or secure that would be. Also dealing with being logged in and identifying myself might be a problem. Hmm.

Basically, I want to use OPML for blogging. But I don't - or can't - use the OPML Editor on all platforms. So, I want to use Flash or simple HTML, for mobiles, and 'hit' the port (or even port 80 - would that work?) with some custom verbnames and parameters.

Would this work? Is there anyone out there that might know? Or at least tell me 'NO! This can't be done!"

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ATTENGINE UP 

again

BLOGS.ATTENGINE.ORG DOWN 

Just giving the machine a rest and though the machine is nearly silent, you can still hear a little whirring. It will be moving it soon. Will let you all know when it's back. Probably tomorrow ;)

I was also thinking how cool it would be to be able to post to this (an OPML blog) from a mobile. And I think I just had an idea how to do this by using some flash apps on the server machine.

I will sleep on it.

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