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How to do server-side includes in Radio

Radio UserLand tip: There's a way to do a server-side include on a Radio page before it is published. To include one file within another, call <%file.readWholeFile(...)%> with the name and exact location of the file as the only argument. For example: <%file.readWholeFile("C:\Program Files\Radio Userland\www\footer.html")%> More information on file.readWholeFile is available from DocServer, a reference to Frontier and Radio verbs. ... (read more)

2003/05/07

Kick starting my Radio UserLand book

I'm getting lots of useful feedback since announcing Radio UserLand Kick Start last week. The response was insane -- around 50 weblogs linked to the news within a day, putting this site briefly on Popdex alongside Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum, iTunes, and other targets of transitory weblog love. The book now has a home page on this site with a table of contents and some of the spiel I used to persuade Sams Publishing to green-light the project. If I get their OK, I'll put another chapter online ... (read more)

2003/05/07

New Radio tool reads RSS on WAP phones

David Davies has developed a Radio tool that enables RSS subscriptions to be viewed with a WAP-enabled mobile phone. To see how it works, load his subscribed RSS feeds in WML format with your phone. ... (read more)

2003/05/02

Back from two weeks of Radio silence

An out-of-town trip last week highlighted the downside of a desktop-based weblogging tool. Though I'm happy with most aspects of Radio UserLand, I was in Dallas and couldn't connect to Radio remotely or recreate Workbench over a clean installation of the software. Manila, Moveable Type, and Blogger were looking pretty good while I was maintaining Radio silence. For my next world tour, I'm looking for the easiest way to publish a Radio weblog from any location. Chris Double's use of Radio under ... (read more)

2003/04/28

UserLand offered an object database API

Snappy the Clam challenges UserLand on the subject of open standards: Ask UserLand sometime how many competing UserTalk implementations there are. Also ask them where the documentation for the Frontier "object databases" are, so that you could write programs in a different language that access the root file. UserLand offered an object database API with the release of Frontier 5 for MacOS and Windows. There's no telling if it still works today, since it was released more than six years ago, but ... (read more)

2003/04/09

Puma pounces on Salon Blog

Salon's policy regarding the editorial content of its hosted weblogs is being tested by Puma, which is unhappy over a parody ad posted on Reverse Cowgirl. As Scott Rosenberg explained in an e-mail to the publisher: Our general policy is that bloggers are publishers and Salon does not and will not interfere with what bloggers publish except (as the terms of service say) if laws are broken. ... (read more)

2003/03/12

Ohio weblogger covers Kaptur controversy

Ohio resident Douglas Anders is covering the Marcy Kaptur controversy and how it unfolded in the media on his Salon Blog. There should be no surprise, at this point, that an interested local weblogger is doing a better job covering the story than the Washington Times, Fox News, and other media nabobs. Anders doesn't believe the controversy will turn into another Trent Lott situation for Kaptur, who represents part of his hometown of Toledo: She is very strong in union, minority, Catholic, ... (read more)

2003/03/10

Using Radio's default template in a new tool

Phillip Pearson offers a Radio UserLand tip for tool programmers: How to get a tool to use the default template on its Web pages. ... (read more)

2003/03/10

Keeping Salon alive, one vulture at a time

I'm launching a contest and giving away a free Salon subscription as first prize. To enter, set a new standard for bitterness, venom, or weirdness in premature anticipation of its demise. ... (read more)

2003/03/08

New interface offered for Radio UserLand

I'm writing this post using FM RadioStation, a new Windows application that provides a different user interface for Radio UserLand (screen shot). It can be used to publish a weblog, read RSS news feeds, and browse the Web (using a built-in version of Internet Explorer 6). I can't get the news reader to work, but the weblog publishing interface is impressive, and this is the first Internet Explorer-based browser I've seen that uses Mozilla-style tabs. I'll write more about it after I've had some ... (read more)

2003/03/07

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