Radio Userland

Woke up this morning to "Can't find a sub-table" errors in Radio Userland and "no space left on device" errors on the Linux server. For the New Year, I resolve to become a Luddite. Update: Radio Userland gets some really strange errors when upstreaming via FTP to a Linux server that some idiot has filled to 100 percent of disk drive capacity. Like these: Can't upstream because "Can't find a sub-table named "1558". Can't upstream because "Can't find a sub-table named "7369". Can't upstream ... (read more)

2003/01/02

"Radio has become a critical piece of my desktop," says Rick Klau, who is using it to write and publish content to four different Web sites on three domains. His full explanation does a good job of demonstrating the product's versatility. ... (read more)

2002/12/31

The PyCS developers have a nice tip for programmers communicating with Radio Userland or Frontier via XML-RPC: "Always send with US ASCII (to keep Frontier happy), and always put the encoding='iso-8859-1' bit in the ?xml element, to keep strict XML parsers happy." ... (read more)

2002/12/23

Radio Userland has been upgraded to support Really Simple Discovery (RSD), an XML-based protocol that enables weblog editing tools to easily find the Web services they can use to read and write a weblog. This ought to provide a nice boost to weblog editing clients -- especially if they are designed for non-technical users. A prospective weblogger would only need to know three things to get started: his or her username, password, and weblog address. This can get even simpler on Radio-style ... (read more)

2002/12/14

I've run into a strange error today when using Radio Userland to subscribe to the RSS feed for Ingo Rammer's weblog: "Can't open named stream because TCP/IP error code 11004 - Valid name, no data record of requested type. (DNS error)." ... (read more)

2002/12/09

Radio Userland tip: When referring to the URL of your weblog in a new post, use the macro <%radio.weblog.getUrl()%> instead of the actual URL (even in HTML tags). That way, if you ever move your weblog to a new URL, all references to it will automatically be updated when you republish the entire weblog at its new address. Watch out for one thing: Radio weblog URLs always have a trailing "/" character at the end of the URL (example: ), so you have to account for it when employing the macro. ... (read more)

2002/12/09

When you're tinkering with the design of your Radio Userland weblog, you should occasionally save it as a new theme so you have a backup in case you completely hose the tables or some other element of the design. I save versions of Workbench periodically with the current date in the name because I frequently screw up this site's table-heavy design when tinkering with it. Once you have saved the design, it can easily be restored by choosing it from the themes page. Last night, I made the mistake ... (read more)

2002/12/06

Lisa Guernsey, a relatively new Radio Userland weblogger, wrote a piece for the New York Times last week about launching a weblog and finding herself in a community where male voices predominate (via BlogRoots). ... (read more)

2002/12/05

Phillip Pearson runs down the early history of Radio Userland using cached UserLand pages from the Internet Archive, answering a question that's probably on the mind of many current users: Why the name Radio? I was a heavy user of Radio Userland's original MP3 queueing and playback features, broadcasting a Live365 station and using it to randomly cycle through my CDs. I may be digging out Music.root again to turn my copy of RU into a radio station -- I bought a U.S. Robotics SoundLink at a ... (read more)

2002/12/04

Andrew Bayer asks, "if Salon really does blow out all of their cash by the end of the month, what happens to us? Will we get moved to Userland's servers?" Migrating to a new Radio Userland server is easy. You fill out the software's Change Community Server form with the new community's URL and the password you want to use. Radio Userland will upstream your files to the new host. I don't think it will be necessary, but if Salon ever went belly-up, UserLand could offer the original Radio Userland ... (read more)

2002/11/20

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