Radio Userland

Erik Noble has found a security issue in how the Radio UserLand comments server associates names and e-mail addresses: If anyone posts a comment and puts your e-mail address in the Email field, their name will appear with your address on every comment you made in the past. Try it yourself by posting a comment on Erik's weblog with the e-mail address justsayno@tospam.com. ... (read more)

2003/02/16

As I dig out from under a backlog of reader mail, it reminds me how much of a grind Web maintenance can be. There are more than 2,000 pages on this site, which has evolved over the past seven years from Notepad-edited HTML to FrontPage Webs to Java servlets/JSP to, today, PHP/MySQL and Radio UserLand. Though new material is being added through PHP/MySQL Web applications or this Radio UserLand weblog, most of the older files are static HTML documents. I'd like to edit them locally and have the ... (read more)

2003/02/12

Mark Woods has stumbled upon an unusual feature of Radio UserLand: its internal Web browser (screenshot). ... (read more)

2003/02/06

Mark Paschal has released version 2.2.6 of Stapler, his Radio tool for creating an RSS feed by grabbing text from any Web page. It fixes a bug and adds a new scanner to read RSS feeds that can't be loaded by Radio's news aggregator. ... (read more)

2003/02/06

Itown, a new Radio Community Server, has been launched with its own personalized version of Radio UserLand. Site publisher Harvey Kirkpatrick wants "townblogs" to be published for towns and cities of all sizes. "Imagine one million hometown newspapers," he writes. "The need for good, fresh information about places goes still unfulfilled on the web." ... (read more)

2003/02/06

The version numbering for Radio UserLand is leading David Weller, Scott Hanselman, and Sam Gentile to think it hasn't been updated in almost a year. Radio UserLand is updated frequently through automatic middle-of-the-night downloads -- the Radio.root changes feed lists 15 updates in the last month alone. People who quit using Radio say often that there's no support. Where are they looking? UserLand programmers Jake Savin and Lawrence Lee participate frequently in the support and development ... (read more)

2003/02/05

As described by Jason Kottke, several news aggregators (including Radio) are disregarding a rule of HTTP 1.1 and promoting themselves in the referrer field. Unofficial patches have been offered to change this in Radio and AmphetaDesk. Part of Mark Paschal's Radio patch will be overwritten the next time UserLand updates the xml.rss.readService script. ... (read more)

2003/02/01

Jake Savin is looking for Radio users to test a new backup and restore feature: "It's a beta -- please help us test it out, but only if you're someone who's comfortable running beta software." ... (read more)

2003/01/31

New Radio UserLand feature: Previous and next day links. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

Scott Johnson has hit the 20MB limit on Radio UserLand's server, which can happen if you're publishing a lot of images or multimedia files. One way to deal with this is to set up Radio to publish some files to a second server using the upstreaming feature. I've set up Radio to automatically publish anything saved in a /Radio Userland/www/offsite folder to the Web hosting space provided by my ISP. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

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