Radio Userland

Help filling a Radio weblog's sidebar

Julie Wiggins has written up some useful Radio UserLand newbie tips on "how to use the blank space under my calendar for phrases, other links, mysubscriptions (and anything else that I didn't want to put or couldn't figure out how to put into my navigator links) and how to align/center the text and change the font size of mysubscriptions.opml with a little help from the discussion boards and a friend at radio." ... (read more)

2003/05/12

Displaying random XML data with UserTalk

Peter Backx has created a UserTalk script that displays random pictures on the homepage of his Radio UserLand weblog. I created a modified version of his script to display random text links and am using it here on Workbench. If you're new to UserTalk, Backx's script is a nice short example that demonstrates how it can be used to read XML data. ... (read more)

2003/05/11

A Radio macro to display category links

Radio UserLand tip from Mark Paschal: How to add category links automatically to your home page. ... (read more)

2003/05/08

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

Coming soon: Radio UserLand Kick Start

Now that the book has been announced by the publisher, I can finally start talking about what I've been working on lately: Radio UserLand Kick Start will be published this summer by Sams Publishing. The book is for Radio users who want to move into the advanced Web authoring and programming features of the software. A draft of the first chapter, Publishing a Weblog, is online. There's an amazing amount of stuff you can do with the software -- I can't think of another $40 program that supports ... (read more)

2003/04/30

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

Developers outline their issues with OPML

Members of the OPML-DEV mailing list are discussing a proposed new version of OPML that would be more like other XML dialects, supporting child elements inside of the outline element in place of attributes. As I wrote on the list, OPML is extended in a way that's unusual for XML: Anyone can add new attributes to the outline element, as long as they give it a type attribute that lets programmers know what attributes to expect. This is an odd way to do things, as Danny Ayers explains on his ... (read more)

2003/04/11

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

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