Radio Userland

Radio Hackers Becoming Hacked Off

Some Radio UserLand hackers are becoming discouraged by the sheer weight of the program's UserTalk code and the bugs, quirks, and complexities it contains. Mark Paschal, who offers help frequently on the customer support discussion board, says that it is "as jury-rigged a Rube Goldberg device as ever." Jeremy Bowers believes it need a "serious housecleaning." For those who haven't looked around Radio's object database yet, the program runs atop one of the most intricate, fascinating, and ... (read more)

2003/05/25

Restore a Radio weblog from a server backup

I'm working on a Radio UserLand Kick Start chapter about backing up a weblog and restoring it over a new installation of the software. I ran into a Catch-22 problem: You can't restore a weblog without updating Radio.root so that it is current, and doing that prevents the weblog from being restored correctly. As it turns out, Radio creates a new www/backups folder when Radio.root is updated. When you try to restore a weblog, Radio sees this folder and uses its files, rather than looking on the ... (read more)

2003/05/21

Pycs offers access control for Radio weblogs

Georg Bauer is extending the XmlStorageSystem API to support access control for the Python Community Server, the open-source clone of the Radio Community Server. ... (read more)

2003/05/15

Student exchange program offers Radio weblogs

An unusual Radio weblog community is being offered by AIESEC, a 50,000-member student organization that facilitates international work exchange programs in 80 countries. The weblogs, which are all run by AIESEC members, are part travelogue and part extremely multicultural college newspaper, such as Herry Purwanto of Indonesia's Ganggotri Hotel, which is named in honor of a friend's experience in India. This word means flowing water in the river (Hindi) but not because of that meaning, I use ... (read more)

2003/05/15

Oregon librarians tune into Radio UserLand

Oregon librarians are using a Radio weblog to collaborate on the development of Answerland, a "multi-type virtual reference service to bring librarians to patron desktops all over the state" (via The Shifted Librarian). ... (read more)

2003/05/14

Radio UserLand tech support via RSS

The Radio UserLand discussion group, the best place to receive user-to-user technical support on the software, now is available as an RSS newsfeed. ... (read more)

2003/05/13

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

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