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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)Footbridge, a Radio Userland tool released as shareware by Mark Paschal, makes it easy to mirror a category to Advogato, LiveJournal, and services that support the Blogger API (such as Moveable Type). I'm using it to publish an Advogato diary from Radio Userland. Any post I publish to my Advogato category shows up on Advogato. ... (read more)Now that I'm puttering around with XML-RPC and the Apache XML-RPC Java class library, the most common problem I encounter is XML that Apache's XML-RPC client can't parse (usually because of problems with the XML). On the radio-dev mailing list, Matt Croydon of PostNeo recommended a great Windows utility that can spy on XML-RPC, HTTP, and other networking operations: TCPTrace by Simon Fell. The program runs as a proxy server, passing requests to the right server and port, receiving the response, ... (read more)Scott Rosenberg says that Salon is working with UserLand to get personalized URLs on Salon weblogs. If you're one of the people who isn't using Radio Userland because of the numeric URLs, you can either publish your weblog on the free Python Community Server or use FTP to publish it to any URL you like. ... (read more)Radio Userland is now available in French and Italian . A subscription to the French version includes hosting at a new server, LeWeblog.Com. ... (read more)More good news: UserLand has released a Radio Userland bug fix for the problem handling entries that use entities to present sample HTML (like this: <BR>). ... (read more)UserLand has issued a new Radio.root file to fix the first-of-the-month bug and apologized for the delay in addressing the problem. In my experience, UserLand has been pretty responsive about bug fixes once they recognize the severity of a problem. That's why the me-too posts help in the Radio Userland support forum. It's tough to distinguish between problems that are locally created -- such as my difficulty upstreaming through Norton Personal Firewall -- and genuine bugs in Radio Userland ... (read more)Brian Graf, Bryce Yehl, and other Radio webloggers are running into "first-of-the-month" bugs that cause bizarre errors when they publish for the first time during a new month. ... (read more)Great new service: Phillip Pearson has added RSS support to his Comment Monitor, enabling anyone to use RSS to keep up with new comments posted to a Radio Userland weblog. ... (read more)One of many weblogging tools you'll find here on Phillip Pearson's server is the Comment Monitor, a way to check a Radio Userland weblog for comments. I used it this morning to discover around six or seven responses that never went anywhere because I completely overlooked them. Radio servers ought to generate an RSS feed of the 15 most recently-posted comments. David Bayly has an RSS tool for Manila that does this, which I've been using for a while as a fast way to keep up with the message ... (read more)
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