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Number of negative reviews of Radio Userland posted today on CNET.Com: 8 Number of negative reviews of Radio Userland posted today on CNET.Com by people who identified themselves: 0I wish I didn't like Radio Userland so there'd be at least one critic willing to go on the record. Sadly, I think it's wonderful software for programmers and non-designers who want to publish a weblog, read RSS newsfeeds, create outlines, and dabble in web services, XML, and XML-RPC. It has its faults -- the user ... (read more)

2002/04/06

New (to me): How to use Radio Userland as a Python IDE. ... (read more)

2002/04/05

An item about the Python Community Server appeared today on Daily Python. It will be interesting to see if the server gets much attention among Linux users. I suspect it won't until some open source client tools are available on Linux -- but then again, I didn't expect anyone to clone the Radio Community Server. ... (read more)

2002/04/04

The Python Community Server, the open source Radio Community Server that runs this weblog, now has a mailing list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to pycs-request@myelin.co.nz with the words subscribe pycs in the body of your message. ... (read more)

2002/04/04

Tip: How to move back to your original account on the main Radio Community Server. Last month I used Change Community Server to go back to my original Radio Userland weblog, and I was given a new user number and weblog instead. This tip sounds like it's a preferable way to switch back, though I'm not testing it out myself. ... (read more)

2002/04/01

If you're coming here from the ads on Google and Metafilter, this site is running new open source Python software to emulate the Radio Community Server. Visit these links to find out more: The Python Community Server (PCS) homepage The server's development weblog and daily weblogRadio Userland users can help by moving their weblog to the PCS. ... (read more)

2002/04/01

Here's the source code for ViewInstantOutlines, the Java servlet I described yesterday. It's public domain; feel free to make use of it. The cleanXML() method in the servlet is my unsuccessful attempt to fix a problem with an accented character found in Dave Winer's instant outline, which is viewable as XML but not by my servlet. Looking at the issue further, I think it needs to be addressed in the XSLT transformation rather than the servlet. ... (read more)

2002/03/31

I wrote a Java servlet to serve instant outlines in a web browser using Internet Explorer 6's built-in XML rendering engine and an OPML XSLT transformation written by Joshua Allen. No software is required on your end other than Internet Explorer 6. To use the servlet: http://www.cadenhead.org/servlet/ViewInstantOutline?opmlFile=URL Replace URL with the address of the instant outline you want to view, which can be figured out by looking at the OPML coffee mug URLs on different Radio Userland ... (read more)

2002/03/30

Charles Miller is working on a Java clone of the Radio Community Server. ... (read more)

2002/03/28

Tip: To get Radio Userland to read a local RSS file, don't use a local file:// URL (they don't work). Store it in the Radio Userland folder (or a subfolder) and use RU to serve it. For example, if the file is saved as appointments.xml in the main Radio Userland folder, subscribe to http://127.0.0.1:5335/appointments.xml with the News Aggregator. I'm using this feature to throw some things in the News Aggregator that I am scraping off the Web using Java. I'm thinking about throwing my ... (read more)

2002/03/27

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