Then you should download Maestro and see what you can do! You can also read more about Maestro on Apple’s Hot News page.
Post is finally here…
By compiling my own version of the XML-RPC.NET library as suggested by Charles Cook at this Yahoo! Group message thread, I am able to retrieve posts from the server! w00t!
Now I’ve been sorting out all the crap code I wrote blind beforehand that deal with showing post and editing post.
Orlando vacation photos
I’ve been a busy bee! This weekend, noot only I coded I also scanned and uploaded the photos from our vacation in Orlando last December. Enjoy!
Some Screen Shots
I’ve been blogging about my blogging tool project for awhile now and so far I’ve shown nobody anything. Well here are three screen shots that explain the project. By the way, I’ve named the project, and thus the application, TypeWriter.
This is the main screen of the application. The blogs you own are displayed on the left along with the categories associated with each blogs. The basic post entry fields are on the right. The three options near the bottom right are blog specific (similar to Categories) and are saved across for each blog across session.
This second screen shot shows the advance post data fields.
You will notice that there is no posts displayed in the tree view on the left. This is due to the date/time format problem I am having with TypePad and XML-RPC.
The only working toolbar buttons are: Connect, New, Delete, Bold, Italic, and Anchor.
And finally, this screen shot shows the misc. tab page.
As you can see, I’ve taken inspiration from a number of outstanding blogging applications such as Kung-Log/ecto, and NetNewsWire. I hope by combining the good features (IMHO) of all these applications I’ve created something good and usable to most bloggers!
Also obvious from these screen shots are that I need help in getting some toolbar icons. If anyone knows where I can get free toolbar icons for Windows, please let me know.
Update: All TypeWriter related posts are now in the ecto blog.
Quick Update
Got the XML serialization bit done. So now all the blog data (blog names, posts, categories, user info, etc.) are saved to XML file in local hard disk and can retrieved back on application startup. Now I just need to apply encryption to either just the user ID and password, or apply it to the whole XML file. You don’t want your ID and password in clear text now, do you?
Tomorrow I will be working on the encryption and if I have time I will migrate the ugly Advance Post dialog box into the main form using tabs.
Lost in Colonisation 