March, 2005 Archive

While I was at it, the Moveable Type API seemed quite close, so I created a little module to start implementing it.

The more advanced features of the MT API I havent implemented (yet), but one thing is supported from the beginning, which is the Extended Entry.

Continuing the work on the metaweblog api implementation in Xaraya, i just finished an initial implementation of the newMediaObject method the API.

This allows (from capable clients) to upload files to Xaraya directly from the blogging client program.

Like this:

Brought back the metaweblog api module and activated it on this blog.

The metaweblog api in Xaraya is incomplete, but the first result is there: multiple category support, directly from the blog client. (This post is in two for example)

I moved over my Moveable Type powered blog over to a Xaraya install. Long overdue, given that I am a developer on Xaraya, it is sort of obligatory to run the blog from that package.

I tried to mimick the old look as much as possible. While Xaraya is certainly more flexible and some things were much easier to do than in MT, I also noticed that the finesses of MT will take a while to move over.
Some things which will take some time to come back the full MT way:

• Trackback functionaliy; while Xaraya supports this, it will take some manual effort to get it to be a friendly player;
• Inline RDF Moveable type supports by default for autodiscovery;
• Some templating work is still left (like directly showing the older entries).
• The support for uploading images directly with blog postings
• The extended API support

The above is one of the reasons i moved over, so i have a real life itch to implement those things in Xaraya. We’ll see