Jed - Gecko Powered

Wow

2006-03-20T02:45:16Z

Wow, this is the second link on Google for me.

Anyhow, you can find me here: Jedbrown.net

This blog is now only used for testing.

This is a test Draft Post edited

2006-01-25T05:13:02Z

This is a test post
This is a test Draft Post

This is a test post

2006-01-25T05:12:33Z

This is a test post

This is a boolean test publish (DRAFT)

2006-01-22T23:23:54Z

This is a boolean test publish (DRAFT)

This is a boolean test publish

2006-01-22T23:23:28Z

This is a boolean test publish

Movable Type API

2006-01-16T20:25:50Z

Movable Type User Manual: PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACES

« Table of Contents

PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACESXML-RPC API

Movable Type features a full implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API (where
applicable). The only two methods that are not supported by Movable Type are
getTemplate and setTemplate, due to the differences between Blogger's
template system and Movable Type's template system.

Spanish verison: http://www.weblogs.com.uy/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html
English: http://jaimbizzle.sourceforge.net/mt/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html

Movable Type also supports the metaWeblog XML-RPC API (also where applicable).

Finally, Movable Type also adds a couple of other methods of its own for
manipulating the categories assigned to your entries.

Usage of any of these XML-RPC APIs
requires that your webserver have both LWP::UserAgent and SOAP::Lite
installed; if yours does not, the Installation Instructions can tell you how
to install them.

Following are the XML-RPC methods supported by Movable Type:

blogger.newPost

Description: Creates a new post, and optionally publishes it.
Parameters: String appkey, String blogid, String username, String
password, String content, boolean publish

Return value: on success, String postid of new post; on failure, fault
blogger.editPost

Description: Updates the information about an existing post.
Parameters: String appkey, String postid, String username, String
password, String content, boolean publish

Return value: on success, boolean true value; on failure, fault
blogger.deletePost

Description: Deletes a post.
Parameters: String appkey, String postid, String username, String
password, boolean publish

Return value: on success, boolean true value; on failure, fault
blogger.getRecentPosts

Description: Returns a list of the most recent posts in the system.
Parameters: String appkey, String blogid, String username, String
password, int numberOfPosts

Return value: on success, array of structs containing ISO.8601
dateCreated, String userid, String postid, String content; on
failure, fault

Notes: dateCreated is in the timezone of the weblog blogid
blogger.getUsersBlogs

Description: Returns a list of weblogs to which an author has posting
privileges.
Parameters: String appkey, String username, String password

Return value: on success, array of structs containing String url,
String blogid, String blogName; on failure, fault
blogger.getUserInfo

Description: Returns information about an author in the system.
Parameters: String appkey, String username, String password

Return value: on success, struct containing String userid, String
firstname, String lastname, String nickname, String email, String
url; on failure, fault

Notes: firstname is the Movable Type username up to the first space
character, and lastname is the username after the first space character.
metaWeblog.newPost

Description: Creates a new post, and optionally publishes it.
Parameters: String blogid, String username, String password,
struct content, boolean publish

Return value: on success, String postid of new post; on failure, fault

Notes: the struct content can contain the following standard keys:
title, for the title of the entry; description, for the body of
the entry; and dateCreated, to set the created-on date of the entry.
In addition, Movable Type's implementation allows you to pass in values for
five other keys: int mt_allow_comments, the value for the
allow_comments field; int mt_allow_pings, the value for the
allow_pings field; String mt_convert_breaks, the value for the
convert_breaks field; String mt_text_more, the value for the additional
entry text; String mt_excerpt, the value for the excerpt field;
String mt_keywords, the value for the keywords field; and array
mt_tb_ping_urls, the list of TrackBack ping URLs for this entry.
If specified, dateCreated should be in ISO.8601 format.
metaWeblog.editPost

Description: Updates information about an existing post.
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password,
struct content, boolean publish

Return value: on success, boolean true value; on failure, fault

Notes: the struct content can contain the following standard keys:
title, for the title of the entry; description, for the body of
the entry; and dateCreated, to set the created-on date of the entry.
In addition, Movable Type's implementation allows you to pass in values for
five other keys: int mt_allow_comments, the value for the
allow_comments field; int mt_allow_pings, the value for the
allow_pings field; String mt_convert_breaks, the value for the
convert_breaks field; String mt_text_more, the value for the additional
entry text; String mt_excerpt, the value for the excerpt field;
String mt_keywords, the value for the keywords field; and array
mt_tb_ping_urls, the list of TrackBack ping URLs for this entry.
If specified, dateCreated should be in ISO.8601 format.
metaWeblog.getPost

Description: Returns information about a specific post.
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password

Return value: on success, struct containing String userid, ISO.8601
dateCreated, String postid, String description, String title,
String link, String permaLink, String mt_excerpt, String
mt_text_more, int mt_allow_comments, int mt_allow_pings,
String mt_convert_breaks, String mt_keywords; on failure, fault

Notes: link and permaLink are both the URL pointing to the archived
post. The fields prefixed with mt_ are Movable Type extensions to the
metaWeblog.getPost API.
metaWeblog.getRecentPosts

Description: Returns a list of the most recent posts in the system.
Parameters: String blogid, String username, String password,
int numberOfPosts

Return value: on success, array of structs containing ISO.8601
dateCreated, String userid, String postid, String description,
String title, String link, String permaLink, String mt_excerpt,
String mt_text_more, int mt_allow_comments, int
mt_allow_pings, String mt_convert_breaks, String mt_keywords;
on failure, fault

Notes: dateCreated is in the timezone of the weblog blogid; link
and permaLink are the URL pointing to the archived post
metaWeblog.newMediaObject

Description: Uploads a file to your webserver.
Parameters: String blogid, String username, String password,
struct file

Return value: URL to the uploaded file.

Notes: the struct file should contain two keys: base64 bits
(the base64-encoded contents of the file) and String name (the name
of the file). The type key (media type of the file) is currently
ignored.
mt.getRecentPostTitles

Description: Returns a bandwidth-friendly list of the most recent posts in the system.
Parameters: String blogid, String username, String password,
int numberOfPosts

Return value: on success, array of structs containing ISO.8601
dateCreated, String userid, String postid, String title; on
failure, fault

Notes: dateCreated is in the timezone of the weblog blogid
mt.getCategoryList

Description: Returns a list of all categories defined in the weblog.
Parameters: String blogid, String username, String password

Return value: on success, an array of structs containing String
categoryId and String categoryName; on failure, fault.
mt.getPostCategories

Description: Returns a list of all categories to which the post is
assigned.
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password

Return value: on success, an array of structs containing String
categoryName, String categoryId, and boolean isPrimary; on failure,
fault.

Notes: isPrimary denotes whether a category is the post's primary
category.
mt.setPostCategories

Description: Sets the categories for a post.
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password,
array categories

Return value: on success, boolean true value; on failure, fault

Notes: the array categories is an array of structs containing
String categoryId and boolean isPrimary. Using isPrimary to set the
primary category is optional--in the absence of this flag, the first struct
in the array will be assigned the primary category for the post.
mt.supportedMethods

Description: Retrieve information about the XML-RPC methods supported by
the server.
Parameters: none

Return value: an array of method names supported by the server.
mt.supportedTextFilters

Description: Retrieve information about the text formatting plugins
supported by the server.
Parameters: none

Return value: an array of structs containing String key and String
label. key is the unique string identifying a text formatting plugin,
and label is the readable description to be displayed to a user. key
is the value that should be passed in the mt_convert_breaks parameter
to newPost and editPost.
mt.getTrackbackPings

Description: Retrieve the list of TrackBack pings posted to a particular
entry. This could be used to programmatically retrieve the list of pings
for a particular entry, then iterate through each of those pings doing the
same, until one has built up a graph of the web of entries referencing one
another on a particular topic.
Parameters: String postid

Return value: an array of structs containing String pingTitle (the
title of the entry sent in the ping), String pingURL (the URL of the
entry), and String pingIP (the IP address of the host that sent the ping).
mt.publishPost

Description: Publish (rebuild) all of the static files related to an
entry from your weblog. Equivalent to saving an entry in the system (but
without the ping).
Parameters: String postid, String username, String password

Return value: on success, boolean true value; on failure, fault

NOTE: the value of appkey is ignored by Movable Type in all of the
Blogger XML-RPC methods.

You can use Movable Type's XML-RPC implementation with existing tools like
w.bloggar, BlogApp, BlogLet, BlogBuddy, Jericho, etc. For example, to set up
BlogBuddy to post to your Movable Type weblog, follow these instructions:

Download BlogBuddy from http://blogbuddy.sourceforge.net/. Unpack the archive,
and install the application.
Open the BlogBuddy application.
Select General Settings from the Settings menu. On the General tab,
enter your Movable Type username in UserName, and your password in
Password.
In the Remote Host tab, enter the name of the host where your version of
Movable Type is installed into Host name, and the path to mt-xmlrpc.cgi
into Endpoint. For example, if mt-xmlrpc.cgi is located at
http://www.example.com/bar/mt-xmlrpc.cgi, you should enter www.example.com into
Host name, and /bar/mt-xmlrpc.cgi into Endpoint. If your webserver
runs on a port other than 80, you should also change the port setting.
In the Blogs tab, click the Update blogs button; BlogBuddy will contact
Movable Type on your webserver, and ask it for a list of weblogs which you have
access to (using getUsersBlogs, above).
You can now post to your Movable Type weblog(s) using BlogBuddy's posting
interface.

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Sending a TrackBack Ping

http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec

TrackBack uses a REST model,
where requests are made through standard HTTP calls.
To send a TrackBack ping,
the client makes a standard HTTP request to the server,
and receives a response in a simple XML format (see below for more details).

In the TrackBack system,
the URL that receives TrackBack pings is the TrackBack Ping URL.
A typical TrackBack Ping URL looks like http://www.example.com/trackback/5,
where 5
is the TrackBack ID.
Server implementations can use whatever format makes sense for the
TrackBack Ping URL; client implementations should not depend on a
particular format.

To send a ping,
the client sends an HTTP POST request to the TrackBack Ping URL.
The client MUST send a Content-Type HTTP header,
with the content type set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
The client SHOULD include the character encoding of the content being sent (title,
excerpt,
and weblog name) in the charset attribute of the Content-Type header.

For example,
a ping request might look like:

    POST http://www.example.com/trackback/5
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
    
    title=Foo+Bar&url=http://www.bar.com/&excerpt=My+Excerpt&blog_name=Foo

The possible parameters in the request content are the following:

title

The title of the entry.

Optional.

excerpt

An excerpt of the entry.

Optional.

The permalink for the entry. Like any permalink, this should point
as closely as possible to the actual entry on the HTML page, as it will
be used when linking to the entry in question.

Required. If a client neglects to send a url, the server MUST respond with an error message.

blog_name

The name of the weblog to which the entry was posted.

Optional.

All of the fields provided MUST be in the character encoding specified in charset.

There are no length restrictions on the above fields inherent in the
TrackBack protocol, but server implementations are free to crop or
ignore any of the above fields.

In the event of a succesful ping, the server MUST return a response in the following format:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <response>
    <error>0</error>
    </response>

In the event of an unsuccessful ping, the server MUST return an HTTP response in the following format:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <response>
    <error>1</error>
    <message>The error message</message>
    </response>

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No draft support in Live journal?

2006-01-12T06:16:54Z

NO draft support?

This is a bool 1 test #5 draft

2006-01-12T06:16:32Z

This is with a boolean as 1 #5 *draft*

This is a bool 1 test #4 draft

2006-01-12T06:11:18Z

This is with a boolean as 1 #4 *draft*

This is a bool 1 test

2006-01-12T05:54:50Z

This is with a boolean as 1

Test #4

2005-12-23T11:00:23Z

Test #4 baby.. empty technorati tags

Technorati Tags:

Another test #3

2005-12-23T10:59:55Z

Cool. I like live journal!
The Blogger API works well minus the crap title issue.

Technorati Tags: firefox , performancing , mozilla , pff

Another test

2005-12-14T00:10:38Z

Cool. I like live journal!
The Blogger API works well minus the crap title issue.

New post test edit1

2005-12-12T23:27:16Z

New Post test
*edit #1*

Post via Blogger API

2005-12-09T18:57:48Z

Sorry, still testing out the blogger API for livejournal!

Post via Blogger API

API working #2 with title

2005-12-09T18:53:59Z

API is working great!
Beautiful!

Sorry for the testing spam if anyone is following this blog still.
You shouldn't be ;) As this is my new blog.

Very cool

Nice

Formatting works

Api is working!

2005-12-09T18:52:24Z

API is working great!
Beautiful!

Sorry for the testing spam if anyone is following this blog still.
You shouldn't be ;) As this is my new blog.

jedbro @ 2005-12-09T12:45:00

2005-12-09T18:45:08Z

Testing blogger API with LiveJournal!

Untitled

2005-11-27T19:03:07Z

This is a test, testing out the flock blog editor.

My blog moved

2005-04-15T05:35:50Z

I realize some people are still coming here.
I finally got my blog up on my server, so much easier to admin from there.

Please update your bookmarks and head to my new blog.

FUD from Cnet regarding Firefox

2005-02-16T22:18:15Z

Just when I thought the old days of bad articles regard mentioning Firefox and Mozilla were over, (recent cnet articles have been positive), some Molly Wood on C|Net posts the most ridiculous article titled "IE 7: so much for Firefox", that I have read in years.

Excerpt: "It was bad when Microsoft seemed to ignore Firefox, treating it like a harmless upstart not worthy of comment or attack. But now that the sleeping giant has awakened, I think the buzzing gnat of the browser wars is about to be squashed flat."

Pathetic!
Head over there and let Molly know she needs to stop writing Tech Articles she knows nothing about.

WebMailCompose 0.6 preview

2005-02-14T18:57:19Z

WebMailCompose 0.6
is just around the corner, I have what I believe will be the release but would appreciate any feedback before pushing it out on all the current users.

You can install it here.

New features include:

MacOS bugs fixes
Mailto links in mail compose twice fix
Localization (english only so far)
TBE conflicts fix
New option to open in Tab/Current Tab/Window
Gmail now works for all WMC upgrades
Settings window is now resizable
More minor bug fixes....

If you'd like to localize WMC in your language, please head here and translate the files found in the directory and mail them my way.

Cheers
-Jed

XULPlanet Mozilla Search Plugin

2005-02-10T17:37:14Z

I've been spending more and more time on Firefox extension development these days as I'm currently working on some comercial extenions.
(Yes, I know, I need to update my current extensions, and I promise I will, but the extra cash is my priority right now, then I'll have all the coffee I'll need :D)

While doing so, I realized just how much I have come to rely on XULPlanet and it's excelent resources and it came to my amazement that there is currently no XULPlanet search plugin for mozilla (atleast that I could find).

So I took the chance, and whipped up a XULPlanet Search Plugin , which seems to work well in both Firefox and Mozilla.
This should be a must for any extension dev who uses their references as much as I do.
I've just submited it to Mycroft, so hopefully it will apear there soon.

You can go here to install it.

If anyone finds any errors, please let me know.

WebMailCompose 0.6Dev

2005-01-24T06:34:20Z

I just updated WebMailCompose, I havn't released it yet, as this is only a dev version.

I believe I have fixed 3 main issues for this release that will be 0.6 once a few features are added.

The fixes so far are:

Compatibility with Gmail is fixed
TBE conflict has been resolved
Left-Click on MacOS should work now.

Please test it out and let me know if indeed these fixes are working for you.

[ Install 0.5.8 Dev ]

Cheers
-Jed

TheOpenCD 2.0

2004-12-11T01:52:32Z

On Slashdot today they announced that TheOpenCD 2.0 has released.
For those who don't know any better, TheOpenCD is a small collection of only the highest quality OSS for Windows (CDex, TB, Fx, Mozilla, gimp, gaim, etc.), easily available on a CD. The programs are carefully selected to ensure stability, ease of use and a clean install and un-install from your computer.

What makes this a more noteworthy post is that this version (2.0) now contains a Launchable Menu with info on all the listings, of which, is based on Gecko (yay!).

I have yet to download the cd, but it looks as if (under windows and with AutoRun enabled) a customized version of gecko (xulrunner perhaps?) launches a window that lists the content.

Pretty cool stuff, you can check out some of the screenshots they have available if your not planning on download it.

Jed - Gecko Powered

Wow

This is a test Draft Post *edited*

This is a test post

This is a boolean test publish (DRAFT)

This is a boolean test publish

Movable Type API

Movable Type User Manual: PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACES

Sending a TrackBack Ping

No draft support in Live journal?

This is a bool 1 test #5 draft

This is a bool 1 test #4 draft

This is a bool 1 test

Test #4

Another test #3

Another test

New post test *edit1*

Post via Blogger API

API working #2 with title

Api is working!

jedbro @ 2005-12-09T12:45:00

Untitled

My blog moved

FUD from Cnet regarding Firefox

WebMailCompose 0.6 preview

XULPlanet Mozilla Search Plugin

WebMailCompose 0.6Dev

TheOpenCD 2.0

This is a test Draft Post edited

New post test edit1