Myelin: Radio Dev

International characters

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:44:28 GMT

Testing Radio's handling of international chars, and also its XML-RPC implementation. Can it send UTF-8, or will it send ISO-8859-1 and mangle everything?

Héhé... est-ce que ça marche?

日本語を書けるの？

Hmm, upstreaming failed. I can't see any errors in the pycs.net log though. Why not?

Hey, cool, it worked just fine! Radio converts unicode chars into entity references! So it looks like Radio is OK with the Topic Exchange client -- I just need to get Movable Type to generate proper XML.

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PyCS search + Radio

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:20:18 GMT

OK, you can now search this weblog, thanks to Python Community Server's new search engine. (I just hacked together a Radio tool to send the posts over to the community server).

Not all the post information is being sent just yet, though -- right now the dates and URLs are all broken. You can see the text, though.

Release testing

Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:01:51 GMT

I think the topic exchange client is more or less ready for the beta testers.

If this post works, I'll give it to them and see what they think.

Want to help test? Sign up for the mailing list (there's a link in the yellow box) and you'll get instructions.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:58:19 GMT

hmm, the "this post appears" lines shouldn't appear in excerpts ...

good. now let's see what happens if i edit the post and re-ping ... does it update? this is going to be a right pain in the ass to get going properly.

hey, great, it worked! all i need to do is open the post and click 'OK'. with any luck the timeout will kick in and stop this working (without an explicit login) an hour or so after the post has been made.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:52:03 GMT

foo

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btw

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:00:31 GMT

it's interesting to be working in Radio again. writing this way has a feeling of speed compared to using emacs over a ssh connection (which is how I write second p0st). having a small edit inside a larger page gets annoying at times -- page up and page down don't do what i expect -- but apart from that it's pretty good.

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topics line in the middle of a post

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:20:22 GMT

good - the topic list at the end of that last post updated properly.

now for a tricky test: a topic list in the middle of a post. steps to do this:

write a post (in Radio)
assign it some topics in the client
edit the post and add some more text below the topic line
assign it some more topics

hopefully it should end up with the new topics showing in the topic line, which is now in the middle of the post.

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this is part #3.

O-K-! finally got that working. final test: change topics to just 'collaboration'.

great! it worked!

so, now you can:

see a list of your posts, with 'topics' buttons next to them.
click on a 'topics' button to get a window with the post contents, an excerpt, a list of topics, and "ping", "add topics line", "cancel" buttons.
click on some topics and "ping" to ping them all.
click on some topics and "add topics line" to add the "this post appears in ..." lines

to do:

make it remember which topics you used
change the buttons to 'apply', 'ok', 'cancel'
add un-pinging
etc ...

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:17:44 GMT

odd. the channel pages were broken on my local copy of the Exchange. when did that happen?? it was referencing an exception (db.InvalidLogin) that hadn't been defined yet. that's an error that should have shown up straight away - not now. why didn't my auto-test find it? don't errors return http-500 responses when I use cgitb?

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:13:33 GMT

argh, damn, radio just downloaded the trackback update and actually started pinging the channels i've been using for testing. just went and deleted the bad pings. in future, the urls will point back to the dev server!

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see if we can detect the topics line properly

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:09:10 GMT

here's a dummy post with a single line. once i add the topics line, it'll have two lines. let's see if i can change the topic line without adding a new one ...

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:46:55 GMT

Testing the topic exchange client ...

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it has trouble figuring out if it's already put that message in there.
the pings have been sent, but to the development server, so they don't show up if you follow those links above.
the 'totally f...ing ridiculous' topic name is not valid, or at least that url isn't.

Progress ...

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:38:45 GMT

Right...

I should have a nice Topic Exchange client working in a minute.

If this shows up in the topic_exchange channel, it's going.

Testing Radio TrackBack to the Topic Exchange

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:31:05 GMT

I think I just got the Topic Exchange generating exactly the right output for Radio to be happy pinging it.

With any luck, this will show up on the topic_exchange channel.

This post appears in channels: topic_exchange, topics_in_weblogs

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:28:19 GMT

And it worked!!!

This one has a title.

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:27:34 GMT

OK, and I get a "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "title" hasn't been defined." in weblogData.posts.[00000067].trackback.outbound.urls.[http://home.topicexchange.com/t/test/].errorstring now. Is it because the last post didn't have a title?

Test.

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:25:32 GMT

Haha - reason found. Radio doesn't like it when I misspell dc:identifier as dc:identifer :-) Test.

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:46:53 GMT

Hmm, doesn't it like the RDF?

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:43:08 GMT

That didn't work. Let's try manual trackback for the moment.

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:40:55 GMT

Tracking back to the Topic Exchange test server ...

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 05:45:18 GMT

how about pinging a post on my own server?

test

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 05:43:24 GMT

Radio trackback test

Testing

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:51:38 GMT

Ping!

TrackBack

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:28:41 GMT

Jake says Radio does outbound TrackBack now. That means we should be able to get it going with the Topic Exchange. How convenient! Will be testing this out ASAP.

I've been working (on and off) on a Topic Exchange client, which sits in the background, periodically checking your blog for new posts with the metaWeblog API, then pops up when you post something, gets you to pick some topics, and pings the Topic Exchange. But if Radio does TrackBack by itself, that'll nicely shortcut the process for the time being.