Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

Playing with ecto 3 alpha - looks pretty good so far.

Hopefully it handles the RTF/HTML conversion process a bit better than ecto 2.

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I came across a strange issue today. I have written a script that adds acronym tags to a post created in ecto, and another that adds the currently playing iTunes track, as nice links to iTMS.

However, the problem that arose is that the script wouldn’t run. I had the shebang line, and everything, but no joy.

Then I noticed that I have upgraded my python installation to 2.5, but for some reason the /usr/bin/python was still pointed at 2.3 - but my interpreter run from the bash shell, or from Komodo was 2.5. This itself wouldn’t be too much of an issue, except I was using appscript, and I had only installed appscript into the 2.5 Python installation library.

So, it was failing (way too silently, for my liking), and I couldn’t tell why.

All fixed now, though.

Fly Me Away • Supernature • Goldfrapp

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I’ve been getting errors when trying to upload images via ecto, an XMLRPC client.

Method “metaWeblog.newMediaObject” produced a server error: “server error. requested method metaWeblog.newMediaObject does not exist.”.

I’m not sure if this is due to a new version of ecto, or something that’s broken within ecto. I’m downloading some other editors to try it out, but over dialup…

Careless Whisper (w/ R. Wainwright) • Ben Folds • Wolf Trap 6-29-04 ★★★★

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I’m having trouble posting with ecto. Seems to be a problem at my end, too. I can’t post at all anymore, it freezes after parsing the document. It used to post, and then get some sort of a fail on server connection, but I don’t even get that far now.

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This is a test of the XMLRPC interface. I think Ronan may have fixed it.

This is a single quote ‘
This is a double quote ”

This is an image:

Seance On A Wet Afternoon • “Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood” • John Barry

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Luis Suarez, over at elsua.net wanted to know how to get his posts out of Blogsome.

It’s really quite simple - all you need to do is use any XMLRPC offline composer that can get an arbitrary number of posts. ecto is a great example.

Then set it to get more posts than you have, and it will grab them all from the server. You may need to learn how to set it all up - I won’t go through that here, but if enough people comment, I will write a tutorial.
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I’m still not able to post with ecto on Blogsome: some of the functionality is there, but I get an error on posting. I might try MarsEdit or something else and see if that works, as w.bloggar does, apparently.

I’ve also stopped using Dvorak keyboard layouts, as it takes too long to learn to type, and I hate not being able to keep up with my thoughts.

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I cannot post via ecto, or any other offline client at the moment: Blogsome has disabled XMLRPC support, due to a security issue. Since they use Multi-User WordPress, there is not fix for this build as yet.

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There you go.

Visit http://schinckel.blogsome.com/software/, and then visit http://schinckel.blogsome.com/software/acronymmerpy/

No difference, even though there is a page in acronymmerpy/

I’ll put this in the blogsome forums when I get a chance.

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Taking into account the comments on PhotoMatt’s acronymit page (where I shamelessly stole some ideas, including the list of words!), I’ve modified acronymmer.py so that it:

1. Does not apply <acronym> tags to instances that have been acronymmed already.
2. Does not apply tags to instances that are inside href or title strings.
3. Does not save the file if no changes have been made.

Here it is, including my current acronym list. (I know some of these are Abbreviations, but ecto, and some browsers do not handle this tag).

Also, this code needs to be re-pasted - I was trying to make it (XHTML) valid, and it’s broken now.
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