Xpostulation

[tonybaldwin]

Hi,
I thought I'd leave an update on the progress of Xpostulate, the crossposting blog/microblog client I've been building.

Since last posting here, I've added a number of features, including the insertion of DW specific tags, posting via the xml-rpc api, posting to several more blog services (now includes: DreamWidth, LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, DeadJournal, Inksome, Scribbld, Iziblog, & WordPress...still looking to add blogger/blogspot), plus, I've added a feature for tweeting to twitter or denting to identi.ca (another microblog service, like twitter).
I'm looking into the facebook api to see about adding facebook status updates, as well.

Also, I've built install wizards for both Windows and Linux.

So...lots of progress has been made, and, yet, still more progress to come.



Additionally, I have created xpostulate for user support, development discussion, etc.

./tony

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posted with Xpostulate

Comments

[cesy]

Sounds cool. Are you planning to add reading features as well, or keep it lightweight?

[tonybaldwin]

I haven't really considered adding stuff like reading, friends management, icon management...I'm primarily writing this for my own use (and sharing, of course), and what I wanted when I started out was a simple, easy way to post to the various blogging sites on which I have blogs.
When I want to read, I either go to the relevant sites and read my friends/reading pages, or use an rss aggregator, like liferea or google reader.
Adding reading features would really require that I render html, for one thing, which would mean a lot more code (although there's certainly free/open sourced code out there I could "borrow" for that...hmmmm). Xpostulate is not a wysiwig editor (i.e., you have to insert html tags to post links and pictures, etc., for which there ARE tools built in), so it does not render html. I could have it download posts, which IS in the works, but you'd see stuff like:
<a href="http://baldwinsoftware.com/xpost.html"><img src="http://www.baldwinsoftware.com/images/xpostv02full.jpg" border="0" width="350"></a>
instead of the screenshot image that tag is meant to display.

Of course, I may eventually delve into adding more such features, and, being free/open source code, anyone is welcome to take what I've done and either a) collaborate with me/contribute more code to the project, or b) fork it/run with it and create something bigger and better.

[northern]

Sounds like a great job!

[tonybaldwin]

thanks