29.09.2008: Linkdump: The Atom-Publishing Protocol

Da ich gerne endlich Blog-Einträge von der Kommandozeile aus verfassen möchte, habe ich mich gestern abend trotz bisher recht magerer Ergebnisse nochmals hingesetzt und tatsächlich ein paar Artikel zum Themas "Atom Publishing Protocol" aka AtomPub ausfindig machen können. Mithilfe dieser werde ich innerhalb der nächsten ein größtenteils auf die Kommandozeile abzielendes Script zusammenbasteln, welches mir ermöglicht, einfach in irgendeinem x-beliebigem Editor einen Text zu verzapfen und diesen dann auf Zuruf zu "publishen", d.h. also automatisiert in einem meiner Weblogs zu veröffentlichen ;)

08.09.2008: Quick'N'Easy blog editing

For quite a while, it's been getting a big problem for me: How to quickly and easily submit a blog post - whether its in here using Habari or any other blogging platform.

I recently stumbled over hl--, which describes itself as: "Designed for people who are comfortable SSHing to their web server, and making updates with a text editor" - great concept! Thats what I've been searching for - but not as yet another blog software, but for getting my thoughts and side notes quickly published.

Thus, I'm currently in the process of hacking something together that'll handle the following tasks:

  1. Fetch given text file that contains a pre-formatted, new blog post
  2. Upload it using different methods, starting from down-to-earth FTP access, up to HTTP-PUT and AtomPub
  3. Parse the incoming data and publish (or save it as draft) it at a given date and time - or right now

On a side-note rant: Why isnt there a simple to use PHP class, app or something for using the bloody AtomPub protocol?!? I'd lovingly use this protocol as it gets shipped with Habari, but thanks to this short-comings, its going to be a loooong way before I get the chance of implementing this into above mentioned app :(