Ree’s musings

In the interests of public knowledge (and curing my boredom), I'll be testing a variety of blogging clients. This means there may be many brief test posts today as I investigate various clients. Once I have gotten bored again or exhausted my list of candidates for testing, I will add each program and its official URL (or nearest equivalent) to the appropriate list on the Tabulas wiki. I am using an older, slower computer to do my testing, in case an installation or uninstallation process decides to defecate on my registry, so this may take awhile. Please bear with me.

First up: BlogJet. I entered my login data for Tabulas manually, selecting "Blogger API" from the end of the list. (When adding your Tabulas to a new blogging program, choose "Custom Blog" if they have that option and then choose whatever says "Blogger" but does NOT have a version of the Blogger.com icon. If the program works with Tabulas at all, that process should get it talking the right computer-language.) Host: api.tabulas.com Path: /blogger/

The interface is too large for my 800x600 resolution, but it looks nice. I can access my previously posted entries through the interface. (Were there changes to Tabulas' support of the API? Last I checked, in w.bloggar, categories weren't listed when accessing old posts but they are now.) There is no option to enter a post title, but typing at the top of the post, followed by a line return, should get the same result (I hope).

Time to publish. After that I'll try editing and republishing to ensure it works as desired. Then it's onto the next client program on my list.

Recieved error upon posting - post did go through but I thought otherwise until I checked my site. Error may be related to the code I attempted to use for title and categories. It crashed BlogJet, though; yuck. Will try editing and republishing now.

Edit the second: I am unable to configure any blog to work in BlogJet now. It keeps giving me a socket error when I try to connect. I cannot recommend software that does this.

Upon installing Zoundry Raven, was unable to autodetect any blog settings and unable to enter them manually, rendering it useless. This program is in beta so hopefully it will be fixed in the future.However, Zoundry's Blog Writer, the precursor to Raven, shows similar problems - the autodiscovery is completely broken and manual settings can be entered, but never accepted. I failed to uninstall Raven before trying Blog Writer, which broke them both. I uninstalled both and reinstalled Blog Writer, and it works beautifully now. Yay!

Qumana works, but I can't edit previous posts unless I made them through Qumana. Is Qumana using the Blogger API v1 and denying me access to Blogger API v2 features?

w.bloggar works fine. I'm getting sick of all my HTML being mashed together when I edit a post, though. If data entered via the API is stored the same as posting with "ignore linebreaks," I would like my linebreaks to be kept so I can tell where I want to edit something. The longer the entry gets, the more irritating this is, but I'm not sure if it's because of w.bloggar, Tabulas' API, or the combination.