TiddlyBlogger updated

I’ve recently updated my original TiddlyBlogger code to include JayFresh’s additions mentioned here (cheers for your work here Jon).

The added features are:

• You can publish tags
• You get a response to the XML-RPC Ajax call (i.e. you know if your post was successful
• The ‘publish as blog’ option now only appears when you add the tag ‘blog’ to your tiddler.

Changes planned for the future are:

• Being able to pull down blogs from WordPress (and editing them).
• Support for more complex formatting (hyper links, bullet points etc)

TiddlyBlogger is here - JavaScript blog posting with XML-RPC and TiddlyWiki

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was interested in turning TiddlyWiki into an offline blogging tool. The idea being that you often get a spare few minutes when you’re offline, and you could use that time to do things like write your blog.

So what I’ve done is added an option to each Tiddler ‘publish as blog’. This calls an object that I’ve created (called blog), which builds and XML-RPC message, and then send’s it via Ajax. At the moment I’ve only tested this with WordPress, but it should also work with blogger and a few others.

You can view an example of this at:

http://www.craigcook.co.uk/samples/TiddlyBlogger.html

and the script file can be found at:

http://www.craigcook.co.uk/samples/BlogPlugin.js

You’ll need to modify some variables in BlogPlugin.js for your own blog details.

TiddlyBlogger - publishing blogs created in TiddlyWiki to online blog

Continuing on from my RSS reader TiddlyWiki frame of mind, I thought that it would be cool to be able to something similar with writing blogs.

My idea stems from the fact that TiddlyWiki is perfect for offline working.

So to set the scenario you you’re working offline, but you want to write your blog: you may be on the train to work, you may on a bus, you may be in the office where you cannot connect to the internet etc. There are hundreds of different circumstances.

What I want to create is a plugin that will enable you to write your blog into a tiddler, and then when you’re online do something like ‘click to publish’ and then this will post your blog into your blogging account (e.g. WordPress, blogger etc).

So I’m currently trawling the internet looking for any web services that allow you to publish blogs. This way I can create a direct interface in TiddlyWiki and will have no need to create any middleware (or server side code). I’ve found a few API’s (WordPress for example has one), but I’d like to avoid having to write any server side code.

If anyone has any ideas/resources that they think will help please let me know.

I’ll keep you all updated with my progress.

RSSWiki or TiddlyBlog - pulling RSS feeds into your TiddlyWiki

When I first looked at TiddlyWiki I thought that this would be really cool to use for blogging.

So recently I’ve started to fiddle with creating macros/plugins for TiddlyWiki and I came up with the idea of an RSS reader macro. What it does is pulls in blogs via RSS, and creates a tiddler for each blog, and then tags the tiddler to link it to a specific blog feed (e.g. ‘craigCookBlog’).

The macro I’ve created can either accept two direct parameters (RSSFeedURL, tagName), or if you pass in none it will look to a specific tiddler (RSSFeedList) which contains a comma separated list of RSS feeds and their tagNames.

At the moment it only works if the TiddyWiki is stored locally, I’m working on a solution for when it is stored remotely (i.e. on a server). I’m also working on a better way of adding RSS feeds to the list, but for the moment you get the principle.

You can check it out at:

http://www.craigcook.co.uk/samples/RSSWiki.html

P.s. Please tell me if you have any issues with this URL.