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New feature: Spam-free MailTo for Radio weblogs.   Another homecoming. Chris Gulker taught me about content management in 1992 when he was the systems manager at the SF Examiner. Upstreaming is based on the workflow system he built using Frontier. He set up a system of folders, editorial people would drop their stories into a folder, and they would pass on to copy editors, then production people. This was before the Web, I believe they were flowing stuff through Quark. I wonder how Chris got his reports then. One of the most satisfying things about Radio 8 is the old friends it's brought back into the loop. Scott Loftesness found a good place for a mailto link. Simon Fell: Radio Extensibility. "Although I've using Manila and Frontier before, this is the first time I've a taken a real look at the scripting facilities of Radio/Frontier. As it took a while to find the right set of incantations, I thought I'd document them here for future Radio scripting newbies." This is wonderful. A dividend. Simon has written a going-crazy style tutorial. Far out. Mike Krus did a bookmarklet that allows you to post to a Radio weblog without going to the desktop website. Glenn Fleishman is blogging once again.  Another priority for this weekend is getting the bridge working for non-news-item-oriented Manila sites. I'm looking for some guinea pigs who are up early to try out the new version. (So far so good. Adam Curry and Dody Gunawinata report that it works. It also works here.) Dan Gillmor is blogging Jerry Michalski's retreat in NY. I wonder if any Radio users are there? David Davies is leading us in mobile blogging.  It's been just over one week since Radio 8 shipped. So much has happened. It's like being the pins at the end of a bowling alley. Everything changes. Whee! And with the InfoWorld keynote looming (I get nervous about big speeches) I haven't been able to get to a sense of normalcy until this morning. I got an email from my Jon Udell last night saying he was checking out Radio, and he got to the two big issues. Configuring extensions for upstreamed files, and the performance of upstreaming. We had some connectivity issues early in the week, but as the number of users has gone up, we've also had scaling issues. Last night I did a code review of the server-side of upstreaming, and found a vestigial feature that was still turned on. Turning it off made a big difference. This morning the performance monitor on the server looks fantastic. But it's Saturday morning. This weekend I'm going to review all the code running on the community server and look for things that are turned on that shouldn't be. We also have a new 1.8 gigahertz machine coming on 2/1 (Dell-willing) -- the current server is only 800 megahertz. So then we'll have two machines in the cloud for Radio 8 users. Room for more growth. Steven Vore clears up some confusion over upstreaming and working offline. The big thing to do when working off line is to turn off upstreaming. Then when you get back on line, turn it on. Then all your changes will percolate up to the public server. Two years ago today Hedy Lamarr died. She was a bombshell and an inventor. My grandfather's cousin. Never met her. We shared some genes. Three years ago today XML-RPC started to gain traction. In one day Python and Perl came online. |
 
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