Windows Live Writer and BlogCFC
I added XML-RPC support back to BlogCFC a few versions ago, and promptly forgot about it, mainly because it was a royal pain in the you know what to test and work with it. But I know that some people prefer using XML-RPC clients to write their blog entries so I was happy to add it. Dan Vega has written an excellent article which walks you through setting up Windows Live Writer (an XML-RPC client) and connecting it to BlogCFC. (I'm almost tempted to start working on AIR client, but if reading requests from XML-RPC was bad, I can't imagine what generating them would be like.)
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# Posted By Todd
| 6/29/07 1:25 PM
Thanks for the plug. I think an AIR client would be awesome, let me know If you are going to do it and I will lend help where I can.
Ray - just heads up for your readers, the latest version of windows live writer doesn't play well with the xmlrpc code. Haven't dug too deeply but there is a registry change that will let it work with BlogCFC.Open regedit
Click on Edit - Find
enter Windows Live Writer
expand Weblogs
should be IDs - expand those out
find your blog and goto manifestOptions
delete the characterSet key
Restart Windows Live Writer
I had no idea XML-RPC was an 'unloved' feature :) I've been using Rob Rohan's cool little blogging plugin for Eclipse (http://robrohan.com/projects/afae/) with BlogCFC for a few weeks and it works great, except that you can't create new categories, which isn't a big deal to me. It lists entries, lets you edit or create new ones, edit metadata etc. all from within Eclipse. Now, if only someone would write a plugin that makes coffee...
# Posted By Ken Dunnington
| 6/29/07 3:53 PM
Just added a new article about doing the same with Google Docs & BlogCFC http://www.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/29/Pu...
I don't think I ever login to the admin bits of my blogs.. xml/rpc all the way, baby!
Ray - an AIR BlogCFC manager would be sweet. You really wouldn't even have to bother with xmlrpc because it would be for BlogCFC only and you could control the communications. Offline support for creating slideshows, adding/editing pages, etc. Basically an admin tool.
For what it is worth - the xml-rpc tools are already built into Word 2007 and are very easy to set up, give you all the power of Word (spell check, grammar, etc), and work with blogCFC perfectly.
# Posted By Steve Walker
| 6/30/07 12:25 PM
I'm glad folks are liking the xml-rpc then. I hated working with it just because it was so hard to debug. Now I feel it was worth the pain. ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 6/30/07 9:10 PM
Love the XML-RPC support, and use it with Live Writer. Works a treat for English, but not for Japanese - the text is corrupted. Live Writer does Japanese fine to Blogger and SharePoint blogs, though.I do Japanese updates through the admin screens.
# Posted By Rob Cawte
| 10/15/07 11:36 AM