Jared Rypka-Hauer wrote his first from-scratch application in Commodore Basic at the age of 9. In his teens, he dabbled in everything from dBase to HyperCard and was instrumental in the development of several commercial software products. In 1990, he began his professional IT career, spending the first 8 years primarily in end-user support and Infrastructure. Since 1998, his interests have revolved around ColdFusion and dynamic web applications. Finally making the jump to using OO methods for web development in January of 2005, he's become a presence in the web-development blogging community and has written for outlets such as FusionAuthority and ColdFusion Developer's Journal. Jared is also the primary organizer of the CF.Objective conference.
Since Doug announced that he was working on an XML-RPC connector for the Alagad Team Blog, I've been dying for him to let us know that something workable was ready so we could try it out. Today he let us Alagad bloggers know that it was up and running, so I wanted to give it a try.
At the moment, I'm using Contribute, which seems to be the easiest tool for this particular task and while I haven't yet tried to publish anything, at the moment I'm pretty impressed... it's WAY easier than using the FarCry UI to try to publish blog content. We'll see if my enthusiasm sticks around when I try to publish something that contains code snippets.
For the moment, though, I just want to say "Hey, Doug, lookin good!"
Geoff - I'm fairly open minded about that. The one thing is that we didn't build this as a plugin. We've been considering it anyhow and... we'll see.
I've spent the weekend converting my own blog to a FarCry Blog plugin (http://blog.daemon.com.au/). Would be great to see what you guys have done -- perhaps we could collaborate?
Posted By: Geoff Bowers on Oct 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM