I've moaned on and on about the lack of decent blog editing software on Linux. Having used Windows Live Writer, I know how good the best is, and the Linux offerings don't even come close. Oh, for a cross-platform blog editor...
Well, it's about time I ponied up and did something. Seeing as I live and work in a flurry of Adobe multimedia technology, I'm going to stick to technology I know - a bit. What I'm going to attempt to do is get Google's sample application, blog.press, working in Adobe AIR. And to add some spice to the top, try and replace the plain text box (that I'm currently typing this into) with something a bit sexier, like FCKEditor or TinyMCE or something.
Note that I say "attempt", "try" and "know a bit" because I'm going to actually be using things I've barely touched before. I'm a Flash developer, but I'm going to be doing all this with Javascript. Mainly because the editor lives in HTML and Google have Javascript libraries for accessing Blogger, but also because I fancy trying doing something different. I've also got a really good (and free!) e-book about AIR from Adobe aimed at HTML/Javascript peeps as opposed to Flash peeps, and it seems to make sense to me.
It might all go terribly wrong, and this might be the last you hear about this experimental project, but this is what I'm going to be trying during my lunchtimes. If it works out, it'll be - hooray - my first open source project. And people with far more experience can point and laugh at my ham-fisted hackings.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Keep me posted as to how this goes..
I use ScribeFire the Firefox plugin on my EEE but it just doesn't feel quite right in comparison to Live Writer!
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