Another test entry

Not progressed much over the past week or so. Finally got a problem I had with Google authentication sorted - apparently I had to register my sandbox URL with Google, something I could find absolutely no information on for absolutely ages - and then I went and found a reference to this page, elsewhere:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains

... where I could register everything, allowing unfettered API access. (How two different installations of Firefox were managing to post using the sandboxed app though, no idea.) Nice of Google to make it so easy to find... by searching on an unrelated website.

No attempt has been made this week to do much more than get this access sorted. And this API access will be moot (m00t!) when it goes from online to AIR, but the first phase was always to get this working in a browser. Something I was desperate to do was get it all going on a WebKit based browser (I'm using Chrome right this second, the Google whore that I am) because AIR uses the same technology.

Next up is to try a different rich text editor (to try and sort out the XHTML output), and then start hitting the harder stuff - the management of the blog, and a more joined up authentication system. And make it look less like a mishmash of disparate bits of code written in snatched opportunities, and more like something I can be vaguely proudish (kinda) of.�I've laid my hands on a couple of highly recommended O'Reilly books to help me along the way - Javascript: The Definitive Guide and CSS: The Definitive Guide.

I'm such an exciting fella.

Coming up soon - my report about the Maker Faire up in Newcastle... but not now. Now I'm going home!