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Fun with chrome caching in Firefox

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

After struggling with this lovely error (”XML Parsing Error: not well-formed” while pointing to a nonexistant location in my code) for a while hacking around on Wereboy, I became a little frustrated. So I created a clean profile and added the extension, where it worked fine. Turns out that profiledir/XUL.mfasl will apparently keep around uninstalled plugin chrome then later confuse itself, resulting in this sort of breakage. You have to delete/move it then relaunch Firefox to force a rebuild.

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XML-RPC Blogging Plugin for Tomboy

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

This plugin lets you post Tomboy notes to a weblog through the magic of XML-RPC. Attached is the source (goes in tomboy-[ver]/Tomboy/Plugins/) and a diff/patch against the cvs tomboy-[ver]/Tomboy/Plugins/Makefile.am.

Notes:

  • needs XmlRpcCS. Mono 1.1.x users, check my guide for installing it.
  • there’s no pref’s dialog, you need gnome-blog, it currently reads your gnome-blog settings from GConf
  • currently only supports the MetaWeblog API (MovableType, etc.)
  • does not support post editing
  • currently just uploads whatever the text value of the note is. If your blog supports setting a default formatting style (like Markdown), just use that in your note and it should show up properly.

Some ideas for enhancement:

  • keep track of postID’s in an extra XML field (like width and height are now). This would allow you to upload a post, then edit/update it within Tomboy.
  • move pref’s to Tomboy’s preferences dialog and GConf settings?
  • let you sync your notes with your weblog. This would update your blog with local Tomboy changes, as well as pull down other posts not made from Tomboy into Tomboy.
  • maybe a different icon?

Enjoy, feel free to enhance/update/improve/etc.

And yes, this post was made with it. ;)

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