Year: 2001

OK, here’s something semi-useful (for “Radio UserLand” users, anyway):

I’ve got one copy of Radio at home, one at work. I’m using the weblog in MyUserLand (not to be confused with tools -> weblog; that’s the older version, the prototype). Now, I can upload it live to my personal site on corky.net (http://corky.net/dotan/log/), and to my manila site (http://dotan.editthispage.com/). All the data is stored locally as well, in an easily editable form (inside Radio’s database).

But what if I want to have the same copy of data at home and at work? I need to do some “end of day” operation when I go home (or go to bed), and transfer the blog data from one machine to the other.

Well, back when Radio was Frontier 5, it had an option of exporting a table as a “Fat Page” (a .fttb file). And MyUserLand (the news/weblog app in Radio takes care to keep all it’s data in a seperate database, MyUserLandData.root. So, export MyUserLandData.root at work, compress it, mail it to myself at home, extract, import and replace my existing database… (whew!) and Hey Presto! local weblog replicated!

Now, there should be some less labour-intensive way of doing this, for example some build-in script that hooks-up to the shutdown event in Radio – or to the “Publish” event. Maybe one day I’ll be lazy enough to write it.

PS: Exporting MyUserLandData.root is probably overdoing it. What I’m going to try and do now is export only MyUserLandData.weblogs.default, which includes all the posts and prefs (template, settings – everything on this page). Much smaller, and it doesn’t include all the heavy, temporary data – the cached new stories and whatever.

Anyway, this is cool beans.

I’ve shifted my old blogger entries around into the simple file heirarchy used by radio to archive posts. Here’s the archive.

I haven’t put up proper index pages, anyway. I should also see how radio adds permalinks (I guess it uses anchors based on the message’s Id – in which case what do I do with the blogger posts – give them negative Ids?). I’ll probably need to scrape the pages to get the posts (or re-export everything in some radio-readable format?)

OK, just checked – the permalinks are per day (per archived page), not per post.