Distractions

Hey, a product made by my company got an endorsement from a prominent Science Fiction Writer in a scientific paper!

Damn. Where did my Categories go to?

So, it’s not enough to export the MyUserLandData.blog, you also need MyUserLandData.categories and god knows what else (subscriptions and stuff will also get lost. Hmmm.)

Oh well, my export script sort-of works, now just to make sure I export the whole database, and then to find out where to hook it in.

Oh, and get the import script working. The function I was hoping to use doesn’t work as expected – it’s for grabbing fat pages embedded in web pages open in the browser.

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.