A couple releases

I have a few things to share. They’re of limited use to most people, but I’m going to put them out there anyway. The first is an applescript that’s currently designed for Vienna and TextMate but could fairly easily be adapted to any Applescript-able newsreader and blogging app. What it does is let you highlight some text in a post in the newsreader and then it will take it and format it into a blockquote and add a credit line before inserting it into the frontmost document in your editor. I have it set up as a command in TextMate, which I’m including in the package. The command just calls the applescript, so it can be run independently. I’m putting the file on it’s own page so that it can be easily referenced in the future. You can find it at: Blogging quotes from RSS to TextMate

The second is a plugin for Wordpress that is a modification of the Related Posts plugin to allow access through XMLRPC. For TextMate users, this means you can do two things: You can take a highlighted phrase and create a link to a blog post you’ve written previously, and you can easily search your entire blog for previous posts. A further explanation can be found here: Related Posts XMLRPC Plugin for Wordpress

I’m in the process of putting together a completely functional XMLRPC plugin companion to Ultimate Tag Warrior that will allow XMLRPC access to all of the functions and will have my autotag mod included as an XMLRPC hook. It’s going to be very, very cool. At least for people who know how to use it ;-). I’m corresponding with Christine (the author of UTW) right now to figure out how to make a less obtrusive autotag addition to the plugin. One that doesn’t have to be updated every time she releases a new version. Ultimately, I’d like to incorporate the xmlrpc and online versions into one standalone plugin that would hook itself into UTW when loaded.

I figured out that it’s really easy to override the built in xmlrpc calls. Once I finish the UTW plugin I’ll post an explanation of how I figured it out. For now, I’ll put out the easy stuff and hold onto the more complex releases until I’m sure it works.