2007.08.05

Wendy Kaminer has the news on the latest taboo: "At first, the press seemed intent on ignoring the obvious: that all five Supreme Court justices who recently voted to uphold a ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure in Gonzales v. Carhart are Catholic... If it is hard to imagine five Buddhists or Jews sitting on the Supreme Court, it's even harder to imagine that conservative Christian commentators and politicians wouldn't raise the subject of religion if a majority of non-Christian justices voted to strike down an abortion ban." Well, when you have power, the word hypocrisy disappears. (Yet another link from B&W) 2007-08-05T19:12:35ZUntitled entry permalink

The basics of metaWeblog implemented 2007-08-05T22:30:24ZTitled entry permalink

This little implementation of the OPML blogging system written in PHP now supports the XML-RPC based MetaWeblog API (another creation of Dave Winer), meaning I can now post to my blog from a variety of devices and platforms.

It uses the Incutio XML-RPC Library for PHP, an old library put together by Simon Willison.

I wish there were a library of test cases for MetaWeblog API based on the real-world behaviour of weblog posting clients. It's difficult to fully implement MetaWeblog unless you know exactly what the client is going to give you.

Perhaps what we should do is have a few sample blog posts which people would try to enter using their MetaWeblog (or Blogger or Movable Type or Atom Publishing Protocol - such being the nature of standards that you have four of them) clients, then we might be able to have some test cases.

As for the OPML blogging engine in PHP? I will release it quite soon - I just want to clean up the code and make it a bit nicer to use.

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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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