Dev-Picayune

I finally came up with a name for my blogging system other than “Stupid Blogging System”.  “Pumpkinvine” is the name I came up with while talking to my wife about it.  We thought it would be neat to have some local reference in the name.  The Pumpkinvine Creek is a fairly famous winding creek that runs near our house and we can walk to it from the nature trails in our neighborhood.  The Pumpkinvine is particularly well known for its meandering path as it flows for many miles yet ends up almost where it started.  I thought that was particularly appropriate since Brandon described my blog development as “wandering” and indeed it has been.

Most recently, I have implemented most of the MetaWeblogAPI. This has enabled me to try out a greater range of blogging clients than just ones that supported the Blogger API which is extremely limited without adding to it.  Once I implemented the XMLRPC API stuff, I realized that I needed at least a little bit of refactoring to be moderately at peace with my code.  So I ended up moving functions around and renaming all the peaces to fit with the new name for my project.  If I ever do end up writing a blogging client tool, the obvious name choice would be PumpkinSeed.

The cool thing is that I am able to blog from Firefox using the Perfomancing plug-in. That gives me a consistent tool that’s cross platform. At the rate their going, I can’t imagine being able to come up with a better tool. However, it would be nice to have something portable I can keep on a thumb drive, so I still may need to look into other client alternatives.

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