NewMediaObject - Geezzz

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on August 17, 2006 6:08:34 PM

Windows Live Writer supports NewMediaObject (like a lot of other blog clients, except mine) and has a nice rich environment for touching up your image before uploads (like a lot of other blog clients, except mine)

The big selling point for WLW ? It's FREE as in beer.

Now, that's asking for getting used, but unfortunately my main squeeze blog engine (actually its an Application Framework or something like that) is using Xaraya http://www.xaraya.com and as yet we're still not upgraded to supporting NewMediaObject.

What's new media object ? no, it's NewMediaObject or newMediaObject or mt.newMediaObject or something like that (but without the spaces.)

NewMediaObject is an MT (MoveableType) xmlrpc function/method call that allows you to upload files through your xmlrpc and not requiring FTP. It's great, but it misses a few issues like how to manage the sprawll of those files on your server once you get to the 100th image or the 10th all on your kid, i.e. kid1, kid2, kid...

Now, if only I could pack the wife and kids away for a couple of days (and all those annoying realities of life) I could probably refresh that VMWare image I had around here somewhere to try and get NewMediaObject supported in Xaraya. Unfortunately, there's only 24 hours in a day and we can just pray and hope (or was that hope and pray ?)

Go Nomoa!!!

Of course, I could just get my backside up and fix the FTP server on nomoa.com. Nomoa.com got moved to a new machine (actually a 5 year old one) and we haven't got that FTP server installed/working as yet. Maybe tomorrow ...

The delays are largely related to time. Getting an FTP server up and running is more practical than hacking newmediaobject for Xaraya.

If our new server was on OpenBSD, it would have taken all of 5 seconds (give or take 10 minutes) to get the thing up and running, but as it is the server has moved from RedHat 6.x to Fedora Core 1 to Debian GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.16.19. I'm always getting confused when the file system layouts change between Linux revisions, and they are obviously more different from the BSDs, but today is not the day to resolve these differences.

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