PowerBlogs.Com Development

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XML RPC interface

Powerblogs now supports posting with an XML RPC interface. Specifically, users can use programs which support the MetaWeblog API with the URL http://blogname.powerblogs.com/admin/xmlrpc.pl — this might be especially handy for users who want to post from PDAs.

It also supports the blogger API, but the blogger API is pretty terrible — it doesn't even support titles. At some point, I'll probably implement as much compatibility with the MovableType API as possible, and likely also implement a Powerblogs-specific XML RPC API (I am toying with the notion of writing a java post composition program to go with Powerblogs to make disconnected post composition easier, but this is a really long-term goal, not anything which is going to happen soon).

Reports are active again

Ok, I've finally finished the performance overhall of the readership reports. The reports are now being generated every 4 hours throughout the day, plus a few (minor) improvements.

Next up will probably be a remote posting interface, hopefully blogger-compatible. There have been a bunch of requests for this, and it will be useful to at least a bunch of people, so I'd like to get it done soon. I'll let you know once I'm into it.