{"id":793,"date":"2006-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=793"},"modified":"2006-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-kindness-of-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/the-kindness-of-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"float:right;margin:2px;text-align:center;font-size:10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/jj-thumb.jpg\" \/><br \/>Image uploaded with AppleScript<\/div>\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been testing alternative ways to post to the blog with the metaWeBlog API via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=840&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'appleScript metaweblog'\">AppleScript<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=838&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'Flock'\">Flock<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=839&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'Performancing test'\">Performancing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=844&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'Testing Ecto'\">Ecto<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=850&#038;w=john_johnston\" title=\"Permanent link to entry 'Blogging From TextMate 2'\">TextMate<\/a>.<br \/> It took me a while to get TextMate working and AppleScript worked for everything but posting images.<br \/>I got a ton of help <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.pivotlog.net\/viewtopic.php?t=6674&#038;start=60\">on the pivot forum<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.pivotlog.net\/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&#038;u=1006\">hansfn<\/a>, who was very patient with me, and spent a good while reading docs and googling, but I could not get AppleScript to upload images.<br \/>Last night I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherblog.com\/Articles\/2006\/04\/27\/applescript-base64-and-xmlrpc-newmediaobject-20\/\">posted a comment<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherblog.com\/\">Tom Smith&#8217;s Blog<\/a> this morning a script arrived in my inbox  that worked perfectly.<br \/>It is always a great pleasure when this happens, people who you do not know giving up time to help out a stranger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ttags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/AppleScript\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">AppleScript<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/metaWeBlog\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">metaWeBlog<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/images\/2006-08-26_blogged_from_tm.png\" alt=\"Blogged from tm\" height=\"33\" width=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image uploaded with AppleScript Recently I&#8217;ve been testing alternative ways to post to the blog with the metaWeBlog API via AppleScript, Flock,Performancing, Ecto and TextMate. 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