Jeezuz!
I just took a look at the wiki for TheAPIThatWouldHaveBeenFormerlyKnownAsEcho.
Yo, that shiznit's bugged.
Not the wiki itself. That's more orderly than I remember a wiki to be. And it do look like a nice way ta play together.
But daaaaaaamn. Check out the preliminary definition of a post:
- author
- There is exactly one Author of an Entry, and that Author is identified by a non-empty name and an optional URI of a person, organization, or system. Note that if there are other Contributors to the entry they can be acknowledged using the BiblioGraphy extension.
- permalink, the persistent URL of the entry on the Web
- publication date
- one or more content items (all of which are semantically equivalent)
- media type
- language (optional) (not optional - see below, [MaciejCeglowski, RefactorOk])
- content link
- file size
- data
- Optional extension modules (status in parentheses):
- BiblioGraphy: title, subtitle, summary, timestamps, version (planning)
- Related: related resources and how they're related (proposal)
- Categorization: topics and categorization systems (planning)
- Identity: pgp keys, detached signatures (planning)
- Security: encryption (consensus to defer)
- License: licensing terms (proposal)
- GeoLocation: the geographic location the entry was posted from or describes (planning)
- SponsoredLinks: advertisements that people want, and are clearly labeled as such (planning)
- BlogRoll: an external list of feeds the site's author(s) subscribe to (planning)
And then there's the talk a' dumpin' XML-RPC, which is how ALL da current tools work, for SOAP or straight-up HTML posts, fillin' da headers with the data.
Yo. Peeps.
Y'all ain't building a weblog system. You're buildin a fukkin
career. You're buildin' a l'il sum-sumpin you can make a weblog
with, and I remember M$ releasing something they said you can build a weblog
with an' y'all just snorted at it.
Y'all about to to do blogging systems what all them modules and EJBs did to Java, and peeps is
still talking about how to make Java easy. YOU CAN'T WRITE JAVA BY HAND ANYMORE. Ya
NEED a toolset like JBuilder… nice but try making a useful Java thang in Notepad. HA!
You know what a weblog is? It's a goddam web page, that's what. And folks are designing TheAPIThatWouldHaveBeenFormerlyKnownAsEcho like they's pissed the Obfuscated C Contest is outta style.
Do what ya want. But with the tools at hand and some discipline you can do alla this stuff already. Do ya jobsecurity thang, but don't play like you're gonna save the blogworld.
Oh, yeah. It's still interestin, and I'm still gonna follow it. An' I'm still glad I ain't a tech blogger.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/3/2003 07:27:37 PM |
Posted by P6 at July 3, 2003 07:27 PM
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