{"id":247,"date":"2005-01-01T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/WebDev\/Blogging\/blapp.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"blapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2005\/01\/01\/blapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Blapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired as <a href=\"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Apple\/OSX\/isearch.html\">I was<\/a> by Michael McCraken&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-mccracken.net\/blog\/blosxom.pl\/computers\/mac\/programming\/\">I-Search plugin for Cocoa apps<\/a>, I decided it was time to try another of Michael&#8217;s projects, <a href=\"http:\/\/blapp.sourceforge.net\">Blapp<\/a>.  Blapp is a Cocoa weblog editor for Blosxom (and Blosxom-like) blogs.  I&#8217;ve always edited my posts with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/edit\/wikieditish.htm\">wikieditish<\/a>, a browser-based Blosxom editing solution.  This has the advantage of allowing me to post from anywhere I have web access.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I write most of my posts on my Mac, and I can always use wikieditish when I&#8217;m not at my Mac.  So far, I&#8217;m pretty impressed.  Blapp allows me to preview my post as I type, even using my story template and css files from the site so I can see what the article will really look like.  It also supports the use of an external app as a filter, which allows me to see my preview with full <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/\">Markdown<\/a> rendering.<\/p>\n<p>Setup was a bit of a bear &#8211; I had to edit my story template a bit (Blapp doesn&#8217;t seem to understand <code>interpolate_fancy<\/code>-style variables, and I had to merge my css files (normally, one <code>@import<\/code>&#8216;s the other.  Figuring out the rsync setup was a bit of pain as well, but liberal command-line testing of the rsync command with the <code>-n<\/code> (make no changes) switch helped.<\/p>\n<p>More good news, Blapp is open-source, so I can take a shot at fixing some of my complaints myself (when I have time, and when I finish reading <i>Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X<\/i>).  If you blog with Blosxom and use OS X, I recommend giving it a try.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this is my first Blapp-edited post.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired as I was by Michael McCraken&#8217;s I-Search plugin for Cocoa apps, I decided it was time to try another of Michael&#8217;s projects, Blapp. Blapp is a Cocoa weblog editor for Blosxom (and Blosxom-like) blogs. I&#8217;ve always edited my posts with wikieditish, a browser-based Blosxom editing solution. This has the advantage of allowing me to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}