The latest beta of Spring adds RSS support—support for RSS headlines and drag-and-drop from NetNewsWire. Very cool.
This release includes several small changes, including a new command in the Services menu for making it easier to subscribe to RSS channels. See the change notes for more details.
This page describes how to configure NetNewsWire and Radio UserLand so you can use NetNewsWire to edit your Radio weblog. (There will be similar pages for other weblog systems too, of course.)
This release includes category editing support for Radio, Movable Type, and Manila (news items) sites. For more details read the change notes.
O’Reilly, Chris Stone—more about cron.
Rael Dornfest: “While Blosxom has been out (and used in droves) for some time now, I thought it high time for a 1.0.”
J.D. Lasica on RSS news readers: “Instead of the hunt and peck of Web surfing, you can download or buy a small program that turns your computer into a voracious media hub, letting you snag headlines and news updates as if you were commanding the anchor desk at CNN.”
Mark Pilgrim writes for xml.com: “On average, at any given time, about 10% of all RSS feeds are not well-formed XML... There is also a technical solution to this problem: don’t use an XML parser.”
Tim Bray on the future of RSS and RSS readers. Update: I’ve posted some feedback on inessential.com.
Michael Alderete proposes a way to make using news aggregators easier on OS X.
Steven Frank (of Panic fame) on the hidden costs of free applications.
O’Reilly on building and installing a modern version of PHP on OS X.
Computerworld has gone for RSS in a big way. Check out their big list of feeds. Very cool.
By Evan Jones, an open source Cocoa class for tables and outlines with variable row heights.
This release adds better support for Blosxom and Blosxom-compatible weblogs, including support for sub-folders and a script that can be run when posting a new or edited file. See the change notes for more details.
This release contains a mix of bug fixes. See the change notes.
This release fixes a crashing bug introduced in the previous beta.
This release includes under-the-hood fixes for the news reader. The goals are stability, less memory use, and faster performance.
This release focuses on the news reader. Changes include displaying the time for the next refresh, remembering column sizes, and fixing an OPML subscriptions importing bug. (See the change notes for more info.)
Linux Journal on Apple’s X11.
OS X developers Blackhole Media have added a news page and an RSS feed. Cool.
WebCore is the framework developers can use to add Safari’s HTML renderer to their applications. There’s a pretty good chance NetNewsWire will use this. Step one for me will be to get it working with a simple test app.
Mac OS X Hints has a collection of tips for using Apple’s new X11 implementation.
Dave Winer started a new mailing list on implementing and evolving the MetaWeblog API. Excellent. I subscribed, of course.
Super-scripter and francophone Emmanuel Décarie on localizing PHP-based sites.
You can now edit Blosxom and Blosxom-compatible sites with the Weblog Editor. Another change makes downloading recent posts from Blogger sites (in the Weblog Editor) more reliable.
This release fixes a crashing bug with Blogger sites and adds the ability to create custom tags for the weblog editor.
This release fixes several crashes when editing Movable Type sites.