Asymptomatic

Mark Jaquith is on stage at blogOrlando presenting WordPress, answering questions. It's nice to have a dev doing a presentation on the east coast. Very personable guy.

I encourage you other bloggers to get out and meet some of the folks that are involved in you software's development. Everyone's really approachable, and sometimes it's nice to get out from behind the impersonal communication of the mailing list to get a feel for what people are really thinking.

It's been since October with these Habari people, and I'm totally through. It's not worth it any more.

Day after ceaseless day, the agony of having decisions by committee... It's finally gotten the best of me. I thought I could handle it, but it's just not working out.

The latest straw to break this camel's back is the rush to release the Developer Review. I'm not sure what the all-fired hurry is to release software that is obviously not ready for prime time. Nevermind that we could have released at the end of January had we not wasted all of our time bickering over logos, default themes, HTML vs XHTML, and other irrelevant claptrap. 100+ messages about whether Habari should use HTML or XHTML. I mean, is that really necessary?...

Greetings, authors of blog-posting desktop clients! This post is for you!

Actually, this post is about you. I've spent the past four hours trying to implement Atom Publishing Protocol. Actually, it's been days longer than that as I've been implementing and re-implementing accoring to the various documentation I've found online, but I've spent the past four hours just trying to get Ecto to work with my APP server code, and now I'm flat-out angry. It's not just Ecto, and I'm not sure that I should only blame the Atom architects either, so let me explain my issues.

I'm trying to implement a lot of the Atom Publishing Protocol as a server. I want to be able to list blog entries, update them, and create new ones. I have written my Atom implementation to the most recent spec, and when I access the entrypoints using raw Telnet and HTTP headers over port 80, I get the appropriate responses back from my server according to the spec.

This seems great, but this is not the end of the battle -- The so-called "Atom clients" I've been able to find just don't seem to support the spec. more

This weekend, instead of attending the Philly meetup that I organize, I'm heading up to New York City to visit with Jason and his meetup.

In case you wondered, the Philly meetup is still on, even though I won't be there, I'm sure some people will show. Check the RSVP list. Don't forget that the Philly Weblogger (non-WordPress) folks show up right afterward, so be sure to have a beer and wait around.

As far as the New York meetup is concerned, I'm currently under the impression that I'll be answering questions posed by the group, specifically things that people wrote about on my request for requests. If nobody asks any questions, then I'll just go down the list of topics from that post, babbling incoherently about many WordPress topics....

I was thinking a bit about the meetups that have been going on in Philadelphia and in New York City. We don't really have a format for our discussions. Not that I was thinking of changing that, but I was curious:

If you could have someone who knows something about WordPress talk about one thing with you, what would it be?

I imagine that there are a lot of people who are just starting WordPress or who are considering whether they should that might like to hear what it's all about. Or if you've just gotten started, you might have questions about why things generally work a certain way....