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Testing EspressoBlog

MovableType, Website September 18th, 2002 |

Just making sure that this is working. I’m trying out EspressoBlog, an OS X app for posting to MT or Blogger powered weblogs.

Seems to work so far — I’ll know for sure as soon as this posts.

Two things I’m noticing that I may want to toss Phil’s way to see if he’s interested in including in the future:

Those are hardly dealbreakers, though. This isn’t bad at all…

Phil Says:
September 18th, 2002 at 12:34 pm
Hi! Great to see another EspressoBlog user. While I’d love to add both of those features—I, too, make use of both TrackBack pings and the extended entry field—I can’t right now. The reason is that none of the weblog APIs support any of those things. We’ll see, however, once MT 2.5 is released! I also need to add the ability to edit older posts, but I can work on that.
Among Other Things Says:
September 18th, 2002 at 12:37 pm
Well, hey!

I’m glad someone likes it! djwudi brings up a good point—Movable Type should add the ability to send TrackBack pings (or maybe I can do it myself without the API? hmmm, something to look into) and probably the ability to post to a field besides the ma…
Among Other Things Says:
September 21st, 2002 at 7:37 pm
As good a place as any

This is as good a place as any to announce that I think TrackBack pinging is now working on EspressoBlog, and that I will be giving it its own website soon, as well as making available the 1.1 release - featuring, as I said, TrackBack. It’ll also inclu…