Archive for the ‘MobilePostIt’ Category

MobilePostIt 1.1 beta screenshot

Here is a screen capture of my MobilePostIt version 1.1 on a real WM5 device. I just loaded it onto my PPC6700 and will be doing some self testing.

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Collection editor and string array

Getting edit control buttons to work on MobilePostIt is not hard, but I wanted to implement some “fancy” designer support such that once the button control is implemented, I can just drag-drop the button in place and configure them via the properties pane.

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OpenCloseTagButton design time support

The next little feature I want to add to MobilePostIt is editing shortcuts, similar to the ones in WordPress. I classify these buttons into two categories, one that pops up a dialog box, e.g. “img” and “link”, and the other that surrounds selected text with open and close tags. I started working on [...]

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Version control at home

More than a year ago I asked myself which version control software I should use at home. I then more or less decided to go with Subversion. Unfortunately all was moot as I never put it into action.
That is until today. I just installed Subversion and TortoiseSVN (minus the Apache part) on [...]

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MobilePostIt v1 released

It’s been 6 months since I last worked on my little pet project MobilePostIt. After my comments on Pocket PC Thoughts, I am now putting it up as a >>free download<<.

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Chinese MobilePostIt

This is just a Chinese test post using my MobilePostIt program:
大家好吗?
我现正坐在新加坡世界贸易中心的麦当劳里用它提供的免费无线网络上网.
中文输入是通过 CE-Star 2.8.

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.NET setting management

One of the things I had wanted to do for my MobilePostIt project was to use .NET 2.0’s setting management to store blog settings. Right now I use file IOs to access a binary file. Using .NET’s setting management is not that useful of an enhancement, but it would result in less code [...]

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WordPress 2.0.1 fixes XML-RPC bugs

I just noticed that WordPress 2.0.1 has been released and that it fixed some of the XML-RPC bugs I have mentioned, bugs such as stripping of CSS in <div> and stripping of <!–– more ––>.
WP 2.0.1 bug fix list is here.
The 3 XML-RPC fixes are mentioned here.

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MobilePostIt v1 beta

I did say that I wouldn’t work on MobilePostIt project for a while, but then I thought I should just finish what I started. It took me another two nights and one day, but v1 is feature complete and ready for blitz testing.
New in this (self) release:

Retrieve and edit recent posts
Publish or save as [...]

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MobilePostIt pre-alpha

I have released (to myself) a pre-alpha version of MobilePostIt, a .NET 2.0 Windows Mobile 5 application that allows one (ok, just me) to publish blogs straight from his/her (or just my) PDA.
MobilePostIt uses XML-RPC to communicate with blog systems. Currently it supports metaWeblog XML-RPC used by WordPress. Posting with categories is supported, [...]

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