Monthly Archives: August 2009

Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 7

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 7 – Conclusion This series has provided an introduction to developing Tools for the OPML Editor. However, the topics covered in this series have not even scratched the surface of the capabilities within the OPML Editor. Dave Winer has compiled a list of resources on the OPML Editor HowTo web site, but here are [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 6

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 6 – Creating an application – Windows Updates As mentioned in the previous part of this series, some additional applications and Tool changes are required to support calling the Delicious API for Windows users. The following steps were followed on a ASUS EeePC 1000HD running Windows XP. Step 1 – cURL installation and setup [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 5

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 5 – Creating an application In this part of this series, an OPML Editor Tool will be developed to interact with the Delicious social bookmarking service. You will need to have an active Delicious account with several entries to be able to use this application. Delicious supports an Application Program Interface (API) which allows [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 4

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 4 – Saving data in the tool database The earlier parts of this series demonstrated how to create a Tool (mini-application) for the OPML Editor, how to create a web page display within the Tool, and how to use scripts to create content within web pages. This part of the series will show how [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 3

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 3 – Running a script from a web page Part 2 of this series showed how to write a short script and display the results in a dialog box. This part of the series will show how to display the results in a web page in two different ways The first is through the [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 2

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 2 – Creating web pages and scripts Web pages Another method that can be used to display a “Hello World” message is through the Tool website. Each Tool contains a table containing elements which the OPML Editor can render into a website. These elements can present information (like help pages for the Tool), but [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools – Part 1

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Part 1 – Installing the OPML Editor and creating a “Hello World” Tool To get started, download the OPML Editor from the OPML Editor website and follow the instructions in the “Downloading a fresh install” section. After following the two install steps for your computer, the OPML Editor should be up and running. As the [...]
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Developing OPML Editor Tools

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
Introduction – what is the OPML Editor? The OPML Editor is an application based on the open source version of the Frontier kernel, originally developed by UserLand Software. The Frontier kernel site states that Frontier “provides high-performance web content management, an object database, and a system-level and Internet scripting environment, including source code editing and [...]
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Setting up Firefox 2 context menu for Mac

By Andy | Published: August 12, 2009
I reinstalled Firefox 2 on a MacMini with OS X 10.3, but could not remember how to get the single-button context menu setting restored. Thanks to Google, I found a posting that had the information: On the location (address) box, type about:config (this will bring up a list of all configurable settings) On the filter [...]
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