My first jaunt into emacs code
No updates to be made, because I spent the entire day working on org2blog. I actually kinda liked it. A lot.
I've now rewritten the XML-RPC back-end to use the new, documented, WordPress API. Right at the moment, this is just running-in-place, but I hope to use the new code to simplifying things more.
Actually writing some code
Instead, I spent the time I would normally allocate to writing something for "Do you even lisp?" to enhancing org2blog, the software I'm using to manage this blog.
Well, enhancing might be saying a lot---since I've been doing a little
WordPress hacking in other contexts, I've become aware of WordPress'
new (released with 3.4, so only six months old at this time) "native"
XML-RPC API, and I chose to start moving org2blog to use that, and
move it away from the hodge-podge of Blogger and MoveableType and
metaWeblog APIs that are currently in use.
I hope that over time this will simplify the API, and perhaps result in even better possibilities for interaction---it would, of course, also be great if we could start to abstract away the specifics of a blog's back-end requirements into a well-defined API so we could easily use whatever is the most featureful back-end for a given blog.
Others might see if differently; we'll know when I start sending in merge requests.
I also want to automate the process of storing local copies of articles in a hierarchy that mirrors their permalinks and a couple of other things. That I'm also effectively learning elisp at the same time will make all of that very interesting.