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PostXING: A .Net Open Source Weblog Publishing Tool

26 Jul

I just found out about PostXING. It is a open source weblog
publishing tool written in C#. Looks pretty cool. It supports Metaweblog API.
Seems to work with dasBlog.

I hope this works well behind my office proxy. Will test it out
tomorrow. Others like BlogJet and Performancing does not work behind the proxy,
at least the FTP uplod does not work.

The best part though is that if it does not work, I got the code
to go and fix it. :-) Maybe I should add a spellchecker to
this.

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5 Comments

Posted in Software, dasBlog

 
 
 

  1. Shakti

    July 26, 2006 at 12:37 AM

    Why do u need to use this? It doesn’t have an extra feature, i guess. What are the advantages of using postXing?

     

  2. Chris Frazier

    July 26, 2006 at 3:23 AM

    There is a plugin that uses NetSpell for spellchecking already. http://projectdistributor.net/Releases/Release.aspx?releaseId=62

    You may have issue with using a proxy for the ftp – as I understand it, this is partly due to the nature of ftp requiring two connections to work correctly. Also the library used for ftp uses direct socket connections which may have something to do with it as well.

    Blogging (i.e. using the metablog api) should work just fine behind a proxy.

     

  3. Vasanth

    July 26, 2006 at 5:40 AM

    Shakti,

    I like an offline/desktop client because a lot of times I loose the post I am making because my browser crashed or I accidentally closed the window. It does not provide any extra features when compared to the web interface of dasBlog.

    Chris,

    Thanks for the heads up. There seems to be some problems working behind our authenticated proxy even for blog posting. I will dig into the code when I get some time. I will check out the NetSpell plugin too.

     

  4. Tarun

    July 26, 2006 at 6:09 PM

    Hello Vasant. I liked the interface of your blog. Its good. Can you just tell me how can I register my own blog with ".in" domain like you have http://www.vasanth.in . Is it free or paid domain? .

    And to the post, PostXING looks good but why should one waste time by using such softwares? For bloggers …. http://www.blogger.com or http://www.blogsopt.com is enough. Isn’t it ?

    Do reply ;-)

     

  5. Vasanth

    July 26, 2006 at 6:31 PM

    Thanks for the compliment. The domain name is a paid one. You can get one at net4domains.com.

    Well I prefer desktop applications to web applications. I am kind of old school I guess.