Blogging with Fargo

This is perhaps slightly off track from previous entries, but then again perhaps not. I've recently been writing about using Byword as a convenient text editor for creating blog content so this is a continuation of that theme. The software that I'm using for the creation of this entry is actually web based and specifically is located at fargo.io. It uses a dropbox account for local content storage and then takes files created (in markdown if you like) as input into a javascript server running on your own machine. html files are then served up to the web via a host machine that's presently being run by Dave Winer who has created this software. I'm not sure if I've gotten those details precisely right but in the end it all seems to work smoothly. And it should also be noted that this online editing environment is also an outliner which is not surprising since Winer is also the creator of early outlining software for the Apple and the IBM PC. All very interesting, and just in the last couple of days Fargo has obtained the capability to download the complete contents of a WordPress blog via opml so we now have something of a two way transfer of data although I'm not quite sure how this is going to work out in practice. I'm not giving up my copy of MarsEdit just yet!

Byword Update

Update:  After writing this review I was not able to use the new paid for feature of direct posting to my blog. It turned out that there was (frustratingly) a bad character inserted into the text which threw an error message.  All is fixed, but that was frustrating. Some time ago I mentioned that I’d upgraded to the latest version of Byword (version 2.0 to be precise) and that I was tempted by the in-app purchase for the ability to post directly to various blog services. I did finally bite the bullet a few days ago and paid the extra fee to obtain the full benefits of Byword 2.0. I suspect I was influenced by the recent blog entry by Frank Eves where he goes Back with Byword. I’ve enjoyed Frank’s blog over the last few months and have generally agreed with his software writing tools opinions. And so when I noticed that he’d revisited the subject in this entry and placed Byword as number 1 on his list of markdown apps, I remembered that I was actually originally impressed with the editor although I’d strayed away from it over time. His bulleted list of Byword advantages specifcally caused me to serious reconsider using the app and here I am posting this new entry to a blog directly from this Markdown editor. Now if can only remember the short cut for posting this entry from Byword to the cloud!

Byword Blues

I am having some issues with Byword at the moment and specifically the problem is that I can’t seem to use the posting to Wordpress option with my Byword entry which I’ve just written. This is somewhat ironic, in that I’ve been enthusiastic about the program until this very moment!

Bywording Again

Some time ago I mentioned that I’d upgraded to the latest version of Byword (version 2.0 to be precise) and that I was tempted by the in-app purchase for the ability to post directly to various blog services.

I did finally bite the bullet a few days ago and paid the extra fee to obtain the full benefits of Byword 2.0. I suspect I was influenced by the recent blog entry by Frank Eves where he goes Back with Byword. I’ve enjoyed Frank’s blog over the last few months and generally agreed with his software writing tools opinions. And so when I noticed that he’d revisited the subject in this entry and placed Byword as number 1 on his list of markdown apps, I remembered that I was actually originally impressed with the editor although I’d strayed away from it over time. His bulleted list of Byword advantages specifcally caused me to serious reconsider using the app and here I am posting this new entry to a blog directly from this Markdown editor.

Now if can only remember the short cut for posting this entry from Byword to the cloud!