Applescript XML-RPC thoughts
I've been thinking about blogscript, and how it's so amazingly simple and useful. And of course, then I start thinking about other things I'd love a blogger client to do. I use Live Journal just a little bit. Mostly to keep up with my friends. One thing that is quite strong about LJ is that they have clients for many different operating systems. Some of them have some amazing features. For instance, there's one that will query winamp to find out what song you have playing at the moment.
Now, my knowledge of applescript is still fairly immature, but I believe you could do much of the same thing in a client for blogger. Imagine having a small app where you could choose a template for how you want your post to appear. This would be different from the standard Blogger template. This would more control things in a normal post that Blogger doesn't handle. Maybe you want to include what music you are playing. In my case I've started giving posts titles. Wouldn't it be handy if you could define things that were in the actual post a bit more at the client side?
Apple is coming out with something called Applescript Studio that sounds quite interesting. It will enable you to make applescript apps that have the look and feel of OS X apps. I think once that comes out I may start looking into doing a nice little application like that. Of course that means I need to learn about XML-RPC a bit more. I wonder if that would mean I also have to learn more about XML?
