Check the
results.
This makes me very glad, as did the hours on the IRC, trying code, patching
code, peering at logfiles, laughing at each other… making it work.
This is how the Net gets better.
Like I said last time,
Windows Live Writer is da bomb, other
people who are in the blogging-client biz better watch out.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that software as diverse as the .NET-based
WLW, Alex Milowski’s
Atomic Firefox plug in, and
the Snell/IBM heavy-java
Apache Abdera client all
managed clean trouble-free interop with
mod_atom. Really,
I have a happy glow in my belly.
Here’s a screenshot of NetNewsWire reading the feed from mod_atom showing a
post, with picture even, planted by WLW. There are other posts there from
Atomic, wildly different clients, same server, nestling side by side, no
custom code required. Get
it?
Plus, the Ape got a major workout. If the work it’s done up through
today is all the use it ever gets, it’ll still have been worth it.
Plus, Google hired Joe Gregorio, the world’s leading APP
implementor/evangelist. My hope is that he’ll get them to ship OSS code for
their funky proprietary (albeit RFC2617-compliant) authent protocol; then
maybe they’ll be able to back up the claim that GData is really APP.