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Some googling and testing revealed the following undocumented XML-RPC methods, which expose a number of nice functions from the client side.
All are in the LJ.XMLRPC namespace of course:
getfriendspage
sendmessage
setmessageread
getinbox
addcomments
These were gleaned from: code.livejournal.org/trac/livejournal/browser/trunk/cgi-bin/ljprotocol.pl
It seems only paid users can call addcomments.
This codebase is over a year old, it looks like they aren't using that repository. I believe there may be other methods. The iPhone app developer![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) cosysoftware_en some upcoming functionalities in his app that don't seem available from these methods. He claims to have gotten LJ to extend the XML-RPC interface, but won't disclose what these new functions might be.
The LJ support is useless. Is there another way to contact LJ devs? Anyone with XML-RPC client should implore LJ to update their documentation.
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http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/12/in-which-i-test-posterous.html posted by Neil
 I'm testing http://posterous.com out, as a way of posting to Blogger from my phone, using email. So this is a test posting... I'm attaching the "mass market" paperback cover for Fragile Things, which will be released in the US in February. It shows someone who looks like me with jam, or dreams, or ideas, squidging out of a book and all over him. I finished a short story - technically, I suppose, a novelette, as it's 10,000 words - that I've been working on for much of the year. For most of that time, even through to the end of the first draft, a couple of weeks ago, I was convinced it was never going to work, would be a stunted, crippled little thing that was doomed to disappoint me. I knew it was missing something. What that something was occurred to me last week, exhausted after a yoga session in Boston, as my mind blanked, and later I wrote two short paragraphs in my notebook. Those paragraphs percolated and began to breathe, and I put them in and the story shifted, subtly, around them. The second draft took wing, and I found I was clear enough in my mind about what the story was that taking out things that weren't part of the story and putting in things that were was now easy, and the more I did it the better the story got, and now I'm happier with it than I've been with anything I've written for well over a year. It's called "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains..." and it is not exactly a happy story. Right... Dear Neil, Patrick Rothfuss is making the world a better place in a very tangible way with his charity run Worldbuilders 2009. (http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/blog/2009/12/worldbuilders-2009.html) My sphere of influence in this world is rather small, but you could, just by mentioning it in your blog, raise a lot of awareness and thus help a Very Good Cause. It would mean a lot to me, and no doubt a helluva lot more to Pat and the people that receive Heifer's help. Many thanks and much love, a fan of Wonderful People,
Gaetan Verhegge Consider it plugged enthusiastically. I sent Patrick a signed copy of the incredibly beautiful STARDUST Advanced Reader's Copy when he did this last year, and it got to him a little late, so he has that along with many other amazing and beautiful books to give to people who donate. Check it out. Hi Neil, Congrats! You have received three 2009 Goodreads Choice Award nominations: Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? in the Graphic Novel category Blueberry Girl in the Picture Book category Crazy Hair in the Picture Book category Blog, tweet, spread the word. Encourage all your fans on Goodreads to vote! Best, Jessica
Consider it spread.Hmm. Okay. I'll email this in, now. Not sure how I can do the blogger labels, though. Let's see if it works. Posted via email from Neil's posterous |
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
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For those who do the Greetings Card campaign, does anybody know what 'non-religious' means, specifically? I mean, obviously I'm avoiding Madonna-and-Child images and Bible verses. But does it extend to mentioning Christmas? Are Santa and "merry Christmas" counted as 'religious'? At the moment, I'm staying on the safe side - winter scenes, "season's greetings", that kind of thing. Maybe just a blank card with a penguin or a snowdrop or something, if I can find some.
I totally understand why getting religious is a Very Bad Idea in some cases. I just don't do well with vague guidelines. I like specific. |
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I was just reading the Groklaw commentary on Moglen and Florian.
What I find fascinating in this debate is the concept, or fear, that GPL software will somehow disappear.
Let me take an example from history, the MySQL vs Progress case where Moglen wrote the MySQL affidavit. Here is a link to the affidavit reference that Moglen supplied to the court.
A synopsis of this is that, Progress had released at the time a version of the MySQL Database which included their Gemini Storage Engine. They had not though provided the source code to the Gemini engine. This was a violation of the GPL. Progress lost their case and later made their engine available under the GPL. The engine is still available under the GPL. I made a point of putting a copy up on the Internet years ago (and I know that there is a Russian company the uses the code). It is a fairly old version of Progress's current product, though from talking to one of their architects a couple of years ago, the code has not changed considerably.
So here we have a company's database product still being made available under an open source license years later. This is the Lazarus Phenomenon, whereby open source when published, has the potential to exist forever. The open source license allows for anyone to continue to make the Gemini code freely available under the constraints of its open source license.
Having more insight then most into the history of MySQL, I find that there are a number of twist and turns that can be found in all of this.
When MySQL was concerned about the Oracle acquisition of Innodb, it looked into alternative engines. One of the engines we looked at was the Gemini Engine. Why did we look at it? Since Progress had open sourced their engine we had the option to use it. An option that history has shown was never needed, since Oracle has continued to develop Innodb. It was an option though, and we looked at it. We had that right.
As another example, when Galbraith left MySQL, development of the Federated engine collapsed. When it became impossible for him to provide back contributions to the engine because of his lack of employment to MySQL, what happened? He forked Federated to create FederatedX, which is still developed and distributed today. Even though the version of Federated has remained nearly static in the main tree for years, his version continues to be enhanced.
When Monty and David changed the license on the MySQL network drivers from public domain to GPL, the PHP project and Redhat continued to distribute the public domain version for years (I believe Redhat still does).
The entire concept of taking what has been made publicly available, and somehow removing it from the commons is inane. It makes me think about how American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers tried to sue the Girl Scouts for singing songs around the campfire. Once the tune is in your head, it stays in your head.
Once software has been published under an open source license, it continues to be available, whether its current owners wish it to be or not.
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Dec. 4th, 2009 @ 05:53 pm
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I'm new here and new in flickr too. Watch me HERE |
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http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?e_id=56E39A6C-BD03-AAA0-46142B9B3B9EA411&ref=p_itune On the eve of the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen and in the wake of the hacked climate researchers' e-mails, former Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie discusses his ScientificAmerican.com article "7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense," available at http://bit.ly/8bg9Fx |
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Hello all!
I've got some auctions up on eBay for nine DS games and a couple pieces of video game merchandise. ( Click for Mario, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, and more! ) |
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LiveJournal: The First Decade
Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including: -
Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
- A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
- Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
- Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
- Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn
What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.
Tweaks and enhancements- You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
- Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!
Give a little to help a lot!
In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.
Photos of the weekWe're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.
We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!
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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!
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Release #59 has a bunch of bugfixes and improvements - here you go!
- Lost password emails can be sent to the current email address on an account *and* the previously validated email addresses for six months after a new address is set. After six months, only the currently in-use email address can receive password reset emails.
- Changes to payment system backend (not user-visible changes)
- You can now page back on the "People & Communities" tab when using the advanced text search (http://www.livejournal.com/search/)
- Fixed some issues in the Userpic Factory so that when and cropping larger pictures works correctly
- Removed "ban user" from hover menu for communities
- Removed the underline from the usericon in some minimalism styles
- Corrected the markup for Writers Block plain text notifications so that usernames are rendered correctly
- Using the "Next" or "Previous" functions now returns the correct entry even when the entries are dated out of order (LJSV-440)
- Converted communities now retain correct security settings
- Corrected the conversion rate for Yandex Money
- Notes now show correctly when viewing a username in the comments section
- If the user is a maintainer of more than one community, the 'ban everywhere' option will display when banning a user
- On geo-location, since some values were displaying "???" for Russian IPs, the Cyrillic values will be displayed in English (temporary workaround)
- Added date and time of post to Recent Entries view in "Cardboard" style
- Removed the * from Notes in header of profile page
- When a Note is updated or added, it now updates immediately on the page being viewed
- When answering the Writer's Block question using Opera, the cursor now appears in the entry field instead of in the question field
- Disabled the ability to modify/overwrite embed IDs after they have been created (LJSV-785)
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Current Music: A Place to Bury Strangers -- Exploding Head |
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