The fastest Symbian developer on the planet and my WordPress Client

By on March 14, 2008 in News

So I’ve been working with my symbian developer toward getting the WordPress client operational, yes?

We’ve had a bit of a set back in the context of data quality and interacting with the WordPress XMLRPC system. The developer and I are in dialogue. He’s doing his best, I think.

Meantime, I was chatting with Jay Fenton.

Jay is one half of the uber, uber, uber programming geniuses who power Howler Technologies (Makes of ROK Talk). (The other half, Dan Lane, is no less a genius. I’m still impressed that he’s actually got an RFID chip in his arm that will open his house door.)

The other day he enquired about the development and how it was going.

“Shouldn’t be that difficult to use XMLRPC to connect with a Symbian client,” he commented, “In fact, let me just…”

I didn’t hear from him over IM for an hour or so.

60 minutes went by.

Then I got an IM, “Done it.”

He sent me through some files to put on to my E90.

Seconds later I was blogging from it. Here’s the post I wrote.

Here’s an E90 screenshot:

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And some more…

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I was agog.

“WOW,” I told him by IM. Lots of ‘You’re fooking wicked!’ etc.

His response?

Thank you dear chap. It’s just the way i flip ‘em (the bits, that is)

A seriously gifted chap, Jay.

I can now blog from my Nokia handset!

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  • http://blog.spinvox.com James Whatley

    I LOVE the guys at Howler Tech. Amazing brains and bloody nice chaps to boot.

    Good work.

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  • http://www.phoneboy.com PhoneBoy

    Righteous! So when do us alpha geeks get to play with it? :)

    PhoneBoy’s last blog post..Location Based Services Generally Too Creepy For Me

  • http://demp.se/y Adam Dempsey

    Looking forward to seeing it!

    Adam Dempsey’s last blog post..MooPlug 0.4.6 Released

  • http://www.howlertech.com/ Jay Fenton

    Coming soon guys, will have it in your grubby little mitts at the weekend! (just needs packaging up and signing)

  • http://normob.blogspot.com HeavyLight

    I love it when individuals are *that* bloody smart!
    Very well done, Jay.
    And kudos to Ewan for stumping up the money to get the app written.

    And if you happen to find a free moment over the weekend (after ending poverty, healing the sick and saving the world etc, natch), could you figure out how to get my E65 to recognise a default access point group so it doesn’t feel the need to continually ask when there’s only one available?
    TIA
    :-)

    HeavyLight’s last blog post..Apple, RM Battle Shapes Up

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  • http://acurrie.wordpress.com AC

    Hoping this will work with WordPress.com as well. I’m currently testing the Vox mobile client for S60, which is pretty slick…

    AC’s last blog post..The Quest for PIM 2.0: An Unfortunate Exchange

  • http://www.howlertech.com/ Jay Fenton

    It’ll work just fine with wordpress.com, and in fact any blog engine that supports the metaWeblog and MovableType APIs :)

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  • http://www.howlertech.com/ Jay Fenton

    HeavyLight: I don’t know why Access Point Groups were removed from recent phones, very strange move by the powers that be. Is it specific apps that you’re having the problem with?

    Programatically, any native app. (not sure about J2Me) can choose an AP for itself without asking the user beforehand (with a fair amount of intelligence built-in to the decision, provided by the Symbian OS)… the default way of doing things, unfortunately, is to just pop up the dialog box.

  • http://michaelmallon.net michael mallon

    Absolutely can’t wait for this!

    My e90 should be here sometime next week, and I’d love to be able to use this.

    cheers!

  • http://www.howlertech.com/ Jay Fenton

    Got a blog? Got a Symbian 3rd edition phone? As promised – http://scribe.na.nu/ (mobile friendly)

  • http://skyre.wordpress.com Skyre

    Thanks for the link!

    I hope this works out well enough for me, my blog, and my E61i.

    Skyre’s last blog post..Less Hardware, More Software

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  • http://blogs.karroum.de/andreas Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

    Hi,

    I tried it out and it works mostly fine :) The user interface can be improved quite a lot, for example I don’t see in which mode I am when editing the text (word completion, uppercase, lowercase, …). Also the blog entry is posted fine, but wordpress doesn’t show it in the main blog, but I can open it from the admin page and comment on it fine. See here:
    http://blogs.karroum.de/andreas/2008/03/31/bloggen-vom-handy-mit-scribe/

  • http://blogs.karroum.de/andreas Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

    It turned out that the post itself was fine, but it’s timestamp was 4 hours in the future. Any idea how I can correct that?

  • http://www.kvazifoldon.hu Tschöppy

    It could be an option to spread this app? I'd love to give it a try (I have an E61i and looking for a symbian solution for blogging).

  • http://www.kvazifoldon.hu Tschöppy

    It could be an option to spread this app? I'd love to give it a try (I have an E61i and looking for a symbian solution for blogging).

  • http://www.kvazifoldon.hu Tschöppy

    It could be an option to spread this app? I'd love to give it a try (I have an E61i and looking for a symbian solution for blogging).

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