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Two words: Zempt Sucks!
Why? Let me tell you the story:
I was aware of different windows clients for posting to weblogs without logging into their web based interface and writing through their standard input method. I always tried some of them. But I did it for test reason. I am too much curious.
This is where Zempt comes in. I heard people talking about the Zempt. It is a windows based client for posting blog entries to Movable Type based blogs using XML-RPC. Thats fine. So I thought it would be fine to give it a try. and I did, but I wish I didn’t!
I was too sleepy and tired. so prepared a test entry and posted it as a “draft”. It means it should not appear in my blog, it should only be saved for future use. and after posting draft I went to sleep.
Today morning, I met a close friend and we started talking about many things until he told me that he read my blog but he couldn’t post comment to my last entry, titled “Teaching, Finding a new person inside yourself“. WTF? I didn’t post that. It was not supposed to be posted. That was only a test.
Damn you Zempt. I didn’t want to post this entry. It supposed to be a test entry to see how things work using Zempt. And it didn’t even rebuild the pages correctly. Only the main page was rebuilt, without creating an individual entry for the post.
And here is why I do not trust those softwares. I always prefer the MT interface, even if its creepy. And sorry for the previous post (I am not going to remove it though!)
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Actually, as far as I understand the matter, it is not the fault of Zempt, but of MT itself that it will let you publish a draft version of an article through the xml-rpc interface, but that it automatically pubishes whatever it receives that way. The xml-rpc interface is the limiting factor here. I agree that it is confusing that Zempt appears to offer this functionality in its user interface.
Frank:
I’ve already tested other xml-rpc based clients and they could post drafts without rebulding the pages. It seems more to be a zempt specific problem.
Hmm, I stand corrected
Maybe I should shop around a bit for another xml-rpc client then.
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Was it because you found that link on my blog perhaps? Because I tried it (too) and deleted it (too) one of lasts week…
You may be interested in the posting interface from Sauce Reader. It keeps drafts locally, which may help
http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/
cheers, Nathan
BOK: You are smart! I found it right there. but you know, I don’t know dutch. So I don’t know what was your post about!!! Maybe you’ve had the same problem as I did.
zempt zuigt. Ik schrapte ook het!