BlosEdit 2.0 Released
September 17, 2006.     Douglas Nerad

As announced to the MailingList from Peter Richard, shamelessly copied and pasted here:

BlosEdit 2.0 now features a modicum of AJAX goodness (mainly in Navigate webpage) and a revamped interface. The old blosedit 1.x series had only two webpage to do everything in, now we have four by splitting the main navigation screen into three (Navigate, Upload and Logout/Static).

With javascript enabled in your browser, you can select a directory simply by a mouse click on its name. The file list will be updated automatically.

Double-click a file in the file list and it will open for editing. A single click will select it if you want to delete it. If javascript is disabled then submit buttons appear to give you these functions (just like Blosedit 1.x)

When editing, you can change the save directory before saving. This is particularly useful when you include complex temples in your work. For instance I keep a templates for embedding QuickTime movie objects saved in draft mode so that blosxom ignores it. All I need to do its open the template, fill in the movie file location add whatever descriptions or comments I need and then save it in the true target directory with "use original date" unchecked (so that time stamp is current). This is also useful as a "move" file action. Open a previous entry in one directory, change the directory, save it, and delete the original. A "copy" excludes the last step.

Visit http://www.makehell.com/ to get a zipped archive. (local archive here)

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Henry Baker wrote
2007/3/11 19:54:45

Maybe somebody can make this thing work but I can't.

It keeps telling me the username/password are invalid. I'm using the same pssw.txt file and the same system path to it I use in Blosedit v.1.8, which I had up and running in less than five minutes.

Unlike v.1.8, which was only slightly confusing, the instruction comments in v.2.0 are superficial, ambiguous garbage, leaving the installer in a guessing game on what to put where and exactly how to put it there.

Nor is there a single word on how to chmod the files or the slightest hint that the path to Perl might need changing -- just in case someone not steeped in Perl might need to know.

But that's typical of most of these elitist geeks, who are fluent in computer code but can't write the English language clearly enough to compose an intelligent Postit note.

I shudder every time I have to deal with one of these poorly documented pieces of crap, since I know from past experience there are hours of trial-and-error nonsense ahead that still may not make it work.

Either version of Blosedit's only real value anyway is in its simple ability to control a file's timestamp, and v.1.8 does that quite competently.

I suggest anyone who isn't totally familiar with every nook and cranny of Perl avoid v.2.0 like the plague and stick to v.1.8., whose installation comments make slightly more sense.

And if any of you Perl geniuses out there think this criticism's excessively harsh, just suck it up -- and learn to communicate with people along with computers.

DonAlfred wrote
2007/9/5 10:31:35

I am trying to put Japanese characters in, just for a test, thank you. 日本語では