ATS Blog

I just downloaded the new version of Adobe Contribute to use it to edit my Blojsom blog.  To connect is pretty easy, just put in the access point for the blog or the xmlrpc connection. Contribute wants to make new templates for each category, so it has a tendency to make a few strange entries in my blog and throw an error message, but it still connects.

This isn't quite so problematic since Blojsom is using Velocity to control the look of the templates.

I was able to insert an image, a link, and to use spell check in relative Contribute-ease.  Adding tags is also just as easy.

 Publishing is problematic if you choose a category - there is an XML-RPC exception. I found a work around.  Contribute makes a connection to each category in an individual blog as a new blog.  So, when posting or publishing, you must select Categories: None in order to be able to post.  If you wish to post to a specific category, you need to select the Category under Blog instead of Categories. This is not intuitive, but certainly possible.  It may be a good idea to look into David Czarnecki's XML-RPC api to create a custom api to avoid this problem.