Mobile blogging still needs work, also Pythons on a Phone!
Hmm – I think I need to write some code to get any sort of mobile blog – trouble has the xml-rpc interface disabled, which is what most apps use.
Besides, I get free e-mail on my n95, and I’d like to be blogging with photos, preferably on flickr, so most tools won’t do the job – anything that uploads pictures via 3G is going to use up bandwidth rapidly, whereas e-mailing pictures is free (or should be if I read the x-series info correctly)
So the cheapest and simplest way to create a blog entry would be to e-mail it, plus pictures, to a mailbox somewhere, and have code to extract images, upload them to flickr, create a blog post with the text of the mail, and insert flickr links into the post. Shouldn’t really be that hard to do – once the time fairy gives me more time :-/
On the other-cool-stuff front, Nokia have a very impressive Python port for S60 phones – http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60
This has too many cool things to list here – but briefly:
- You can make native-looking apps in python
- You can access many cool apis, like “Camera.take_photo()” and “sms_send()” and “CalendarDb.add_todo()”
- Most standard Python libraries are available
- There is a fairly simple looking UI library
- You can telnet in to the phone over bluetooth, and run the python interpreter interactively from a laptop!
This looks dramatically easier than Palm or J2ME programming. Probably not much use for anything serious, but for simple tools it looks awesome.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
you can email your post to a special email address to flickr and it will post it to your blog automatically. I think you set it up under accounts/blogging. you can even set default post settings, code and image handling. it’s pretty kewl.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Hmm – I’m actually thinking of giving up on Trouble – the way the web is moving, it’s less pain to have a blog on a big hosting service than on a friend’s machine… sorry Thorne!