The Reluctant Hacker

A few posts (and many weeks) ago, I alluded to my hope of coming up with a decent way to integrate free tagging (folksonomy), Drupal, and xmlrpc. I looked into trying to extend the existing blogapi module to fit my needs, but discovered that it isn't simple to over-ride core functions in Drupal. Essentially, one must copy the entire module from core to the local modules directory and hack on it. Less than ideal, and not too many people are going to want to mess with it.

I've made a few improvements to my Drupal blogging client, first spoken about here. It now has the ability to publish and unpublish posts, delete posts, and create and edit free tags (folksonomy). The free tagging feature requires a module that I've packaged up for parsing tags in the post body - just waiting on permission from the author of the sample code I modified before posting that. Hopefully it'll be coming soon!

So, we are finally getting closer to the long-awaited post (ha!) about posting to drupal from vim. I've been having a lot of fun making this plug-in suit my needs, and making it truly easy to post. Python hasn't been too hard to learn - vim scripting is truly a weird, weird language.

I'm posting this from vim with a plugin taken from yyhh.org. If you can read this, it's working ;-)
Update: My modifications are coming along - the following image was uploaded from Vim...

more testing