Pete Lacey’s Weblog

Over on REST-Discuss, Roy Fielding dropped an innocuous message containing a link to the slides he’s delivering (has delivered) today at RailsConf Europe.  I’m pleased to see that much of the material lines up nicely with my own REST Easy workshop.

Tim beat me to the post, but as of around midnight last night we have no known issues with Atompub support in WordPress 2.3. Woot!

My dear departed father use to give me this piece of advice (left over from his Navy days), “never volunteer.” But I did, and I’m happier for it. This is the first time I’ve contributed to an open source project, and you know what, it’s a lot of fun—and rewarding. And working with Sam, Tim, Elias, and Joseph was a distinct honor and pleasure.

That said, Tim gives me too much credit. The bulk of the code is Elias’s. All I did was patch some bugs and bring the code up to compliance with the latest spec. Sam nailed some gnarly ones too, and automated everything—a habit I have to get into. It took a little longer than expected because I had to relearn PHP, which I haven’t used since 2001, and go spelunking through the WordPress codebase.

Currently, we expose posts and uploads (media entries). Once 2.3 is released I hope to add support in 2.4 for WordPress pages and comments among other things. I might also be convinced to back-port this to WP 2.2 if anyone’s interested.