Blog Posts

As you maybe saw already in the last post, we finally have a moblogging system in place again. Silvan did a great job on that. It's quite similar like in our old b2 days, as we fetch the incoming mail from a POP3-mailbox, parse them and send them to the blog. But this time, it's based on our MetaWeblog API XML-RPC implementation I did over the weekend. Instead of writing the entries directly into the DB, we push them over XML-RPC to the blog.

This has several advantages. The fetching script (called bxm2m) doesn't have to run on the same machine as the blog. And the mail receiving server can of course also be somewhere else. Nothing spectacular, if you only want to feed one blog, but we can now use the same instance of the script for many many blogs. And they don't have to be BxCMS blogs, but just have to support the Moveable Type extended MetaWeblog API. And due to this "distributed" nature of the system, we could also just throw in a second bxm2m instance on a different server, if the first server can't cope anymore with the load. If that ever happens ;)

The code is of course Open Source and available from our Subversion repository. We can also provide you an account, if you just want to use our own bxm2m instance.