zempt success!
when i started this blog hunt, i asked fellow friendly bloggers about what applications they were using, both server and client side. eric told me about zempt, the client side tool he used. zempt was built to work with MoveableType but luckily works with WordPress as well. Unfortunately I ran into a few snags.
First the current stable build for WordPress is 1.2.1 “Mingus”, unfortunately it was packaged without “xmlrpc.php”. You need this file to get zempt working. So after searching around, there isn’t much useful documentation on this, i found some “fixes” that worked for other client tools that broke without its presence, unfortunately it didn’t fix my zempt problems.
I went from not being able to connect at all, to connecting and getting a runtime error and completely crashing my application. yay. so after consulting with yb we decided it would do no good to just grab the xmlrpc.php file or even the current xmlrpc.php in the WordPress beta nightly builds. I would just have to upgrade altogether.
so I’m an idiot. I’m here ranting to will that they need an upgrade.php to make my life easier, oh wait THEY DO! ha ha ha. after upgrading, zempt works and I’m *NOT* getting runtime errors and crashing the application!
WordPress is definitely impressing me as far as usability goes. Its such a seamlessly easy install (as long as you are not completely stupid and can read basic english, and have basic unix/shell navigational knowledge). I am quite impressed at how easy it has been to setup a blog utility. Not so much as a year ago, and this would have been so much more painful.
thx everyone for helping 
-j
hrm stupid zempt with wrong time on edits…
Zempt – Movable Type Posting Editor
Great tool via, my friend Jamie. It has my much needed spell checker, a nice quick preview interface. I need to look more into it to see if I write plug ins for it to ease repetitive tasks. http://www.zempt.com/…