I did quite a bit of work on the Afae blogging plugin last night. I think it is feature complete now with most of the polish done. The major thing I added last night was file upload. It works fantastically.
The file upload has more uses than just blogging. For example, often times my IM file transfer fails when I want to send someone a screen shot, but now I can just drag, drop, command+v.
Here is a movie on how the file upload works and a quick demo:
Some other things that were fixed / added.
As ususal you can download all the Afae plugin’s on the Afae Page.
To get blogging to work in it’s minimal form, you need the afae_editor_blogger_nightly.zip plugin. That will give you the ability to post to your metaWeblog enabled blog and upload files.
If you’d like color coding for your posts you can download the afae_editor_nightly.zip. The editor plugin does color coding for blog posts and many other file types. Or, you can use your favorite Eclipse HTML editor by assigning it to the file type “.blog”.
If you’d like the snippet ability - the part where I type img and it becomes an image HTML tag - you can download afae_snippets_nightly.zip (If you use cfeclipse, as I am sure you know, you already have this ablity).
Lastly, this has been tested quite a bit on Mac OS X connecting to a WordPress blog only. While I think it should work with other configurations, I can’t say for sure. If you find it works on your setup, please let me know.
There are several different licenses for the plugins, but they are all either under the Apache, LGPL, MIT, or Eclipse. Check out the Wiki for more information.
Update: I tested this on Windows XP and the file upload portion does not work on Windows at present (because the file separator of “\” is breaking a regular expression).
Update: The file uploader works on Windows XP.
Update: I tested this on Linux and entry posting and file uploading works fine (Ubuntu).
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