Blogging from Ubuntu with Windows Live Writer - take 2
Published by Glen on Wednesday 26-Sep-2007
I really want to use WLW for my blogging client. Unfortunately, the open source VM solution (QEMU) is not cut out for the task. It either ran really slow or it crashed (or both). All of which left me less than happy. However, the solution was sound and only the implementation was flaky.
Fortunately, I have a copy of VMWare Workstation that I need for my “day job”. So, I created a new VM image on that machine and then moved it to Ubuntu where I run the image using the freeware VMPlayer.
Everything and everyone is happy now !
BTW: if you paste a screen shot of your blog *into* your blog is it like the infinite regress of two facing mirrors ?
October 6th, 2007 at 07:01
Mr. Salmon, as a newbie to this whole blogging thing, can you send me your thoughts concerning the easist apps you feel would allow me build a simple and interesting-looking blog? Mucho gracias…
October 10th, 2007 at 20:04
When it is all said and done, you will have two parts - the blog and the blogging client.
A lot of people get their blog from one of the free sites: wordpress.com and blogger.com are two big ones. I don’t know how much customization either free service provides but if you look at a few blogs on these two sites, you will get some ideal of what is possible “out of the box”.
As for the client, some people just use the web browser interface that comes with the blog itself. Others use any number of tools. I like Windows Live Writer (WLW) because most of my blog entries include a picture. If I used Flickr to store my photos, then they’d already be URL addressable so the web interface would be find. But, since I store my little photos as part of my blog, I prefer a blogging client that lets me insert the image locally and the client handles all the messy loading to the blog server and fixing up the HTML inside the post. WLW is as easy to use as a simple word processor and it does not make bloated output.