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While trying to track down an issue with Squarespace 5's implementation of the MetaWeblog API I needed to create an MetaWeblog client to help track down the issue. I couldn't find a simple one with no dependencies so I created one: MetaWeblogSharp

This is a very simple library! It is lightweight and has no dependencies on any other library. It even implements its own XMLRPC stack.

You can get the source from the CodePlex project: http://metaweblogsharp.codeplex.com/

Or you can download the binary via NuGet: https://nuget.org/packages/MetaWeblogSharp

Here's a simple example of the API in action:

// Create a client

var client = new MetaWeblogSharp.Client(blog_metweblog_url, blogid, username, password);

var posts = client.GetRecentPosts(10);

var post_1 = client.GetPost(postid);

var bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("test1.png");

var mo = client.NewMediaObject("foo.png", "image/png", bytes);

var categories1 = new List<string> { "A", "B", "C" };

Please ignore, this is a test post to diagnose an issue with uploading images to my blog.

Click on the image below, it should reveal a larger version:

In Internet Explorer the larger image will show up in the browser (the correct behavior)

In Chrome, the larger image will be downloaded as a file (the incorrect behavior)

(See my original announcement of the database here)

The database now includes revised entries and additional entries bringing the total to just over 230 typefaces.

The database is located here: http://sdrv.ms/WlavyF 

Improvements include

• More Foundry and Release Year data
• Inclusion of typeface metadata from the recently-published The Anatomy of Type

Thoughts on Next steps

Storing the data as a simple list in Excel is showing the limitations of a simple data structure. The database doesn't clearly account for different releases of fonts. I'm considering moving it to another format – perhaps JSON to handle richer analysis.

I created http://www.reddit.com/r/Visio/ to have a curated set of Visio links. Traffic isn't very heavy at all, and you might find it useful to check every now and then.

Also, for those of you who use an RSS feedreader (like Feeddler on your iPad or NextGen reader on Windows 8) can subscribe to the RSS feed directly and have the links show up in your reader. The link is the RSS feed is http://www.reddit.com/r/visio/.rss

Learn how to make a Visio shape respond to its Shape Data. In this screencast I walk through Shape Data, Using the Shape Sheet, and Text fields to create a shape whose size will reflect it's Shape Data.

https://vimeo.com/56822447