bedeviled mojo slop

As Mark briefly mentioned yesterday, we did release blojsom 1.4. There's certainly not a shortage of features to think about and implement, but here's what made it into the 1.4 release:

• Updated documentation on the website: I now live by the principle that what is plainly obvious to the developer will not be as obvious to the end user. Most notably, there was some confusion as to how to create, edit, and change things like categories and entries.
• Flavor-based default category mapping: Typically, blogs aggregate blog entries on your "index" page or if you request the default or "/" category. In blojsom, we don't depart from this notion, but instead allow you to configure the directories that will be aggregated per flavor. So, for example, I can aggregate "/blojsom" and "/java" for my RSS flavor, while leaving the flood gates open for all the other flavors. All of this described in more detail in the customization documentation.
• blojsom plugin API: Man, this was a LOT of fun to put together and really offers you some flexibility in customizing your blog, making things easier when editing entries ... The possibilities are endless. If you want to explore the plugin documentation, well, there it is. blojsom also supports flavor-based plugin chains so that you can choose to have different plugins executed for different flavors. Again, the idea is flexibility. And we released 4 plugins with blojsom for you to look at and experiment with. They are, hyperlink URL, macro expansion, simple search, and "more ...".
• XML-RPC support: Mark did a great job putting this together so that you can now use an XML-RPC tool to manage your blog. blojsom supports a subset of the Blogger API, but the important bits are there like some basic authentication, creating and editing of posts. Check it out, it works.

Already we've begun thinking about what will make it into blojsom 1.5 (codename: Hangar One). Looks like Mark will be addressing MetaWeblog support via XML-RPC while I tackle comments.

Enjoy!