Vagablog Released as Open Source

I won the Treo 650 in the raffle at Palm DevCon a few weeks ago. I’ve also been bitching to folks at Palm about how they need to do a better job seeding their developer community. Not serving, seeding. There definitely is a difference. So of course I needed a way to show how a good toy in the hands of the right person could potentially make a difference. There were a bunch of people blogging the event with software that cost $25 per copy. Lightbulb over the head, halo of light, cue the organ music. That seemed like the logical place to start! Especially given that I had blogging software of my own to start out with. For a while (since 2003) I’ve been selling a simple Palm blogging app through online stores for a few dollars a copy. It wasn’t making me any money anyway, and I think a good blogging app for the 650 would really kick some ass. Something people could hack on and extend and come up with novel usages for. I figured I would toss my hat into the ring and release a free version of Vagablog along with the source code. There’s another tool out there called Plogit, maybe we can merge in some of that stuff. I’m assuming I don’t even have to really mention the really obvious stuff, like getting Vagablog to download pasts posts and store them in a local DB or getting it to support image uploads. I’m more interested in the not obvious stuff like audio and video blogging, scheduled uploading, calls to a service like the AJAX spell checker or other server side checker, or extending forms to allow mixing in microformats when posting.