Blogger Buddy 1.1.0 « Build.A.Gadget

We did some tweaking to the Blogger Buddy gadget recently, mostly to re-write the code and try to account for the errors people have gotten trying to login and see their blog to post on. The new version is the same interface, but we cleaned some stuff up and made it more compatible with Windows 7.

The 1.1.0 version of the gadget includes better error handling and logging, so we can track down problems people are having and try to determine the best way to fix them. It's always tricky trying to fix remote problems that we can't replicate in the lab, so this version should be able to not only help with that, but we also fixed the view links for blogs (no more going to an odd, obscure XML page, yay!), and added in a lot of try catch code to handle individual error cases (hopefully this means that more blogs will show up for people). :)

As always, let us know if you run into problems and we'll see what we can do. And before someone suggests it, we did check out tagging for this update, though Blogger's API was being sporadic on it, so we decided to leave it out for now. We'll try to revisit it for future updates once the rest of the gadget is more stable.

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Paul

Your welcome!

So, do you guys have a time frame when I might see the new version with themes in it?

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I love this gadget but I want to know if you guys can make it so that users can have different themes they can use?? Please!!

The Staff

Paul,

Thank you. We will consider adding themes for the next release of this gadget.

Azmi

I notice that there's a bloglist in the gadget. Is it supposed to show my different blog posts, or meant to be empty? The convenience of editing or checking past blog post is not available. Well I'm here just checking if it is supposed to be available or if it's a problem I have. Still, great gadget. :D

Azmi, the blog list is mean to be a list of the blogs instead of the posts. Since the gadget is used for quick posting, there really isn't a way to edit things afterward unless on Blogger itself. Maybe someday we'll be able to add that in though.

Scott

Trying to use Blogger Buddy with Windows 7 64-bit and a GMail log-in and it will not allow me to log-in at all. credentials are correct because it works on blogger.com, but will not work in the gadget. Any ideas or fixes in the works for this?

Scott, we're still looking into the problems with the gadget. It seems that Google is returning information in different formats. It's tough to track down as we haven't been able to replicate the problem here.