There are still too many barriers to entry in the use of these wonderful new technologies. Very reminiscent of early Internet days.
So, I've successfully installed mt 2.5, and it works wonderfully. (After multiple conversations with our dept sysadmin about perl plug-ins...) Now I want to add RSS aggregation to my site, but the process is opaque at best. Nothing appears to be build into mt, and the external tools aren't immediately obvious in terms of use.
Too much grading to do today to be able to explore interesting-looking aggregation tools like AmphetaDesk. Maybe later this week, once projects are graded and lectures are done. Maybe.
Thought we'd purchased XML Spy for our labs, but apparently the purchasing process broke down last year. So I've got about two weeks to evaluate, select, purchase, and install a new tool. Needs to run in our syslab (meaning Win2K or Linux), and an OS X version for me (so that I don't have to run Virtual PC) would be really nice. I'm feeling a little cranky about this, but there's not much I can do except suck it up and find a tool, fast. In my copious free time, natch.
So far, have found oXygen and Topologi. Not much in the way of reviews out there. Will need to surf a bit and see if I can can find people who've used (or at least tested) these.
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