{"id":28,"date":"2006-06-27T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-06-27T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T15:20:38","slug":"getting-started-with-ecto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2006\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-ecto\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Ecto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended the recent NMC conference in Cleveland, one of my goals was to blog the event better than I blogged Bb World &#39;06.  At Blackboard World, I wrote out my notes carefully for every session I attended.  I used OmniOutliner Pro, which is the tool I use for my day-to-day notes.  It&#39;s a great program for that kind of thing, but it took too long to rewrite my outlined notes into useful blog entries. Once I returned from San Diego, I was catching up with work and several of my Bb World sessions never made it online.<\/p>\n<p>This time it needed to be different.  For NMC, I would blog in real time.  My errors would hopefully be forgiven.  Sue had recommended ecto as a blog editor, so I downloaded the program and used it in trial mode for the length of the conference.  Overall it did well.  I was able to take notes quickly and to post them here before leaving the room after each session.  My compliments to Case Western for an easy-to-use wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>I do have some reservations about ecto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While I would prefer to use the rich text editing environment, none of the formatting converted to HTML when I sent posts up to my blog.   I&#39;m not sure if this is ecto&#39;s fault or something in blojsom&#39;s configuration, but the nice interface is a waste. <\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately the HTML editing mode isn&#39;t very kind.  I know my tags, and ecto does have a list of common tags on the status bar at the bottom, but they need an inspector or panel that&#39;s easier to use.  Because rich text doesn&#39;t hold the formatting and HTML requires the writer to tag the content, I can&#39;t say I could recommend the program to most faculty, since the majority doesn&#39;t know HTML.\n<li>ecto&#39;s clock leaves much to be desired.  If I tell the program to post, it connects and uploads, but the post doesn&#39;t appear for hours.  I have to adjust the program&#39;s clock back several hours to trick it into thinking that it&#39;s time for the entry to appear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otherwise the program works well.  I&#39;m looking forward to trying it with photos and podcasts, and maybe even Amazon links.  We&#39;ll see how it goes. <\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/nmc2006\" rel=\"tag\">nmc2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended the recent NMC conference in Cleveland, one of my goals was to blog the event better than I blogged Bb World &#39;06. At Blackboard World, I wrote out my notes carefully for every session I attended. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2006\/06\/27\/getting-started-with-ecto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}