Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual

I've always appreciated a technical book that contains a personal account of how the author uses a particular tool in daily life. In that spirit, I'm going to outline the steps I took recently to create a site, in Radio, for a good friend of mine. I'm just getting started on this so please stay tuned for a more official announcement of the final result. If you are interested, take a look at what I've got so far..

Shawn Reifsteck, a good friend of mine, wanted a web site to help his campaign to become San Francisco District 7 Supervisor. I'll explain how I used Radio to quickly create his site, taking it from concept to launch in less than two weeks.

Shawn's site is a category in Radio that is upstreamed to it's own server via ftp. This is how I create and render many of my sites these days and it's one of the smartest features of Radio that I recommend trying.

More on this case study later.

Steve Kirks, Radio Product Manager, passes along some of the interesting things he's learned while tooling around under the hood of Radio, prepping for the pending upgrade, slated for September 1.

Did you know that the preference system is just a rendered outline? Seriously! One outline handles the core text and Radio inserts checkboxes, textboxes and editors based on macros in the outline. It's part of Radio's localization infrastructure, allowing UserLand to write versions of Radio in many different languages by changing a few outlines.