Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

So much for blogging with Zoho Writer…

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Nov 20, 20071 min

For most of this year, I've been blogging using Windows Live Writer as my client. Today, I tried fairly hard to post a blog entry with Zoho Writer online; alas and alack, while I could edit a document somewhat, and get Zoho Writer to talk to Movable Type well enough for a draft posting to appear, the posting was empty. Understand that here at InfoWorld we use an older version of Movable Type, which is not one o

Understand that here at InfoWorld we use an older version of Movable Type, which is not one of Zoho’s favorite blogging servers. Still, the two of them should have been able to talk to each other using either the Blogger API or the metaWeblog API.

Zoho Writer shows a lot of promise, but my experience with it today was intensely frustrating. Oliver Rist tried Zoho in his 7-day “adventure” trying to use only Web-based productivity applications a bit over a year ago; it was his overall pick, and he thought it might eventually be a “viable competitor to Office”.

Not yet, it isn’t. Maybe next year.

Hmm. I wonder whether Buzzword, another promising Web Word processor, will ever support blogging?

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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