JohnBs personal blog

02, one of the UKs largest mobile operators has back tracked on a recent decision it took with regards to MMS messages.

Back in July it changed the format of how MMS message were sent. Previously, you were able to send a MMS to an email address whereupon the recipient received a text file containing the message text and a JPG of the attached image. Using CFPOP it was pretty easy to monitor a mail box and process files/images for inclusion as blog entries.

The change 02 implemented no longer delivered the text file/image to the recipient instead a nicely HTML formated email containing a thumbnail and a link to the image which had been sent, meaning the recipient then had to follow the link to retrieve the image - not impossible to retrieve by code but a real pain!

Now one of the guys hosting on my server had this exact problem and gave up on the idea of mobile blogging, but it turns out he wasn’t along and 02 have (or will be) reverting to the old format until a solution can be found. You can read more about it on the BBC website.

Do people really take notice of times blog entries are made? I mean, my server is in the USA so it’s -5hrs to me here in the UK - I want to keep Ray’s code as close to the released version as possible and without butchering the code (i think) to put the timezone offset in - I think this is to come in a future version perhaps? So, for the while - blog entries are now going to be made at Eastern Time so if you see any early entries just remember to add 5 hrs

My plan to revert to Ray’s vanilla BlogCFC has paid off, he’s just released version 3.9 here which now supports RSS 2.0, Enclosures and a new category editor! Great job Ray, keep it up!