Journeyer Inside: HackWeek IV: Fun with BlogPost (a blog publisher)

As part of Novell's HackWeek IV, I decided to learn and develop a GUI application that allows me to post blog entries quickly, without much effort (without using a browser).

Why I wrote this?

I wanted to make myself capable of developing desktop applications (as a Kernel developer I have spent very little time/no time on GUI development). Learning new stuff is always a lot of Fun!
I have always found using browsers for writing blogs is time consuming and takes little more effort for me.
None of the existing applications convinced me.

What it is , what it is not?

BlogPost is a simple, easy to use blog that is aiming to make blogging experience better. It
currently support blogger.com only.
It's a alpha software and tested to limited extent only so it will have rough edges (use it with care :-)).
I wrote this application for Fun and Learning (actually I learnt GTK/PyGTK and Python when I developed it). So don't expect it to be bug-free or quite solid.
It's a GPLv2 Software.
It's not a feature-rich a.k.a bloated application that is intended to replace web blogging.
It's aimed at developers/users not for professional bloggers who might need more features.

List of Features

support posts to blogger.com
Offline blogging (save drafts locally and send later)
Basic formatting
Select blog names to post
Labels/Tags support

Screenshot

Want to try BlogPost?

Prerequisites:

python-gdata (gdata api's) package
python-base and python-devel if not installed already (which usually are present in the default installation of openSUSE).

Once you have the prerequisites installed, grab the BlogPost rpm from here:
(Currenly x86_64 and i386 rpms available)

BlogPost x86-64 RPM
BlogPost i386 RPM

Install the rpm the usual way:
$rpm -ivh

The tar ball can be found here:
BlogPost tar ball

To install from source tar ball