Blogging with Ecto 3, and a quick tip.

I was a prolific user of Ecto when I first stumbled upon it back during the version 2.4 days. Ecto is now up to version 3 and it is as awesome a blogging tool as ever. It looks like http://ecto.kung-foo.tv no longer works, but that's ok, because the Ecto software and forums are now hosted at IllumineX.

If you are an Ecto 2 licensee, your license for Ecto 2 will get you access to Ecto 3 free of charge.

One snag I came across when I started using Ecto 3 was an error coming back from both the Amazon Helper and the Flickr Helper.

For the Amazon Helper, the error was;

"The request must contain the parameter Signature."

For the Flickr Helper, the error was;

"Failed to get data from Flickr!"

So a quick search rendered the following forum post at IllumineX, which led to the following page explaining how to install the new plugins.

So basically both Amazon and Flickr have updated their API, and therefore the plugins need to be updated.

Here are the quick links to both.

• Amazon Helper



• Flickr Helper

Follow the instructions here and you'll be rolling again within a minute.

Ok let's test the plugins;

Amazon

"Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies" (Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff)

Flickr

That's really nice!!