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SharpReader cometh

In Internet, Technology on 9 April 2003

I was recently made aware of a new aggregator that came on the scene, SharpReader. Following some other reviews by some people, I’m going to try to gather my own thoughts about it.

Reasons I like SharpReader better than Syndirella

(I figured I’d start with the nice things.)

Categories and sortable feed lists. This is something that bothered […]

O’Reilly tutorial for Movable Type RSS Files

In Internet, Technology on 7 April 2003

I just found this link for a friend, and I wanted to make a note of it for future use. It’s a great template for Movable Type RSS 1.0.

Blosxom-y Goodness

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 9 March 2003

I really love the Blosxom community. I asked if anyone would make a plugin to do Dean Allen’s Textile plain text markup and, not only had someone already been working on it, but he finished it tonight! So this is my first post with it and using the meta plugin that Rael wrote for the […]

Adventures in Blosxom Time Stamps

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 7 March 2003

I decided that the entries_index plugin that Rael wrote wasn't really working for me. It's a good start, but it doesn't deal well with moving files, and it doesn't change the mtime, so when I had to delete the index file, I would lose my saved times. So, I decided to go for a simpler approach and used a simple […]

The times, they are a changin’

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 6 March 2003

I bit the bullet and moved to Blosxom to power my weblog. I have conquered Apache mod_rewrite so that requests to my main domain name are forwarded to /blog and to disguise Blosxom’s cgi script so that it looks prettier.

I have set up Blagg to run every hour in cron and push any new posts […]

Blosxom Thoughts

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 5 March 2003

Well, I’ve been playing with Blosxom for the past day or so and it’s pretty cool. The new version is much advanced from the earlier version I tried, due to the addition of plugins. This enables people to change the way Blosxom works. Well, it enables other people to do so, since I haven’t learned Perl […]

JiveFilter

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 16 February 2003

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Movable Type 2.6 Released!

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 14 February 2003

Ben and Mena have done it again! Download their latest achievement at the Movable Type web site. New features include:

Improved text formatting options Ability to add a new category from the new/edit entry screen Support for alternate SQL databases

Brad Choate has also done it again with the first plugin for text formatting. Check out Brad’s MT Textile.

Where’s the news?

In Internet, Technology on 7 February 2003

So, I’ve been using Syndirella a lot lately to read my favorite sites. It’s my favorite news aggregator so far. I can put most of the sites that I enjoy reading in it. Dmitry Jemerov is incredibly responsive and has been keeping up a steady stream of releases with bug fixes and extra features. Syndirella sits quietly in my system […]

Ben & Jerry’s web site suckage

In Internet, Technology on 2 February 2003

So I’m trying to send Ben & Jerry a comment about how good this ice cream is. I can’t figure out where an e-mail contact type thingy is. Finally, with help, I click through several links to find it. But, it doesn’t work in Opera. It gave a generic message such as “This operation could […]