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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.

Movable Type 2.6 coming soon to a blog near you!

In Internet, Technology, Weblogging on 28 January 2003

Brad Choate’s Sanitize plugin is just one of the additions promised for Movable Type 2.6. Enhanced text formatting and comment options are also on the list. Ben and Mena Trott are about to once again make our blogging lives easier.

Another long-awaited feature (that I suggested in the feature request forum ages ago) is the ability […]