Mozilla has a had a problem with textareas and javascript since the dawn of time (or at least since the bug I track was opened, in June 2001): you can’t find out what text is selected in a textarea, so you can’t do handy-but-not-needed buttons that will do things like wrap <em>…</em> around selected text. […]
How to hack Movable Type to rebuild individual entry archives when a TrackBack ping is received.
The comment spammers have at least partly won. If they can change your behavior and your attitudes, they’ve won, or at least you’ve lost. If too much email spam makes you stop using an email account, or the threat of comment spam keeps you from allowing comments on your blog, then even though it’s a […]
Tweaking your HaloScan comment links to be accessible without Javascript, and to survive server and network outages without throwing Javascript errors by the ton.
Les was, understandably, perplexed about a comment claiming to be from Dave Winer (since in his circles, SOAP, XML-RPC, and anything Dave’s ever done are unutterably evil, and by saying that XML-RPC really worked pretty well for him Les was standing up in the Communist Party meeting and shouting “Capitalism has produced some pretty nice […]
Finally got sick of waiting for a fix for the way Blog*Spot currently works with archives turned off (Blogger then publishes <$BlogItemArchiveFilename$> as “index.html”, but during the B*S upgrade/reorganization a while back they stopped redirecting index.html to the actual file in /homes/thesubdomain.html, so if you use one of the templates Blogger provides and turn archives […]
How many links does it take to overcome stunningly bad content in Google’s eyes?
studio id on migrating from Movable Type to Drupal: Prepare index templates in MT to dump blog records as complete MySQL INSERT statements for Drupal’s node table. Damn that’s slick! And a certain other PHP/MySQL-based blogging system that needs to import entries and comments from MT might want to take note. [via Scott]
Looks like Blogger’s planning on a seriously busy future: Ev’s last post before switching over to the new engine was item number 90018643, but his first post on the new system is item number 103913490788068556. Eighteen digits ought to provide for some growing room.
The best blogroll/use of RSS I’ve seen, plus a “recommended reading” wish.