phil ringnalda

Working on getting Movable Type to play along with the new Radio feature, archiving and import-export in RSS.

It is still possible to use a “Post to MT Blog” bookmarklet in Mozilla or other Gecko-based browsers with Mark’s fancy new XHTML 1.1 + application/xhtml+xml pages, but it takes a little modification of your bookmarklet. Chances are you’ve never noticed it, but every time you use your bookmarklet to post in Mozilla, it protests […]

Comment spammers get a tiny bit more cunning.

I’ve been having a hard time making up my mind about whether I think baked or fried is better for a weblog (a baked page is a static file, like Movable Type/Blogger/Radio serve up, a fried page is build from the database (or text files, or whathaveyou) when it is requested, like b2 or blosxom). […]

If someone whose Perl skillz are a bit less lame than mine would like to do a Movable Type plugin that returns an RSS 0.9x/2.0 <skipHours> tag for a given set of local hours, that would be wonderful. I’m thinking along the lines of <MTSkipHours hours=”23-6″> which would then return: <skipHours> <hour>7</hour> <hour>8</hour> <hour>9</hour> <hour>10</hour> […]

How to hack Brad Choate’s Sanitize plugin into Comments.pm so that unwanted code is stripped from comments before they are saved, rather than just when the page is rendered.

Dumping my bookmarks for the three Blogger API methods that aren’t in the official documentation.

If you downloaded the MT 2.51 upgrade before, um, far too late at night/early in the morning today (before 1 am PST October 31st, that is), you’ll need to reupgrade your {MT directory}/lib/MT.pm to this version: the original had a little bitty bug that left it taking forever and a day to rebuild archive files […]

If you are using my convert line breaks hack to stop MT from adding <p> and </p> around block-level elements like tables and lists, you will want to update your hack to the newly posted version: Ben glanced at it and pointed out that it would be far faster with a slightly more sensible regex. […]

With version 2.51, Movable Type only overwrites a file when the content has changed. What does that mean to you? If someone adds a comment or a TrackBack, the index files, including your RSS feed(s), are rebuilt, so that the comment count will be updated. But if you aren’t putting the comment count in your […]