If it’s possible to access your comments by just incrementing a number, and possible to leave a comment by just sending an HTTP POST request (yes, Movable Type users, that’s you, among others), you should know that you are vulnerable to being flooded with comments. All it takes is a moron spammer like “Mike Johnson” […]
Blogger users: if you don’t just publish to Blog*Spot, it’s time once again to change your FTP password on your server. Former Blogger users: it’s time once again to think back, and try to remember whether you’ve already changed every FTP password you ever gave to Blogger.
Jonathon reminds me of something I noticed, agitated about for a while, and then dropped: Movable Type’s handling of author names could use some rethinking. The default MT template for RSS 0.91 skates around the problem by having an empty webMaster element, but the RSS 1.0 template includes <dc:creator><$MTEntryAuthor encode_xml=”1″$></dc:creator> for each item. Since MTEntryAuthor […]
Not only does my “Why won’t they listen?” post have a nice lesson in the power of cryptic links, in the referrer numbers (Mark gives good flow, but a link from him that explains what’s on the other end isn’t going to produce anywhere near 340 visits, in my experience), but the comments gave me […]
Espresso Blog 1.4.1 released. I will not buy a Mac. I do not need another computer. NetNewsWire Pro Features : Weblog editing, AppleScript support, Notepad, Filters, Find command, Alternate headlines view, Train-friendly. I will not buy a Mac. I do not need another computer.
Richard adds syndication via TrackBack to MovableBLOG, I vow to stop using auto-generated excerpts.
Inspired by Kristine’s totally twisted idea of a bookmarklet-accessible category TrackBack URL for the index page, CategoryTrackbackData is a first shot at a plugin to add TrackBack RDF to your category archive pages. Download the plugin, unzip, upload to your plugins directory, and add <$MTCategoryTrackbackData$> or <$MTCategoryTrackbackData comment_wrap=”0″$> to your category archive template (outside the […]
linkbackparser.py: Thanks to Phil for being cool enough to crash my parser on its first day of deployment. Oddly enough, I’ve told quite a few developers that my best skill is finding a quick way to break things.
I was already ashamed of my referrals list every time I noticed Mark Pilgrim’s “further reading” list, but now that he has added excerpts to the list, and an RSS feed of referrers, I’m so desperately far behind that I’m really going to have to revisit my 20-minute knockoff script sometime soon. It’s not just […]
By an odd coincidence, in the last week I got my “code” (well, a few words or a couple of deletions) into Movable Type (a bit of HTML in bm_entry.tmpl), Blogger (style=”height:100%” in the form around the posting textarea, to defeat Mozilla 1.1+ bug 161583), and Radio (getting rid of a couple of extra decodes […]