Thanks to Tobias pointing out that a weblog in your blo.gs favorites with non-ascii characters was breaking the script (since HTML character entities don’t mean jack to an XML parser), now blo.gs outputs your favorites.xml file encoded as ISO-8859-1 rather than using character entities, and if you plan on adding any blogs with non-ascii characters […]
Every time the subject of RSS comes up, someone will ask me “Why not just read their blog in your browser?” (generally in different terms, depending on how crabby they are at the time). Here’s one answer: while I think of my blogroll as being my personal blog reading list, nothing more, most people think […]
You’ve probably already seen this over at Mark‘s blog, but if not, you need to make a tiny change in your RSS auto-discovery <link> tag, changing the type to “application/rss+xml” and the title to “RSS”, looking ahead to a time when you might want to have <link> tags for more than one XML format. Speaking […]
I need to spend some of this weekend looking into automatic linkbacks/referrals. I was looking at Mark’s referrers list (which now includes automatically discovered RSS feed links), and saw PapaScott, which reminded me that I meant to link to his link to my blogroll script, because I already liked the circular serendipity of him using […]
Add one line to your main index template. Done. Add a bookmarklet for Amphetadesk. Done. Wait for other people to add the single simple line of code so that I can just click a bookmarklet and subscribe to their RSS feed in Amphetadesk… dum de dum, do de do, hmmm. Background: RSS autodiscovery and more […]
I see that Hossein is now well over a million comments in YACCS. Congratulations, and I take back everything I said about remotely hosted comments, yet again.
While I never really liked Blogger’s barely-comprehensible error messages about being unable to find various templates and output files, I’m not sure that Tom’s current archive index (at the moment it consists of the words “template not found”) is an improvement. Especially since that template represents one of the most visible, visited, and prominent examples […]
How to import your dotcomments comments from a Blogger-powered blog into Movable Type, in roughly seventeen moderately easy steps… (Essentially the same as YACCS to Movable Type, so if you’ve seen that, there’s no point in reading further unless you actually plan on using it.)
Thanks to a blessedly bad memory, I had forgotten about the next archive-related problem with AKMA’a markover: permalinks. XHTML requires that, rather than using <a name=”<$BlogItemNumber$>”> for a permalink, you must use an id attribute, which may not start with a digit. Something along the lines of <a id=”pl<$BlogItemNumber$>”> will do nicely. For someone who […]
If you have YACCS comments from a Blogger-powered blog that you would like to import into Movable Type (and if your server runs PHP, since I don’t have Perl version of the script written yet), read on…