phil ringnalda

If your host disables PHP’s exec(), system() and passthru(), popen() may be your only way out to the operating system.

Save your worrying about dynamic publishing in MT for things like server load and speed and whether you can live without the plugins that don’t work: there’s no need to worry about Google losing track of your pages, because the URLs for your permalinks don’t change at all.

Apparently, Technorati believes anything a feed (or at least Hot Links’ feed) tells it, and can’t tell a link from an rdf:about.

Time I got back in several saddles, not the least of them Movable Type plugin writing. I’ve been thinking today about posting like it’s a dead fly on your tongue, and about posting like you didn’t know that weblog software company employees have to always remember the banjo, and their code equivalent, Release Early, Release […]

Hixie’s looking for some support from Google for a WHAT-WG-sponsored HTML extension to say “I don’t endorse the links inside this element, for all I know they’re comment spam.”

People keep saying that everyone posting replies on their own weblogs is somehow a better replacement for comments. Have they ever given it more than a second’s thought, particularly from the viewpoint of a reader?

A (not so) quick review of Microsoft’s new blog tool, MSN Spaces, including an answer to the question you’ve been dying to ask: will their RSS be funky?

Microsoft enters the “Web log service” market, in Japan.

Yet another plan for (comment) spam. Moderate URLs, moderate old moribund threads, and let moderated comments evaporate if they don’t get approved quickly enough.

The XHTML validator comes to visit, and looks like it’s willing to stay around my comments and entries for a while.