Wednesday May 14, 2003
Wednesday May 14, 2003
Out Damn Spot!
Man, I've been getting "pounded" by referer-spam this week. To help those others of you running Roller, here are some names to add to your filter: cgifactory.net,downloadworx,salesdex,hostedcron,nametipz.
Go to the Website:Settings page and near the bottom is a textarea labelled " Ignore referering URLs that contain any of these (comma separated) words:". Copy-paste the offenders listed above into the textarea, and help stop referrer-spam!
Here's another one: free-proxy.
05/16/2003: another - adult.resourcepop.com
05/30/2003: more - openproxies and phplabs
05/31/2003: perlcoders
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Friday May 09, 2003
On "Hackers and Painters"
I finally got around to reading this paper that everyone has been passing around. Mr. Graham (may I call you Paul?) doesn't say anything I didn't already know, really, but I did like this quote:
Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.
Later, Paul discusses empathy with "If someone asks (a hacker) at a dinner party what a programming language is, they'll say something like...", continuing with a pathetic explanation. I don't know that mine is any better, but I once tried to explain inheritance to a VP:
Think of a cat. Now think of the most generic description of a cat: four legs, fur, whiskers, a tail. This is the Cat superclass. Now a specific breed, say Manchester Blue, is an class which extends Cat. This makes "Fluffy" an instance of Manchester Blue, and also a Cat.
This isn't exactly how it went (a couple years ago). I don't know if I really got the point across, but I know I got the VP's attention and amusement. Hmm, there was also something about hairless cats and those that cannot meow. I remember labeling my little speel the "Bald Cat Speech", or was it the "Meow-less Cat?" My wife liked it too, though I don't think she understood any more than the VP did.
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May 09 2003, 02:36:41 PM
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Thursday May 08, 2003
Re: Extending the WeblogMetaAPI
Beginning with Diego's review I've started following the "blogging API's" more closely. I joined the WeblogMetaAPI mailing list where Rogers Cadenhead posted some (arguably) good points.
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May 08 2003, 02:46:45 PM
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Wednesday May 07, 2003
Re: It's a boy
Okay, BlogTree is fun. Amusingly, I now have a Child which is also a Sibling. Dave, have you spawned some sort of incestuous family?
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May 07 2003, 12:05:28 PM
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Blog Portability
Of course, as soon as I opened my mouth I remembered Dave Winer's Formats for Blog Browsers. It has already been suggested that this would make a good format for porting blogs (it's really just RSS 2.0). So the next step would be to write an export/import utility for Roller & RSS2, then anyone could import there 'old' feed into their new Roller account.
The one part not readily portable is the user account: outside of username/password and maybe email, what could we standardize across blog servers?
Later: If we use RSSlibJ we could parse any RSS/RDF feeds - populating Roller with whatever info we can attain.
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May 07 2003, 10:39:17 AM
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Tuesday May 06, 2003
Re: Roller suggestions - Take II
Arjun has several suggestions, but the one about the permalink icon catches my attention. Even though his suggestion is for #showEntryPermalink($entry, $image) I'm guessing he means the *day* permalink - since currently entry permalinks don't use icons but rather just text ("#"). Still, this would be a useful feature for both
In Roller 0.9.7 and above we've moved to using real Velocimacros, so you'll be able to override the #show[Day|Entry]Permalink([$day|$entry]) macros with your own implementation. But having a standard macro for this could be useful as well.
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May 06 2003, 08:14:35 AM
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Monday May 05, 2003
Re: a review of blogging APIs
Note to self: stay on top of this discussion and this "tutorial".
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Sunday May 04, 2003
The Undocumented Castor
Since I've never heard of one hosted elsewhere, I've started a wiki for Castor. I'm calling it The Undocumented Castor. For now I've only got it installed and the main page slightly altered. Anyone who would like to help out is welcome. Thanks.
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