Thursday May 29, 2003

Re: Comments in FreeRoller

Yet another FreeRoller user yearning for comments. Debashish, use $entry.id in your "Day" template. And then start pestering Dave & Anthony to upgrade FreeRoller (I know they want to). And by the way, I dig the look of your blog.
Update: Looks like a FreeRoller upgrade is coming tonight.
( May 29 2003, 08:38:54 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [1]
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Tuesday May 20, 2003

Re: Attention Ungrateful Bastards

Man, I love this!

( May 20 2003, 10:37:53 AM ) Entertainment Permalink Comments [5]
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Re: Larger WebLogic load when using Mozilla

Jon Mountjoy wonders why Mozilla isn't obeying his getLastModified() time. I don't know why (for certain), but it sounds similar to something I read the other week in O'Reilly's Web Caching book. I don't have the book handy, but when I get a chance I'll look up the relevant bits and post something useful (hopefully).
( May 20 2003, 09:22:31 AM ) Technology Permalink
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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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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.
( May 08 2003, 02:46:45 PM ) Technology Permalink
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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?
( May 07 2003, 12:05:28 PM ) Entertainment Permalink Comments [2] [Link]
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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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For further reading on today's posts:

pippa said: finds yet another blog circle-jerk : Courtesy of Lance ... Blogtree .