Technology
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Movable Type Key Mappings
So it seems that Movable Type (3.2 at least, may have been there longer) supports ALT-D for deleting an entry while on the "Edit Entry" screen. Unfortunately, this is also the keystroke to access the address bar in Internet Explorer. Luckily I don't use IE much. I could…
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Sometimes You Feel Like a Tool
I recently mentioned that I had been working with BaseCamp. I also mentioned that I liked it. The product – even the free product – has a lot to like. But then, like so many other times, I hit the wall. I wanted to do this or that,…
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MT-Blogroll and Yahoo! Hosting
As mentioned yesterday, I had some issues with Movable Type on the new Yahoo! Small Business hosting package. Most of which have now been resolved. The final problem I had was that I was unable to install MT-Blogroll on their server….
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Movable Type and Yahoo!
As you may know, Yahoo! recently announced their offering of Movable Type on their small business hosting platform. Cool. Well today I started work on my first client using this platform. Thus far I'm underwhelmed….
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File Uploads Through HTML Forms
Make sure your form is set to use the "POST" method. Make sure that the "enctype" is "multipart/form-data". Add a field of type "file". That's it for your HTML. The rest of the work is done on the host side. And that isn't really that hard either, but…
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Preventing Directory Listings
It is a good idea, for security reasons, to prevent visitors to your site from seeing the files in any given directory. While this will not prevent users from accessing the files, it will keep them from knowing what files are there, which does help to some degree….
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Moving Databases with SQL Server
Today I needed to move some databases. Data files, technically, but it's essentially the same concept. Instead of moving both the data file and the log file to another machine, I just moved the data file to the other drive, as having the data files on one drive…
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On Open Source Licensing
All of the extensions and plugins that I've written (I think) are licensed under the Open Software License. Heck, the site itself is too. This means, in a nutshell, that you can do whatever you want with these things, and I'm not responsible for the outcome. Even if…
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Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.2
This morning I released a new version of the Bloglines Toolkit (version 1.6.2, for those playing at home)….
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Structured Blogging and Right Fields
Recently we've seen the introduction of a couple new additions to the stable of Movable Type plugins, with the pre-release of the Structured Blogging plugin and the beta release of the RightFields plugin….