Technology
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Dynamic Publishing on Media Template
In working with a client, it became apparent that something was amiss with their server. Anytime we tried to set the offset in an MTEntries container, we would get an error. Please note, this was while using dynamic publishing. Static publishing should be fine. And also, as with…
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MySQL Search and Replace
I really, really wanted to do a search and replace in MySQL, but I just couldn't find it. Then I did. update tablename set field = replace(field,'search','replace');…
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Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.0
Version 1.6.0 of the Bloglines Toolkit is now available for download. The toolkit currently supports 8 languages out-of-the-box (contact me if you want to add more) and has been configured to be compatible with the 1.5 beta version of Firefox. Those of you with automatic update checking should…
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Enhanced Berkeley DB Conversions
While I haven't done a ton of Berkeley DB conversions for Movable Type, I am certain that if you are still on Berkeley, you should get onto a SQL pacakge pronto. This isn't to say that BDB is a bad product. Just that SQL is so much easier…
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FCKeditor and Movable Type
A client recently asked if I could install FCKeditor into Movable Type. Thanks to some detailed instructions, it was surprisingly easy….
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Date Displays with PHP
Just a few minutes ago, a friend asked about displaying a future date on his web site. In this particular example, he wanted the name of the next month. In other words, he'd like the word "October" displayed, since it is currently September. Next month it should change…
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Movable Type v3.2
The long-awaited Movable Type upgrade to version 3.2 is now available. Get to upgrading, already!…
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Windows XP Keyboard Errors
We ran into an issue where the (PS2) keyboard and mouse stopped working altogether. In the Device Manager, it showed them as having errors, and the message was "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality (Code 32)."…
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Flash Popups in Firefox
Those of you who have used Firefox for a while have undoubtedly encountered a problem with certain types of popups getting past the generally outstanding popup blocker in the software. It is puported that these may be caused by Flash – and this tip alleges to fix the…
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Update Your Config File
Especially with the file actually changing names, I cannot recommend strongly enough that when you update Movable Type, you also update your configuration file. Almost every release introduces new configuration directives. If you don't update your file, you're going to be missing something – and you may actually…