Technology
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On Movable Type Plugins
I just read an interesting post about Movable Type and plugins (specifically Workflow). In a nutshell, the argument is that Movable Type is a product – one which costs money – and having to buy add-ons to provide what is perceived as core functionality isn't a good thing….
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Trend Micro Web Console Problems
Ran into a problem today where a customer was receiving an odd message when they tried to login to the Trend Micro web console for OfficeScan: Your OfficeScan session has timed out. Please log in again. This message in Google didn't turn up much. Rather, it didn't turn…
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MT-Moderate and SimpleComments
A number of you have mentioned that you would like to use MT-Moderate, specifically to moderate trackbacks, but are unable to do so because you also use SimpleComments. Because of the way in which I'm making trackbacks moderated, they will still appear in SimpleComments lists of trackbacks. Now,…
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Dynamic Encoding of Ampersands
As you know, I recently converted a number of my archives so that they would use dynamic publishing. Today, I continued the push by converting daily archives and also category feeds to dynamic publishing. Thus far, they seem to be working pretty well, and I've been able to…
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Another Toolkit Release
I could claim that the last entry on the subject was simply an April Fool's joke, but in reality there are two reasons why that is not the case. One is that there are so many such jokes on the internet that the world doesn't need one from…
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Toolkit in Chinese and French
Thanks to Peter Chu and Xavier Robin, the Bloglines Toolkit is now available in Chinese (Taiwan, R.O.C, zh-TW) and French (fr-FR), respectively. Automatic updates should process this change automatically, or you can use the link to download the update….
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True Smarty Pagination
While my earlier example illustrated the concept of automating pagination with Smarty in your Movable Type archives, I had a couple of problems with it….
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Even More fun with Smarty
One of the things that bothered me about the switch to dynamic archives is that I had to stop using the Compare plugin, since it doesn't support dynamic publishing (or didn't, at any rate). With the use of Smarty, you can very easily reproduce this functionality, and though…
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Automated Smarty Pagination
As mentioned previously, using Smarty for pagination isn't difficult. Of course, the simple example already given doesn't really do much – your users would still need to know about it, and manually construct the URL. That wouldn't be much fun. Using Smarty, we can do the work for…
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Pagination Using Smarty
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm now using Smarty to provide pagination in my category archives. The code is inserted directly into the template, and (apparently) when it rebuilds the template it parses that code prior to rendering the page. It's actually quite impressive. Thanks again to Brad, not…