Posted in Blogging on Feb 25th, 2007 No Comments »
In the last couple weeks, we’ve been having some problems with blog comment and trackback spam with the UH Libraries blogs. I wasn’t sure exactly how to deal with this and because I don’t control the network I didn’t want to start blocking IP addresses (this is something I’d have to ask someone else to [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve just been reading the basic release notes for Wordpress 2.1 and I’m pretty excited about what I’m seeing. Below are a few of the features that I’m really excited about.
Spellchecking - I can’t spell well so I’m really looking forward to this. Granted since I moved to Firefox 2.0 I already have spellchecking but [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Jan 8th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve switched to Google Reader for news aggregation and for the most part love it dearly. One of the features I like the best is the fact that I can share my feeds as an Atom feed. I can do this for all my feeds or just for ones I’ve categorized a specific way. [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 18th, 2006 9 Comments »
So I spent some time today playing with Wordpress MU because I wanted to try it out and see how it compared with Movable Type as a multi-blog, multi-user blogging environment. We’ve been using Movable Type for blogging for the last year but for a number of different reasons (the biggest being we don’t have [...]
Posted in Blogging on Sep 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress has been driving me crazy for a while. So today I broke down and completely replaced it with a plugin called Advanced WYSIWYG Editing. One thing you have to keep in mind if you want to get this plugin to work with Wordpress 2.0.4 is that you need to install [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
So I’ve been trying to find a reasonable work around for the fact that you can’t include PHP code in any of the Movable Type System templates or include modules in the System Templates that contain PHP. I tried a couple different solutions with no luck but riding home on the bus one day came [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 10th, 2006 3 Comments »
I upgraded my Firefox recently and the upgrade seems to have broken the Enhanced Entry Editing plugin for Movable Type. The plugin sort of works in Safari although I get a message saying that it isn’t really supported. I’m pretty annoyed by this because one of the reasons I liked the plugin is that it [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 6th, 2006 No Comments »
So I’ve been working to get my comment form templates in Movable Type to look and work like the rest of my templates. The problem is that these templates are governed in part by the mt-comment.cgi file which is written and Perl. As a result, you can’t insert PHP code into these templates or include [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 4th, 2006 No Comments »
The last two days I spent most of my time developing a contact form in PHP for Movable Type. I didn’t have any trouble writing a plain old contact form. The problems all started when I moved it to Movable Type. The main issues is the fact that I can’t seem to get things to [...]
Posted in Blogging on Dec 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Well this week started the blogging pilot project at University Houston Libraries. So far we have two internal blogs and two external blogs that are up and running. Probably the biggest challenge with the process was knowing so little Perl that it was difficult to do anything useful with Movable Type’s Perl API. That [...]
