Posted in Blogging on Nov 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Today we got Coldfusion successfully installed on the production Linux server that is going to run our Movable Type weblogs. My team has spent quite a bit of time trying to get this set up properly and just before Thanksgiving they were finally successfully. I’m more than thrilled that not only can we get this [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) has a post pointing to a good article comparing and contrasting self-hosted blogging options. The article provides a clear and concise overview of Textpattern, Movable Type, and Wordpress. There is a good comparison chart of these different systems, as well as links to examples blogs using each of these blogging [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve been working very diligently here to get Movable Type up and running so that all the weblog would be dynamic and easily manageable. Additionally, we’ve been testing to see how much we can lock down the Movable Type server without breaking Movable Type. Today I was finally successfully in getting a completely dynamic site [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 No Comments »
The first step to getting WYSIWYG editing for Movable Type is by adding the EnhancedEntryEditing plug-in. The directions on this page a very good and they will help you get the plug-in installed and working in a snap.
So you’ve added the plug-in, but you notice that whenever you create a new blog you are missing [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I said that I would get back to everyone about how set up linked templates as the defaults in Movable Type. I did some investigating and found out its possible. However, I will say in advance of my explanation that you might want to polish your Perl readings skills and Unix permissions skills a bit. [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
We’ve been in the process of installing Movable Type to use here for the Libraries’ weblogs. However, Movable Type doesn’t completely meet all of our needs out of the box. So the web developers and I have been working to tweak it. Some of the tweaking has been creating a template for the weblogs that [...]
Posted in Blogging on Sep 14th, 2005 1 Comment »
We’ve been working on installing and configuring a test instance of Moveable Type this week and during that process I’ve noticed some significant differences between it and Wordpress. One of the most obvious differences is that Moveable Type is Perl-based and Wordpress is PHP-based. Beyond this there are other significant functional differences between the two. [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Bloglines Improvements
Often I use Bloglines to compose posts for my weblog then copy them
over to Radio later. This is for several reasons. First, I can't access
Radio from work Second, I do my news reading in Bloglines and it is
often easier to grab stuff from there and add it to a post this way.
One thing that [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ongoing Projects on Jan 14th, 2005 No Comments »
Another step closer to completion
Today the consultant and I worked on integrating a WYSIWYG editor into
my XML-based blogging tool. After a couple hours we were able to
integrate the code from Cross Browser Rich Text Editor into the blogging tool. I need to make a PayPal donation to the guy who created this code
because it saved [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Nov 11th, 2004 No Comments »
Hectic days
If you have been wondering if I disappeared of the face of the
earth, the answer is “no, I've just been very busy.” My time has been
occupied with article writing (one for Computers in Libraries and another to be sent off to another yet to be determined
journal), search commitees, all my normal work, and presentation [...]
