MovableBlog: Asides: April 2005
April 30, 2005
Apps that Apple's OS X 10.4 Tiger killed [#]
April 29, 2005
Apple sued over "Tiger" name 
I'm surprised Dan Nakamura hasn't sued Apple yet. [#]
De-uglify Mail in Tiger If you can believe it, the "new" Mail buttons was, until seeing Cage Fighter, a dealbreaker from buying Tiger for me. [#]
April 26, 2005
Jason Kottke on the 'new' Internet Six Apart, he says, "is like a black hole for creative people". [#]
Wiki-based notes of The Social Impact of Computers by Richard Rosenberg Michelle has some questions about using wikis to summarize books and takes notes collaboratively. [#]
Google Adsense in RSS feeds? If it's an HTML version, that means you can 'syndicate' the ads on your site, meaning that will create keywords which Google could index. If that's the case, those syndicating would be ranked for whatever keywords appear in the ads. [#]
April 24, 2005
Matt Read claims that Wordpress template tags aren't PHP Except for the minor detail that Wordpress template tags are, wait for it, PHP functions. [#]
April 20, 2005
Fix for PHPTemplate-based Drupal themes that leave a huge space in beween elements on the page [#]
Pimp My CMS All MT at the moment. [#]
Skype introduces IM by stealth Everybody understands a 'telephone call', even if it's 'just' over the Internet. Skype gives instant messaging to people who didn't think they needed it. [#]
Trained wolves "Once an example of something exists [...] expect your software to be cloned in the open source world." So right, in other words, SuperÜberTurboPAS. [#]
April 19, 2005
Matt thinks there should be an open source alternative to Meetup.com +1. Quick, deploy SuperÜberTurboPAS! [#]
April 18, 2005
TypeMover "adds backup, restore and migration features [to Movable Type] that let you get your data in and out of your servers." [#]
MT releases 3.16 bug fix Lots more fixes than the 0.01 increment would indicate. [#]
April 17, 2005
Yahoo! News, currently in beta, redesigns with web standards and clean layout Tables only used for headers and footers, the rest are unordered lists and CSS. Special features have prominent links to RSS feeds. Could still use cleaner URLs, though. [#]
If you used the node_privacy_byrole module in 4.5, disabled it, then upgraded to 4.6 re-enable the module That only took a week of wondering why 'anonymous' users couldn't see content on my Watching China site. PubSub (specifically the feed for 'Drupal') comes through again! [#]
April 16, 2005
PubSub disallows search engine crawling on their RSS feeds Same for their Atom feeds. Why? [#]
April 15, 2005
Anil on the Workflow plugin Now you can do for a fee in Movable Type what comes 'out of the box' with Drupal, an open source CMS! [#]
April 14, 2005
Unofficial documentation on posting daily from del.icio.us to your weblog Instructions are specific to Movable Type. [#]
April 13, 2005
Six Apart Store If Matt Haughey recommends it, who am I to refuse? After reading Mena's announcement, though, I wondered why "Six Apparel" wasn't the logical choice for the store's name, or at least the clothing line. [#]
Reverse bounties A model to price both how much someone will pay for open source development—and openly give them credit for such payment—and at what price someone will do it for. [#]
April 12, 2005
Avoid Movable Type's comment date bug by placing MTCommentEntry oustide the container [#]
April 11, 2005
Amazon.com among investors in del.icio.us Amazon.com seems to think that this tagging phenomenon might catch on. [#]
April 9, 2005
Brad Choate introduces SpamLookup, adding more comment protection for Movable Type It's pretty slick, compatible with MT-Blacklist too. [#]
April 8, 2005
Funny digitally enhanced photo of the Sxip team It must be Friday. [#]
April 7, 2005
Using Google Adsense with Drupal I wrote something similar for the work documentation site. [#]
Blogger sucks "Imagine what they might say if they actually paid for the service?" [#]
April 6, 2005
Wordpress' wp-links-opml.php shows links that aren't visible, so I've provided a patch Once you've saved the text file to your host, run patch -u wp-links-opml.php wp-links-opml.php.patch.txt to correct that bug. [#]
Rogers Cadenhead runs homebrewed blogging software So, if I remember correctly, does my way-geekier-than-me cousin. [#]
April 5, 2005
Search engines love Drupal [#]
Arieanna has some thoughts on social networking with Flickr Only websites and 'social software' that approximate how people do (or did) things in the 'real' world will succeed. (The best social software sites, at least conceptually, are still upcoming.org and meetup.com, which actually encourage you to leave the computer, which is not required, at home.) [#]
April 4, 2005
"From newbie request on a mailing list, to functioning release in one week." A short tale of how Clipboard Watcher became a reality. [#]
Drupal programming from an object-oriented perspective [#]
Thoughts on APIs and funding open source development [#]
Phil calls his 'sidebar' links "Shorts" and explains how he implements it in Movable Type [#]
Tim Bray: if you have Adsense ads on semi-private (not linked-to) pages, Googlebot will pick up on it He says "So anyone who’s running AdSense gets indexed first & fastest", but something tells me that just because Googlebot visits, doesn't mean it's indexed on the publicly available search engine. A proper experiment would first check to see if, by searching for an exact phrase in that semi-private writing, whether search engine users would be able to access that writing. [#]
Rogers Cadenhead: Canadian newspapers haven't quite figured out the web It's worse than it appears. [#]
