Sun, Nov 30, 2003
Blog-Wiki Integration Turned On
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Long-time followers of this blog have undoubtedly noticed my habit of
smooshing seemingly harmless words together. I often do it with
people's names -- for example, EugeneEricKim. Some of you may have
guessed why I did this, but most of you probably figured my space key
was broken. (GB)
Starting today, my reasons should be more clear. Notice that
"EugeneEricKim" is not only improperly written, it is now also a
link. Browse through my older blog entries, and you'll notice that
all of the smooshed words are either links or are followed by a
question mark link. This is blog-Wiki integration at its finest. (GC)
See more....
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Posted at 3:11pm
Thu, Nov 20, 2003
Upgraded Blosxom and Plugins
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I finally upgraded blosxom to 2.0, which has
been available for a few months now. I upgraded Tatsuhiko Miyagawa's
ping_weblogs_com_xmlrpc to v0.06 (after fixing a minor bug), and I
installed two new plugins: entriescache_purple and
Rob Hague's cooluri. (BJ)
See more....
/tech/blosxom |
Posted at 10:24am
Mon, Aug 18, 2003
purple v0+1i blosxom Plugin Released
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purple v0+1i is now available, both as part of the
official PurpleWiki
distribution and on its
own. Now you too can have cool purple thingies on your blog! (8J)
/tech/blosxom/purple |
Posted at 11:22pm
Wed, Aug 13, 2003
Purple Metadata in Blosxom
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PurpleWiki supports document metadata. The metadata is stored at the
beginning of the document using the following syntax: (6Y)
{name value} (6Z)
Currently, PurpleWiki supports the following metadata: (70)
All of this metadata is available to blosxom
via the purple plugin under the $purple namespace. However,
I'd also like to override blosxom's mechanism for determining an
entry's title and date. (77)
See more....
/tech/blosxom/purple |
Posted at 9:56am
Sat, Jul 19, 2003
CSS Stylesheets for EEK Speaks
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I got an e-mail from Steve Iman, who had downloaded my
blosxom flavours
files for this blog. He said that it took him a while before he
realized he needed my CSS
stylesheet to make the flavour files work. (3E)
I didn't include any CSS files in the package, because they are
publicly available from my web site. However, you will definitely
need them if you want to play with my flavour files. Here are the
direct links: (3F)
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Posted at 3:40pm
Thu, Jul 17, 2003
Stable URLs in Blosxom
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One of the problems with blosxom is that it
does not implement truly stable URLs. (Of course, one could argue
that no URLs on the Web are truly stable, but that's a topic for
another day.) (2D)
Bloxom uses the filesystem for data storage and categories. This is one of its
distinguishing features. It makes it easy to set up and install, it
makes it easy to edit entries (use the editor of your choice, or build
your own Web entry system, like
wikieditish), and you can easily preprocess entries either statically
or dynamically. My blosxom_purple plugin takes advantage of this
latter fact, as do many other plugins. (2E)
Its dependence on the filesystem also has its drawbacks. It's hard to
keep the date of each entry stable, because blosxom uses the
timestamp of the file for the date. If you modify the file at all,
the date changes.
(Plugins like
entries_index fix this problem.) Multiple categories are possible
via symbolic links, but this is hackish at best. And worst of all, it
prevents you from having truly stable URLs. (2F)
See more....
/tech/blosxom |
Posted at 1:03pm
