Categories
Just Shelley

What made my day today

Gord, at poeticgeek.net. All this writing makes me questions Shelley’s humanity. I have come to the conclusion that she is actually a sophisticated robot using a markov generator to make compelling entries. There is no way a human being can consistently produce witty, helpful, and well-written articles. I swear that women like Shelley make me question […]

Categories
Connecting

Open comment thread: inline comment preview

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though at this time I’m running WordPress 1.02 on my main weblog, and hadn’t planned on adding more hacks until moving to 1.2, I did hear your calls– like the far off sad sighs of birds hidden among the dense growth of the forests I walk: We need comment preview! […]

Categories
Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: File creations in PHP is nobody’s problem

L is for Linux, A is for Apache, and P is for PHP Before providing instructions for two of the tweaks I made to WordPress 1.2–multiple weblog emulated support and generating static pages–I need to spend some time on the issue of permissions and writing to directories from a PHP application. Typically, when a web […]

Categories
Weblogging

There are no poor social software scientists

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Last week Liz Lawley wrote what I thought was a very thoughtful piece, both at her weblog and at Many-to-Many. She wrote: I think we’re watching a significant moment in weblog history. Justified or not, the anger among MovableType’s users will push many of them to new tools, and has permanently changed the […]

Categories
Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: PHP is not always open

P is for PHP Right about now I imagine all those folks who downloaded the promotional free versions of ExpressionEngine given out over the weekend are finding something out: not all PHP is ‘open’. PHP source code can be encrypted so that the source code cannot be viewed, much less edited or copied. From the bit of […]