Ben and Mena at Movable Type just released a Trackback threading tool that will build an entire tree out of MT trackbacks. Here’s a page showing the Trackbacks from one of my earlier postings Yes, this is what ThreadNeedle is supposed to do. Yes, ThreadNeedle is not finished. When you enable TrackBack for a posting, Movable Type embeds […]
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The geeks have it
Jonathon has become the latest recruit to the Geek Force. I’ll have to send him an autographed copy of Unix Power Tools 3rd edition as soon as it’s published. Just think, Jonathon– 1200 pages full of tips! (Makes a good doorstop, too.) And now Jonathon can join us in the most important debate of geekdom: Which […]
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They are intriguing
I’m not normally into tweaking the technology for the weblog, but I’m getting pulled into the lure of MT-macros, primarily through Mark Pilgrim’s infectious enthusiasm. I rather like that acronym macro. And while I’m at it, I should incorporate better search. And I should think about converting to pure CSS and getting rid of my HTML tables. […]
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Updates and a banana
Some updates: First of all, work is progressing on ThreadNeedle. My first implementation plan had to be scraped when I found that the Redland RDF infrastructure doesn’t seem to want to work on my FreeBSD machine. Additionally, the Redland Perl code also overwrote the existing Perl RDF libraries, and broke my content management system. I […]
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The Line-of-Sight Developer
I heard the term “Line-of-Sight” in reference to certain breeds of dogs, such as the Afghan. It seems that these dogs have this instinctive urge to run towards the horizon, and if they get loose, they’ll keep running towards the horizon at full speed until their owners catch them (fat chance) or until they run […]