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First alpha release

Following the open source mantra of “release early, release often”, I’ve uploaded the first alpha release of Wordform. You can access it from SourceForge. You’ll want to backup before using this, and install the application in a database separate from your production environment. You’ll need to edit config.php to match your database information and also add […]

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My but I’m happy

That I have removed trackback support from Wordform. Today I was hit with over 1000 trackback posts that basically triggered a “Gone”, or 410 result. This was following several hundred requests yesterday, and who knows how many the day before. Since I don’t support trackback, there’s no database access to check for blacklisted keywords or […]

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Cleanup

I’ve ported all of my weblogs to Wordform and it went nicely. I’ve been doing clean up on the files, some separation of processing and presentation, and finishing up the metadata extension, but Wordform 1.0a should be ready for download in next couple of days. The files will be changing in alpha release. I’m still […]

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Open source project of the week

This morning I updated the installation and upgrade files for Wordform and converted the mostly WordPress version of the weblog to being a true Wordform application. Aside from running into some DNS problems with the server move, it went remarkably well, and I’ll try the upgrade Practical RDF, a 1.22 WP weblog, next. In this upgrade, I’m […]

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SourceForge help

Me thinks you’re all tired of hearing about Wordform, at least until you can get your hands on it (and maybe even if you can get your hands on it). Fair enough and I’ve felt that way about many a project. So I’ll restrain my normal over enthusiasm until after the first release is out […]