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New update

I just modified comment moderation to put a placeholder comment into the thread for a moderated comment, but the placeholder only shows if: The IP address of the original author matches the current user’s IP address. The current author’s name and email (from cookie) matches the comment author’s name and email. -or- The current author’s […]

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Wordform: New Update

Recovered from Wayback Machine. I just modified comment moderation to put a placeholder comment into the thread for a moderated comment, but the placeholder only shows if: The IP address of the original author matches the current user’s IP address. The current author’s name and email (from cookie) matches the comment author’s name and email. […]

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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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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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Dabblers and enthusiasm doesn’t make it so

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doug from Creative Karma sent me a link he found at Stefan Tilkov to a writing that’s been making the rounds of weblogging: Maciej Ceglowski’s Dabblers and Blowhards. In it Maciej takes on Paul Graham and his popular book and series titled, “Hackers and Painters”, and does so in a manner both pointed and funny. […]