Dreamhost Meltdown

Posted January 11th, 2003 and filed under blogtech.

Had a slight meltdown here at the ol’ weblog this afternoon. It seems that Dreamhost decided to rename a computer – specifically the one that hosts all my websites – without telling anyone. That caused a bit of a problem since the MovableType CMS (That’s the engine that drives this page!) needs to know the… Read more »

MT

Posted June 27th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Holy Macaroni! What a terrific birthday present; and I didn’t even realize it until today. (Today is the day after my birthday.) Movabletype 2.2 has been released! And wow! Look at all the new goodies!

Comment the Link

Posted May 24th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Jason @ JPlay has written a great tutorial on how to add a user comment to the pop-up send-link hack. I’ve gotten multiple requests for this, so I’m sure it will interest many readers. Thanks, Jason!

PING!

Posted May 10th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Philringnalda.com has a great tip on how to ping both weblogs.com and blo.gs when you publish from Movable Type. Read it.

Main Index Template

Posted May 10th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

The Additional Entry Text of this entry contains the complete contents of my MovableType Main Index Template for this blog. It might be interesting to you if you’re trying to learn how to do something I’ve done here. (Note that it is my ugliest template; I tend to do lots of testing and futzing with… Read more »

Blogdata

Posted May 6th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

BlogData Tutorial At the bottom (or top) of each post on this site (and almost all of my MovableType blogs) I present a set of icons which I consider the entry’s “blogdata”. I thought I would share with everyone exactly how I do that. MovableType is excellent for this sort of thing, and Ben and… Read more »

PowerLinks

Posted May 4th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Well that was fun. Way back in March I implemented the PowerLinks MT hack from scottandrew.com. When I upgraded to MT2.11 I lost the hack, of course. So I re-hacked it. I played with it a bit and added a few more features. One thing I have wanted to do since day one was add… Read more »

edit_entry.tmpl

Posted May 4th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

So … this is a test of my modified edit_entry.tmpl file …

To Do

Posted May 3rd, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Currently To Do: add a custom field to entries write a tutorial about adding a custom field to entries write a tutorial about the blogdata module change Media Obsessions to a generic review blog create a running media blog figure out a way to get updated Red Sox scores on my page redesign sidebar(s) do… Read more »

Get a Degree

Posted April 29th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

nf0 has written an article that describes How to Add the current Temperature to a Movable Type Blog Entry. (I cannot imagine why you would want to post the temperature which corresponds to a blog entry. But I’ve worked with databases and users long enough to know that no niche should ever go unfilled. Someone,… Read more »