MovableType Tips

Posted April 16th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

I’m honored to see that this little page and its MovableType category section have been included in the MovableBlog Resources area. The MovableBlog is a blog all about cool tips and tricks for maintaining your MovableType blog. Great idea!

Movable Type Modifications

Posted April 9th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Two Tricks from the MT Support Forum: How to Randomly Generate Entries How to Create a Printer-Friendly Template Of course if you are using CSS to its fullest, you can create printer-friendly pages by simply changing stylesheets. There is a tutorial at Evolt that explains how.

MovableType Tips

Posted April 5th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

[The girlie matters] has a cool collection of MovableType tips and tricks. Sadly, she is another blogger that for some reason doesn’t ping weblogs.com when she updates. I wish *everyone* with a blog would ping … it would make using blogTracker so much simpler …

send entry

Posted March 21st, 2002 and filed under Web Design.

A few people have asked me how I got that little “eMail this entry” link on my posts. I wrote a little tutorial on my projects blog describing how I did it. Enjoy.

How to Create a Pop-Up eMail This Entry Window in MovableType

Posted March 21st, 2002 and filed under blogtech, Programming.

Several people have asked me how I did it, so I wrote a tutorial on how to create a pop-up ‘eMail This Entry’ window in MovableType. Here it is. PLEASE NOTE: This tutorial is based on MovableType Version 2.1 only. If you have upgraded to Version 2.2 I advise you to wait until I have… Read more »

new MovableType

Posted March 20th, 2002 and filed under Web Design.

Yowza! MovableType 2.0 was released today. Let’s see how long it takes to upgrade / backup / install / rediscover / redesign / implement / play with my new toy!

Bloglet – Notify System

Posted March 9th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Wow! Bloglet looks cool as heck. It allows readers to subscribe to your blog as an eMail service. At the end of each day, it will eMail subscribers all of your posts (or excerpts!) from that day. Currently it only works with Blogger, but I am hoping that Ben and Mena will add support to… Read more »

MT Fix

Posted February 8th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

Here is the fix for the MovableType “unitialized value at lib/MT/App/CMS.pm line 999” error. And here’s a special link from Microsoft that should be very useful to many people.

Send Entry

Posted January 25th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

I just read on the MovableType site that Ben and Mena are getting ready to release MT version 2.0, and it will include a ‘send this entry’ feature similar to the one I’ve implemented on my blogs. So … since they are the experts, I’m not going to do any more development or write a… Read more »

Send Entry

Posted January 18th, 2002 and filed under Web Design.

If you look at the little bit at the end of each of the entries here, you’ll notice something new. Yep. My first major hack of MovableType has been a success. You can now email an entry to anyone you want through a handy pop-up window. It’s just like the Yahoo! feature. Ben – the… Read more »

SendEntry

Posted January 17th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

<Montgomery Burns> Excellent! </Montgomery Burns> I’m about 75% done with my mt-sendentry.cgi development. Youshik has been a tremendous help with some of the trickier Perl bits and Ben is the man for being so cool about answering my eMails. I really hope I can finish working on it tonight so I can have v 0.1… Read more »

Rebuild Hack

Posted January 16th, 2002 and filed under blogtech.

It was a dark and stormy night. I had a rebuild error in my individual archive template. I yelled at my monitor, “What could it be?!” I hadn’t modified that template in weeks! Something was wrong. And it was bad. I couldn’t rebuild all. Ack! What to do? I begged Ben for assistance. “Help!” I… Read more »