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Paul Westbrook | 07 July, 2007 02:22

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LifeType 1.2.3

Paul Westbrook | 08 June, 2007 20:15

LifeType 1.2.3 has been released.  This version has several new features and many bug fixes.

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Updated Related Posts plugin

Paul Westbrook | 02 June, 2007 02:42

I have updated the Related Posts plugin for LifeType with some features:

  1. Added the option to get keywords out of the body of the message, instead of just the title.  (This does cause generating related posts to take longer.)
  2. Added the ability to specify words that should be not used to generate the list of related posts.

This will be available for download as soon as the plugins are pushed to sourceforge.

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Related plugin for LifeType

Paul Westbrook | 28 May, 2007 02:40

I have written a plugin for LifeType that generates a list of articles that are related to a given plugin.  This currently only uses the keywords from the title, so the list of related articles is not that great.  The next change that I am planning on making is to extract the relevant keywords out of the body of the post.

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Findory Neighbors

Paul Westbrook | 14 May, 2007 11:22

I just discovered that Findory generates an interesting "blog cloud" of the blogs that are related to each other.  Some of the blogs listed on my cloud are pretty interesting.

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Twitter plugin

Paul Westbrook | 28 April, 2007 02:50

I am interested in integrating LIfeType into various services for sending notifications.  I just whipped up a plugin to post "tweets" to Twitter when a new post is added.

Here is the wiki page for the Twitter plugin.  The plugin uses the class provided by David Billingham.

This is the type of thing that I think Twitter is perfect for: automatic notification of various processes.

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Linkify

Paul Westbrook | 01 April, 2007 02:08

Linkify is a simple, but effective bookmarklet that makes it easy to create hyperlinks from a term or phrase, in browser text entry fields.  To use it, just select some text, and then click on the Linkify. Then an iframe appears with search results from Google.

Each result entry also has a "create link" link.  If that link is selected, the selected text is replaced with the html link.

[via Matt Cutts SEO blog]

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comments fixed

Paul Westbrook | 30 March, 2007 23:26

I have fixed comments on this site.  I was playing with the closecomments plugin for LifeType, which automatically disables comments after they reach a certain age.  Guess what... comments get disabled.

I am now re-enabling comments on all posts, so things should be back to normal.

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posting within del.icio.us

Paul Westbrook | 22 March, 2007 02:12

Sometimes I find interesting sites that I want to post about, but I don't want to do a whole post.  del.icio.us has the ability to automatically make daily posts with the bookmarks for a day.

This is definitely an experimental feature.  The setting ui, accessed from settings / daily blog posting, is definitely minimalistic:

Daily Blog Posting

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LifeType 1.2

Paul Westbrook | 20 March, 2007 21:35

LifeType 1.2 has been released.  This adds some new features like:

I have installed this on several installations, and it works seamlessly.

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Fixed bug in Post Trackback script

Paul Westbrook | 17 March, 2007 22:36

I just fixed a bug in the Post Trackback script.  There was a bug where if your post had a link to an image, the script was attempting to find a trackback url from the image.

I have update the disk image here.

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Twitter

Paul Westbrook | 17 March, 2007 21:26

I just don't get it.  I understand that Twitter allows you to keep a "micro-blog", where each entry can only be 140 characters.  I also understand that you can see what your friends are doing, when they enter their "tweets"

If I wanted to post everything, the entries would be "home", "at work", "fixing bugs", "reading email", "working on documentation", "in a meeting".  These are all things can can be communicated though IM status messages.  Also, I am sure that most of my friends would have similar status messages.

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Updated Post Trackback script

Paul Westbrook | 13 March, 2007 21:19

When I upgraded to the Mac Book Pro, the Post Trackback script, that is used to send trackbacks from within ecto, stopped working.  The mgrep scripting addition, was only compiled for PPC, so script fails to run on an Intel Mac.

I finally got around to removing the dependancy on this addition.  Now this script runs a perl script with the do shell script command, to to the parsing.

The new version of the script can be found here.

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Really Simple Discovery for LifeType

Paul Westbrook | 12 March, 2007 00:27

The Really Simple Discovery specification makes it very easy for xmlrpc client to discover the xmlrpc url as well as the xmlrpc APIs that blogging software supports.  If this is implemented, all a user needs to know is the blog url, and their user name and password.  They will not need to know what url needs to be used when using xmlrpc communication.

I decided to implement this as a plugin for LifeType 1.2, and it works very well.  Here is the wiki page for the plugin.  I will update the page to include the real link, once the 1.2 plugins are pushed to sourceforge.  In the mean time, the plugin can be downloaded though svn or in the latest snapshot.

[via Red Sweater Blog]

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LifeType 1.2

Paul Westbrook | 02 March, 2007 22:37

I have just updated this blog to the latest beta version of LifeType 1.2.  (I had been running it on some other blogs.)  The upgrade was pretty seamless.  The wizard took care of upgrading the database, without any problems.

This page describes the new features in LifeType 1.2

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