17 Jul, 2006
reflection
I saw this post that mentioned reflection and the Wetfloor WordPress plugin. I got inspired to write a plugin for LifeType that does the same thing.
Now with the reflection plugin, any image can have the reflection effect
One thing that I want to add is some parsing of posts to make it easier to add the effect to images in posts.
Technorati Tags: LifeType, reflection, WP Wetfloor
2 Jun, 2006
coComment
I was looking at the recent checkins that were going into the LifeType tree, and I saw that a coComment plugin was added. I was curious about what this plugin did, and what coComment is.
coComment is an interesting site. It's purpose is to be a single place where you can keep track of all of the comments that you have posted to various blogs. It displays these comments in "Conversations", where you can see the thread of comments. You can also tag your comments, to help you organize them.
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2 Jun, 2006
Fixed comments
I just realized that comments were not working on this blog, if you had specified an email address. LifeType has a feature that validates email address specified in comments. When an email address is specified, it looks up the mx record for the domain, and attempts to connect to that server on port 25, and check if the server will accept mail for that email address.
The problem was that GoDaddy doesn't support outgoing connections on port 25. This is not a bug deal for me, as I have all of my outgoing mail going through one of my other servers on a different port. I had to change the LifeType configurations so the comments would work again.
Technorati Tags: comments, LifeType
19 May, 2006
FeedPass
FeedPass is a site, similar to FeedBurner were you can promote your rss feed. The page that is presented for your feed, has many subscription options, like subscribing by email or web based aggregators. Here the page for my feed.
The one feature that is different than FeedBurner, is that you can use your AdSense id to monetize your content. This is also the feature that is a little controversial. It is possible to submit any rss feed and attempt to earn revenue, even if is not your content.
I would be upset if someone else attempted to make money from my content. That is why I am using the Non-Commercial Creative Commons license on this blog.
[via The Social Software Weblog]
Technorati Tags: FeedBurner, FeedPass, rss
15 May, 2006
BackupMyBlog
I saw this post on BackupMyBlog. This is is a service that will backup data from you blog, so you can have redundant backups just in case the host becomes unavailable. If you want to use this service, you install a php script. It works by dumping the contents of your mysql database.
If you use this, make sure that you are careful of a couple of things.
- Make sure that the user that you specify a mysql user that only has read-only access to the databases used by the blog. Update: The user will need write access to restore a backup
- Often blog software store the passwords used to log in in the database. You should probably make sure that this doesn't get backed up. (You can do this by making sure that the mysql user doesn't have access to the table that stores the passwords.)
9 May, 2006
Share your OPML
Dave Winer started Share Your OPML as a place for people to share the opml files. One cool feature is that once you upload your opml file, you can see other people that have similar subscription lists. Here is my shared feed.
[via TechCrunch]
Technorati Tags: opml
4 May, 2006
Tag Cloud
This post on Performancing.com on Tag Clouds, mentions ZoomClouds. ZoomClouds will read your rss feed, and generate a tagcloud for your site. This inspired me to get the tagcloud plugin working for LifeType 1.1. So I have installed this on the left hand side of this site. I may play with it a little bit to get it to look like I want.
Technorati Tags: Tag Clouds, ZoomClouds
3 May, 2006
Link spammer
An interview with a blog comment spammer has been posted. It appears that link spammers use open relay proxies to spam, and not zombie PCs. And because of this, they feel that they are better than email spammers.
I know, that I hate when my sites are hit with a flurry of link spams. All of the spam messages are blocked, so that isn't the problem. The problem that I have is with the server load needed to handle all of these request.
But now that I have collected a list of the ip addresses that the spam comments are coming from, I am going to submit them to the open relay blacklist sites.
[via Hawk Wings]
Technorati Tags: spam
1 Apr, 2006
Upgrading blog
I have started the process of upgrading the version of LifeType I am using to the 1.1 version. I am working out the problems now, so please be patient with these changes.
Technorati Tags: LifeType
24 Mar, 2006
Blogroll with Google Reader
I saw this post that describes how articles and feeds can be shared from Google Reader. I was thinking that this would be a good replacement for BlogRolling. To use a lot of the features on BlogRolling, a paid account is require, and I haven't wanted to do that.
Here is the blogroll when using Google Reader. (javascript is required.)
19 Mar, 2006
authimage for comments
I have decided to enable authimage for posting comments. The previous filters have been successful in blocking 99% of the comment spam, but I was getting tired of few that got through.
I am a little unhappy about this, as I don't like spam filter technologies that require any additional steps for people initiating this communication.
Technorati Tags: authimage, spam
19 Mar, 2006
Disabled Bad Behavior
I have disabled the Bad Behavior script on my blog. This was blocking some of the scripts that I use to post and manage my blog, that happen to use curl. I am hoping that the improvements in the next version of LifeType will reduce the database io.
Technorati Tags: Bad Behavior, LifeType
12 Mar, 2006
Talkdigger
I just heard of Talkdigger on the latest Geek News Central podcast. This is a site that will aggregate the results from various sites that track referrals. For example, this url will run a query to show all of the sites that link to this blog.
In addition to the standard html results page, the results can be formatted in a rss feed, so you can see the new referrals in your rss aggregator.
Technorati Tags: TalkDigger
2 Mar, 2006
Geo-blogging
This is pretty cool. It is possible to have blog entries appear on the map in Google Earth. It looks like Blojsom will generate the kml2 files. Also this page has an AppleScript that will create the entries in the posts from ecto.
Now I want to write a plugin for LifeType that will generate this xml file that has the location information.
[via ecto blog]
Technorati Tags: Geo-Blogging, kml2, LifeType
18 Feb, 2006
Updated blogtimes plugin
Since I moved this server to a different timezone, just noticed that the representation of the time for each of the posts does not take into account the time zone offset.
I have a fix for the blogtimes plugin in my tree, and will be checking it in soon.
Technorati Tags: blogtimes, LifeType