Technology
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Converting RightFields to CustomFields, Now with SQL Goodness!
Back in December, I put together a script for converting RightFields data to CustomFields. This was mostly for me, but I had a few people request this sort of thing, and I had grown tired of doing it by hand, since I'm inherently lazy. There were two problems…
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Bloglines Toolkit 1.7.0
It's been a monstrous fifteen months since I last updated the Bloglines Toolkit. Frankly, there just isn't that much of a reason to do so. Unfortunately, the Bloglines Notifier API just hasn't changed that much. Ever. And since it hasn't, there just isn't that much to be done…
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Upgrading Movable Type Comments to v4.1
When Six Apart released Movable Type 4.1, with it they released an entirely new commenting architecture. And technically, the foundation was laid with…
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Microsoft Action Pack Assessment and You
If you've been a subscriber to the Microsoft Action Pack, then you might know of a couple of changes to the plan this year. First up is the requirement that you pass an assessment course. I figured I could do this when I had a chance, and so…
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Using Feed Digest to Republish Feed Content on Your Site
With version 3.31 of Movable Type, the product began shipping with feeds.app lite, which allowed some simple abilities for republishing the content of other feeds on your site, through the use of Movable Type template tags. This plugin was a great step forward, and expanded on earlier plugins…
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Microsoft eOpen Sucks
I generally like things being made available online. Sure, I have issues with putting data online, because when my connection goes out – and it will go out – I like to be able to get to it. But providing the option to get at things online is…
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Disable Template Syntax Highlighting in Movable Type 4
One of the more challenging pieces of the Movable Type administration interface in version 4 is the syntax highlighting when you are editing your templates. That's not to say that the highlighting is entirely bad, because it can be nice, and brighten your day. Rather than having a…
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How Do You Actually Control Your Email Spam?
Now that we've taken a look at getting a handle on our email spam, it's important to try and figure out how to really get on top of it. Sure, we can manage the spam process, and try to make sure that it doesn't get the better of…
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Getting a Handle on Email Spam
One of the most annoying items that we all face is undoubtedly email spam. Unfortunately, there is little that we can do about it, and so I figured that it was time to try and understand it better. Not so long ago, I made two changes that made…
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Error Deleting AVI Files in Windows XP
It seems like I just can't seem to get rid of an annoying error that crops up every once in a while where I'm unable to delete AVI files through Windows XP. To be fair, I should probably elaborate and say that I'm unable to delete AVI files…