Technology
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Install Movable Type Under Apache Tomcat
I haven't done a lot of work with Apache Tomcat previously, so when someone asked if they could install Movable Type, I had to do a bit of digging to see if it was possible. The answer is actually yes – but it's not the most intuitive installation….
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Using Pageant with PuTTY at pair Networks
One of the reasons I like pair Networks is the shell account. I don't always need shell access, but it's really useful to have it when I do need it. Much better than the alternative – needing it and not having it. One question that comes up when…
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How to Export Tags from Movable Type 3.3x
Over on Learning Movable Type, Jaclyn asked why she wasn't able to get tags imported to a new MT4 installation. While Movable Type 4 includes an entry's tags in the import specifications, and also exports those tags when saving the data, no prior versions have exported the tags,…
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Dynamic Movable Type or Static WordPress?
As is fairly common, there has been a good amount of talk about how blogs manage to scale recently, and what has been interesting to see is the discussion around just what it is that is required to keep things running. Let's assume that you've decided not to…
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Using Yahoo! Pipes to Extract Data You Want
Let's say that you've read all the hubbub about aXXo – one of the most popular seeders of movies, whether you like him or don't – and how he suddenly removed all of his torrents from The Pirate Bay. And you want to be sure that you're getting…
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How to Totally Replace Outlook (in Windows)
For a very long time I was a faithful Outlook user. Well, that's not true. I wasn't really loyal to Outlook specifically or Microsoft generally. I just used Outlook at work and so I used Outlook at home. It was what I knew and I was used to…
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Failed to Load OpenPGP Keys From Keyrings
I have been a user of WS_FTP for a while – years, in fact. I can't even tell you when I started using it. I'm sure that it was in the 1990s sometime. But at one point, I started getting this error – Failed to Load OpenPGP Keys…
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What to Watch Out for When Upgrading Custom Fields
If your Movable Type installation uses extra fields and you want to use MT4, then at this point, you really only have one option – Custom Fields. The plugin, currently in something of a perpetual beta because Arvind is in the US for school, allows you to easily…
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Install Movable Type 4 in Yahoo! Small Business
While it seems that the Yahoo! Small Business web hosting packages continue to offer Movable Type as an option, and there has been some talk about Yahoo! not supporting MT4, while Six Apart doesn't really seem to support MT4 at Yahoo! Nice, huh? So what are you to…
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Install Movable Type Under Windows (IIS)
Though the vast majority of installations I work with use LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) to run Movable Type, there are also a few where my client would like to place Windows in that equation. While it's a possibility to run Apache on Windows, Internet Information Server (IIS)…