Movable Type
Tips, tricks, and useful info on how to use the Movable Type publishing system to manage your blog.
Validating comments (and fixing comment preview)
Only valid HTML 4.01 Strict is allowed in comments posted on 456 Berea Street, thanks to Jacques Distler’s MTValidate plugin.
Software update day: Netscape, Camino, NetNewsWire, Movable Type
Several major updates to Web related software that I use either on a daily basis or for testing purposes were released on the same day.
MT-Blacklist 1.65, Movable Type 2.65 and Perl 5.8.8
How to solve a compatibility problem with MT-Blacklist 1.65, Movable Type 2.65 and Perl 5.8.8.
Fixing the dirify function in Movable Type
A solution to the buggy character substitution that Movable Type performs when converting post titles to URL fragments.
Server maintenance
How to fix a problem with MT-Blacklist giving a Byte order is not compatible error.
Commenting update
Adding comments to posts at this site should be easier now.
Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam
How comment spam works and how to fight it.
Author comment highlighting troubles
Having seen, and liked, how some people have implemented author comment highlighting on their sites, I wanted to do the…
Going from iso-8859-1 to utf-8
I’d like to start using utf-8 for character encoding. This whole site is currently in iso-8859-1. Each time I try…
Site update: Quicklinks
I’ve added a section called “Quicklinks” to the sidebar. I needed somewhere to post interesting links together with just a…
Back from nowhere
I’m sort of back from a much needed break, but it will be another couple of weeks before I resume…
Trackback ID?
How the hell do trackback ID:s work in Movable Type? I just can’t figure out how to find out what…
Blacklisting
Posting comments at this site has only been possible for a day, so I have no problems with comment spam…
Getting there
I’ve spent most of the weekend tweaking things around here. Nothing seems completely broken, but there are one or two…
Moved to Movable Type
A couple of weeks back I experimented with Movable Type, running it locally on my OS X machine and then…
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