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The tools of my trade

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May 11th, 2004
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Following in the footsteps of many other technical sites published by programmers, I want to go through, list and thank the developers of the tools that I use to blog and code. I use all of these tools at one time or the other and believe that they give me great power in what I do. Text editor – TextPad: I use TextPad exclusively. I have actually paid the shareware price for it because I believe that this product is a gem. It has plug-ins for almost every kind of code, jas keyword highlighting built into it and has never, ever caused my system to crash (knock on wood). It is free for use and has a very simple plug-in development structure. It is fast, has a very small footprint and DOES NOT put in hidden characters of death. I also use it for all of my windows based text […]

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IRC to blog script

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May 10th, 2004
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Code, Cool Scripts, Weblog Add-Ons, WordPress Hack

I wanted to tinker with the socket capabilities of PHP and wrote some small scripts to support automatic blogging of IRC conversations. It turned out pretty well after a few changes and issues that needed to be resolved. Here are the results. The likely suspect is the #wordpress channel on irc.freenode.net where developers, contributors as well as helpful friendly folk hang out often. All of the conversations from that channel are now blogged to http://proc.homeip.net/wordpress/ This is merely an experiment and if there are major objections to this process, this blog will be removed. Some of the salient features of this include automatic blogging using xmlrpc. The script does not have to reside on the webhost machine. It is extremely fast and very configurable. At this time, every peice of conversation from every user is blogged as a seperate entry with the topic of the entry as the username of […]

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Threaded comments hack for WordPress 1.2+

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May 9th, 2004
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I redid the threaded comments for WordPress 1.2 + Now the install is very simple and the threads are formatted a little better. There is a very small CSS bug where in Opera the lower threads get smaller in size. I have not had the time to fix it yet, if you come up with a solution, please post it and I will add it to the distribution. As always, please backup everything before installing this hack or any others. You can see it at work here: http://mindfulmusings.net/testwp You can download the zip file from here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/threaded.zip

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Blog Count crawler is online again

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May 6th, 2004
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Thanks to 2fargon the WordPress blog crawler and list is online again. You can find it all here. If your blog is not on that list, feel free to use the enclosed form to submit your own blog.

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Calling all XSLT Gurus

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May 6th, 2004
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Nick Bradbury is hoping to find a way to group RSS posts from various sources that all point to or reference the same story. In doing this he is asking for some help from any XSLT gurus out there. Take the FeedDemon XSLT Challenge. I for one would like to see the feature idea become a reality.…excerpt from: http://www.digital-web.com/new/2004_05_01_archive.shtml#108379186242035832

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Advertising on Blogs

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May 5th, 2004
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Cool Scripts, Weblog Add-Ons

I am not a big proponent of advertising on blogs, especially the big flashy ones which have moving pictures and other stupid animation. However, I have found that Google and a few other sites provide a very nice and hassle free text ad service that can generate a few bucks for the owner of the blog. As you can see on this blog, I use Google and am very happy with the results. I know that Amaxon has a similar service. I think a list of blog advertising services might help a user choose their poison. So here is list from my experience. If you know of any others that you use or would like to suggest, please leave a comment. – Google AdSense – BlogAds.com – TextAds.biz – BlogSnob – Amazon Ads

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XHTML syndication

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May 3rd, 2004
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Code, Cool Scripts, Weblog Add-Ons

I stumbled upon something yesterday that I thought could be really useful, at least to me. Many people have suggested and explored the idea of XHTML syndication. Some have come from big names such as Anil Dash and Tantek. However, there is very little implementation. If every blog/CMS could have its own link for a file that spits out formatted XHTML code, life would be easier. For example, if I wanted to provide a little feed of my weblogtoolscollection, I would simply include a file from that blog that would spit out pre-formatted, pre determined code. No messing with XML, no tags to worry about or feeds to validate and then parse. The div tags etc could be defined in simple, easy to understand terms and would allow simple CSS formatting as well. A couple of different methods could be used to generate and then serve the file. WordPress could […]

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