Kitten’s Project Blog >> Comment Pay 1.0: Brainstorming can be really useful. I had come up with this idea a couple of weeks ago and had discussed it with Kitten at length. She has put together a preliminary plugin for WordPress which enables you to ask for payment for comments which are deemed as spam. In case the spammers decide to pay, the comments are posted. I have not looked at the details yet, but any method of accepting payments can be used and this will be an interesting experiment. We also have other plans to further this service, but more about that later. Good and fast job Kitten!

Dvorak was assailed by Joi and Anil on his comparison of WP and MT. Anil, via Joi made some comments which I would like to write about. I had written up an extensive refute to all of the points that Anil makes in his email. However, I have decided to refrain from making that writeup public in order to pour some water on the wildfire and extend an olive branch. Before I cluck chicken, I would like to state for everyone, the reasons behind my predisposition. My awareness of the problems facing the competing groups in the blogging world was further raised by a very well meaning person. I would like to share some of the thoughts. There are enough blogs and bloggers for all of the groups to coexist happily. There IS enough room for everyone to thrive and be successful. Infighting among the ranks will make the medium […]

Form Bookmarklets: Some very useful such as the bookmarklet to show hidden form fields which can be edited and others are sinister such as the password field exposer. Oh, and while you are at it, check out the blogidate XHTML 1.1 Stric bookmarklet that lets you validate your XHTML in the textareas. Extremely nifty!

GoogleFight: Result for the fight between wordpress and movable type – Getting there.

For some reason, many think that in order to style a WordPress weblog, you need to know PHP. You don’t. Or people are confused by CSS and end up using html and tables to create effects that can otherwise be achieved just by using the default tags that are in a WordPress install. So in that vein, I created a default WP weblog, and altered nothing except the layout css. It’s not meant to show off any design skills, or to get any awards for ‘best use of colour’, but hopefully it will let you see just how much control you have already without the need to alter anything else. It is basic stuff – another blog with more advanced techniques soon I hope – but if you have a have a WordPress weblog, hopefully it will start to inspire you when looking to alter your design in some way. […]

zonageek: software: TypeMover: TypeMover is a MovableType plugin. It adds backup, restore and migration features that let you get your data in and out of your servers. Powerful backup is your friend!

Netcraft: Web Server Survey Archives: Comparison of web server product permeation. No revelation, just interesting. via Dvorak

alexking.org: Photos4.1rc3 released: It is a web based application for managing (storing, cataloging and retrieving) digital photos. Changes in this release include bugfixes, more translations etc.