Articles Tagged with "Blogging"

09/01/2008: NetNewsWire is now free!

FeedDemon too!

13/08/2007: Fake Steve is Dead; Long Live Fake Bob!

Now that fake Steve has been outed, I’m sure everyone is looking for the next fake blog.

Well… Fake Bob Keefe

(Who is Bob Keefe ?)

29/07/2007: demiblog 0.2.2 Released

I don’t normally announce point-releases of demiblog, but I felt that demiblog 0.2.2 was worth an announcement because:

It’s the first version of demiblog to be released under version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence.
It has a few more (albeit fairly week) anti-spam features.
Better metadata is now provided on HTML pages.

It’s available in the subversion repository.

28/06/2007: demiblog 0.2.0 Released

demiblog 0.2.0 is now ready for public consumption. Although I do use it on my own website, I still wouldn’t recommend it for use on live, production sites. It’s good for playing with though.

The big new feature is support for MySQL 5 as a backend database — worry ye not, as PostgreSQL is still supported (and recommended)! Also new is official support for Mac OS X as a server platform — I recommend using MAMP for a fully integrated Mac server solution. It still supports Linux of course, which will continue to be the primary target platform. (Windows support is planned too.)

Moving on to the front end, photos and photoblogging are now partly supported. It is possible to designate particular tags as “galleries”. When these tags are viewed, a thumbnail will be displayed for each article instead of a summary. There is also preliminary support for calendars. Again, a calendar is just a special form of tag. Each event is a special type of article. Thus an event can exist in multiple…

27/06/2007: Long-Awaited Zeldman Article

Jeffrey Zeldman has posted a long-awaited article on the problem of ‘maybe’ options on forms. So long awaited indeed that many of the comments are dated over 37 years ago.

01/05/2007: demiblog 0.1.0 Released!

I’ve been working on it all evening, putting on the finishing touches, and finally demiblog 0.1.0 is ready for the world. I wouldn’t recommend it for use on live, production sites at the moment (although I have been using it here for nearly 4 weeks).

Features:

Supported backend databases: PostgreSQL 8.x. (PostgreSQL 7.x may also work, but has not been tested.)
Content may be published in HTML 4, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 or HTML 1.1, with experimental support for ISO HTML, HTML 5 and XHTML 2.
Normal pages of content (Articles).
Blog entries (BlogArticles).
Yearly, monthly and daily archives of BlogArticles.
Categorisation (Tags) of Articles and BlogArticles.
Visitor comments (Comments) on Articles and BlogArticles.
User signups visitors can sign up to the website for various extra features. (Though these extra features dont exist yet!)
Feeds provided in RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0 (RDF), RSS 2.0, Atom, iCalendar, hCalendar (HTML), Text (CSV), JSON and PHP Serialised Object formats.
Feeds of…

29/04/2007: Keen on Web 2.0

The Observer has an interesting article about Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. Although the book isn’t released until early June, according to the Observer article the basic premise is that:

bloggers and other evangelists for the web [are] destroying culture, ruining livelihoods and threatening to make consumers of new media regress into ‘digital narcissism’.

He points out that most of what you see on MySpace, YouTube and other such social networking sites is utterly banal; the information you read on Wikipedia has often not been edited by experts; and a disproportionate amount of information can be found on Pamela Anderson, compared with,…

16/04/2007: BoJo on MySpace

The BBC on Politicians with MySpace pages:

In the UK, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has registered on MySpace — and has an unofficial fan club page, “Proud to be a Minger”, with 161 members.

Meanwhile, the Boris Johnson Appreciation Society, which recognises the shadow higher education minister as “the vital free agent of British politics”, has stacked up a very respectable 7,751 members.

10/04/2007: THIS IS TRUE

PLEASE DON’T READ THIS.
In 1876, a young girl named Jenn was walking down a river, an insane man killed her by stabbing her in the back, raping her, and then hanging her in his closet. Then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: “I wasnt pretty enough”. Now that you have read this message, she will come to your house on a full moon and steal your soul unless you follow these directions: Paste this message into 3 comments and press ALT F4 and your crushes name will appear on the screen!!! its soo wierd

More insane ramblings here:

08/04/2007: Hurrah! A Blog for Toby!

At last, my new CMS is at a stage when I’m able to actually start publishing with it. Now that I have an easy-ish tool to publish with, you can expect that this website will be updated more frequently and with more and better content.

Updating this website in the past has been a major pain. I took a look at installing an off-the-shelf blogging engine to help me run the site, and after much research decided that Wordpress was the best of breed. After two days playing with it, I abandoned it — it didn’t do everything I wanted out of a blogging engine, and the mess of PHP code would have made modifications to Wordpress painful.

And so in early 2006, I decided to embark upon my own blogging engine. I posted my initial ideas to Usenet in February 2006 and asked for feedback. I got a few useful suggestions and started development later that month, calling the project…