January 14, 2005

Fighting comment spam

Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If...

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Posted by jarle at 12:19 AM
January 13, 2005

Friendly URLs in Movable Type

Arve has written a very nice tutorial covering how to set up Movable Type to use search engine and user friendly url's. Not only does he show how to set up Movable Type so you can customise the url's yourself,...

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Posted by jarle at 11:58 PM
April 18, 2004

Windows client for MovableType and more

Ecto is a pretty cool new tool for MovableType, Blogger, Typepad and Windows users (Uses XML-RPC so it should be possible to use it with any blog system utilizing XML-RPC), at the moment it is in pre 1.0 beta, and...

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Posted by jarle at 09:34 PM | Comments (4)
January 21, 2004

How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines

Nice article with many good tips from fellow norwegian blogger Anders Jacobsen: Optimizing Movable Type - Keyword links While it will be interesting to see if the keywords will help making the search engines find blog entries, his tip will...

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May 02, 2003

SharpMT - Offline windows editor for MT

This looks like a very interesting project. Randy Rants's SharpMT is a Windows offline editor for MovableType. It is using XML-RPC to post to MovableType, and is quite handy if you aren't always online, but still want the ability to...

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Posted by jarle at 12:46 AM
April 24, 2003

MovableType creators create Blogger competitor

This is news that has had many a blogger buzzing the last few days. Six Apart (Ben Trott and Mena Trott), the creators of MovableType, announced TypePad - a service that are likely to rival Google owned Blogger. The promises...

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Posted by jarle at 11:29 PM | Comments (1)
March 07, 2003

MTCodeBeautifier - ActionScript highlight plug-in for MovableType

Here is a cool plug-in for MovableType, it is sure to become very useful considering how many Flashers are using MovableType today. (Not to mention all the Perl and PHP programmers using it): MTCodeBeautifier - MovableType Syntax Highlighting Plug-in It...

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Posted by jarle at 11:10 AM | Comments (2)
February 26, 2003

So whats so cool about Trackback?

I am sorry for not taking the time to explain about Trackback in my previous posting. Fernando has already raised the question - "explain to me a good use of the trackback feature?" TrackBack (manual) enables weblogs to ping each-other,...

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Posted by jarle at 09:45 AM | Comments (8)
February 25, 2003

Having fun with MovableType

Having lots of fun with MovableType today, I have updated to the latest version (2.63) and moved my entries into MySQL - Should allow me to have some fun with statistics (expect some charts), and with extracting information easier than...

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Posted by jarle at 11:58 PM | Comments (2)
June 05, 2002

MovableType Warning (or what happens when you don't read the manual)

I wasn't sure if I wanted to run this by you all, but if you are a MovableType user, and haven't read the install notes, then shame on you, and please make sure to fix this "security problem". If you...

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Posted by jarle at 07:41 PM
May 20, 2002

Nice Movable Type hacks

Scott Andrew is a guy that always has lots of interesting knowledge to share about Flash, XML, JavaScript, DHTML etc. And he is also using Movable Type for his weblog. I just discovered that he has put together a few...

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Posted by jarle at 03:20 AM
March 23, 2002

Moveable Type 2.0

Version 2.0 of Moveable Type has been released. New features: Multiple category support: the ability to assign multiple categories per entry Multi-language date formatting: format your dates in 9 different languages Thumbnail creation: automatically create thumbnails from uploaded images Multiple...

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Posted by jarle at 06:20 AM