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After some hair-pulling, I now have 4.3.0 up and running, and phpMyAdmin seems satisfied again. But now it’s almost midnight, and I don’t want to code anymore, so there

I suddenly get a creative rush and want to code something that I promised someone I was going to write over the holidays, and suddenly, phpMyAdmin on the server has stopped working. I get the frameset, but only two empty frames.
Let’s see if upgrading to PHP 4.3.0 helps…

So need your love, so fuck you all

I’m not scared of dying
I just don’t want to

Robbie Williams – Come Undone

Raelian group claims birth of first human clone

Since I am using Anders’ tips for archiving MovableType with my german language blog, I noticed a small flaw in the dirify directive. If there are any umlauts in the title, they get simply discarded, leaving behind rather mutilated looking filenames.
Since that can’t be good for the Googlejuice, I have added a new function, convert_umlauts, that changes them to their ASCII equivalents.
If anybody is interested, here’s the patch

Just picked up a package at the post office on my way home. Finally, the book has arrived!
It is even autographed by the two amazing authors, who I had the great fortune to meet in person last year during my visit to Toronto.
I really have to get back there ASAP. I miss those crazy canadians, eh!

Well, at least the proper date and time formats. This really small patch adds the necessary entries to the %Languages hash, so that the %x and %X formats work like expected. Well, at least as I expect it.

I’ve been wondering, what other types of content could benefit from the TrackBack System, besides weblogs? And what are requirements to use TrackBack?
As far as I understand it, the minimum you need is a stable URL that you can use as a key. So, almost any system that has individual pages for its content could be retrofitted.
Looking at some projects at work, I did find two projects that could easily have TrackBack grafted on. But what would be the benefit? The selling point? I’m a coder, so I’d do it for the sheer hack value, but these things have to sold to bean counters and suits, and they don’t take “Because it’s there” as an answer.

As I wrote in my last entry, I changed the way my MT archives individual posts to be more Google-friendly. But since I did not want to have the old 000001.html-style files around and did not want to wait until my site gets reindexed, I delved into the mod_rewrite documentation and came up with a way to achieve this redirection.
Continue reading…

After reading about Anders Jacobsens MT installation and his subsequent articles on optimizing MovableType, I implemented most of his suggestions about how to set up the archives too be search engine friendly.
I also converted from Berkley DB to MySQL, so that I could use Eliot Landrums MT-RefSearch
The next step will be implementing all those other improvements, like related entry links, proper RSS feeds, etc.