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. 
Teaching MovableType German
Posted by alex
on December 16, 2002
TrackBack for non-weblog content? 2
Posted by alex
on December 16, 2002
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.
Switching from flat to Google-friendly archive URLs 5
Posted by alex
on December 14, 2002
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.
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