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Installing MovableType on Windows MovableType Installation. This is a good list of things to do, although at 2 AM, things get a bit blurry. Main things are to get Apache loaded, then ActivePerl, then to hook Perl up with Apache by editing httpd.confg. Instructions for Apache and Perl on Windows: Installing Apache. OK, on the…

boardom :: View topic – b2wap.php hack. Ok, a cool way to get the last set of posts from a b2 blog via a wap interface.

boardom :: View topic – [Request] People Who Are Not Logged In See Nothing. A good description from the author himself on how to get B2 to be private. Good for personal and family photos and news. Lots of different ways to do it. You could: Use .htaccess with apache Use the new filters command.…

Getting a local Apache server to work on XP I’m going to create a development server that mimics what is GeekFishing so here are some notes on how to make it all work similarly. This will also let me install things like the PHP DBG module that require major hacking that an ISP normally doesn’t…

Password protection This has come up several times. So, here’s quick tutorial. HTpassword generator. This is an all in one generator of htpassword which is a file you put in a web server to protect a particular directory. Creating .htpassword. This is how you create a file. Htpassword Line Generator. This is how you create…

PHP Editing and Debugging Freeware I’m tired of using wordpad and sticking in echo and print_r statements in PHP to figure out what is going on, so here is a search for a good debugging environment for PHP. I spent hours tonight trying to get the debugger to work. Let’s just say the freeware stuff…

MovableType Tips, Tricks and Traps Continuing the search for incredible tips on MovableType. There are an amazing number of things to wade through. In order of discovery, these are: MOvable Type External Resources. Where my search first started. There are some very nice hacks here mainly by Kevin Shay and Brad Choate and Adam Kalsey.…

PDA Your Movable Type Blog If you run a weblog using Movable Type, then you can easily make it available for PDA readers. It takes under 30 minutes to set it up. Wow, Movable Type sure is beautiful. The only thing really missing is mail2blog, but here is blog2avantgo2pda

Wiki, Wiki Wiki. Yet another strange technology for collaboration. Will it never end. This is some kind of content collaboration system. Earthweb on Blogs. A good article about how IT should handle blogs and what they might be good for.

Scoop || What is Scoop? Now that the search has begun, it is incredible how many blog and near-blog tools there are. There are photoblogs (see previous entry), there are bulletin board like things like PHP NUke and then there are things like scoop, which I’m just understanding… Scoop is a “collaborative media application”. It…

Photolog in MovableType FIVE STEP PHOTOLOG. Ah ha, this is how you do a photolog using MovableType. It is amazing how clever people can be. You basically overload the fields in MovableType so that the main image is in the main entry, description is in additional entry and the Thumbnail goes into the Excerpt. This…

Web Services are real OK, I admit it, I don’t understand the gigantic .net initiative at all, but I do get it when certain sites really do begin to act like services I can call. Here are a few: Google Web APIs – Home. This is very cool, you can programmatically call Google via an…

Movable Type Installation Help. These are great instructions for how to turn blog templates (called blogplates) into MovableType compatible layouts. You can find these kind of layouts at Blogplates or from Miz Graphics

Blog Templates Ludwig has given me the mission to become an expert of MovableType. There is alot to learn. I’ve through a.lifeuncommon.org which is probalby the most well designed site I’ve seen in a long time and stumbled onto these blog template sites: Miz Graphics!. A general purpose site for templates. . This is a…

MSN Hotmail – Message AT&T Broadband is an amazing company. They cut off my service two weeks ago when they silently updated their system. Had to spend a couple of hours figuring it out, then a journey to their service center in north Seattle. Told me I should have gotten something in the mail. Now…

Rain Tire Recommendations From the Roadbikerider.com web site, some more winter tires to look at HEY UNCLE AL: I’ve decided to start criterium racing a little early in the season. I live in California, so the weather is usually just wet, not icy or snowy. I’d like a recommendation for a tire that would have…

Bicycle Tires Updated Here’s an update from the bike tire explorations: TUFO | Product Line. Saw this first on Sdeals. This is a tubular tire that fits on a clincher rim. Interesting idea. Weighs 335 grams but this includes the tube, so it compares with say 180 grams for a Veloflex Pave plus 70 grams…

PHP password protection Here is something that Michelle has asked for. When I convert Tongfamily.com over, I’m going to add this as well. By adding one line to each page, you get password protection. Cookie Password Protection in PHP. This is freeware for the simple case, but costs $20 otherwise. List of password protection scripts.…

Mailing List Servers Another thing I’ve been looking for are mailing list servers. Right now I’m using Arrow from Jadebox which is Windows based, but does require you have your client up and running all the time. This is limited to 50 users I’m going to try EZMLM – Easy Mailing List Manager which is…

Photo Gallery and Digital Photo Management Here is the final project, finding a good photo gallery and digital photo management system. There are web based ones like PhotoWorks, but I’ve found them to be super slow or cumbersome. So, I’ll start collecting a list of hacker ones. Here’s a start: alexking.org

PHP Bulletin Boards Now that the blog project is well on its way with the next steps being to get four other sites up and running and to try movabletype on tongfamily.com. The next step is to understand bulletin board software that’s out there and then album and photo archiving. Here are a quick list…

InternetSeer Web Site Monitoring Service. This is the number one hit on Google for doing site monitoring. Right now it is hitting the b2 blog mail monitoring url every hour to get email into the blog at Geek Fishing

boardom :: View Forum – Site showcase. OK, now I’m in the middle of posting my brand new b2 hack on the bulletin board. A proud day. I have to figure out how to package it so that you can all download it though.

PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client. Oops that last listing was for a Unix-only client, here is the top Windows version from Google.

OpenSSH. This is the replacement for telnet. It is amazing how many old Unix utilities like ftp and telnet are still being used. Heck, I learned how to use it in 1975 when I was a teenager. I guess that dates me. At least, some things aren’t obsolete. I’m switching to ssh since it is…

APD |. It is pretty frustrating to be writing PHP without a debugger. Here’s one that some folks pointed out. I tried another debugger a while back and it was terrible. APD is the Advanced PHP Debugger. It was written to provide strace/truss capability for profiling and debugging php code, as well as providing the…

PHP_CodeDoc – Class: Mail. Wowk, this is a super useful site, they go into every routine that is built with PEAR and document what they are doing since the code itself isn’t documented. Very useful.

ALT-PHP-FAQ – How can I set the include path and other settings that are fixed in php.ini without having access to php.ini?. The include paths on tqhosting are busted, so here is a way to change it if I can access .htaccess or maybe I’ll ask mark@tqhosting.com

PEAR :: Manual: Mail_RFC822. Eureka, I discovered that I had just forgotten the declaration that asks for the right file that is require_once ‘Mail.php’ That’s is. Then you can use the method Mail::parserecipients(“strong”) to get the list. Wow, amazing how i figured this out just when I went to bed. The problem is that code…

SecuriTeam.com ? (Weak MySQL Default Configuration). Ah one last thing is the security on mysql. By default it has a root login with no password. The e-php changes this, so you have to switch it back by editing the config.inc.php file. See the link above.