Archive for January, 2004

Using MT’s bookmarklet feature..

Friday, January 23rd, 2004
I have a link on my favorites toolbar now that takes whatever site I’m looking at and creates a new Tech Tok posting with the info in it (page name, URL). Here’s what the MT doc says about them:

Setting up a bookmarklet to post to Movable Type allows you to perform one-click posting and publishing without ever entering through the main Movable Type interface.

Movable Type’s bookmarklet structure allows you to customize the layout and fields on your bookmarklet page. For example, you may wish to add the ability to add excerpts through the bookmarklet window. By default, a bookmarklet window will always have: a pulldown menu for the weblog to post to; a pulldown menu to select the Post Status (Draft or Publish) of the new entry; a text entry box for the Title of the entry; and a text entry box for the entry body.

I’ll be using it to post here more frequently I think.

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Parse RSS Feeds in PHP

Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser looks like a useful little utility. I’m using a combination of Perl scripts (my own customized ones and some I’ve downloaded) to generate the pages on news.tnir.org, but this may be useful.

I’ll probably have to keep my own customized scripts around, though. They are more tolerant of wonky RSS feeds (plain text of full HTML for instance).

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iTunes RSS Feeds

Friday, January 23rd, 2004
iTunes Music Store RSS Generator is an excellent little tool you can use to spruce up your own home page.

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How to set up LDAP to share Address Book entries on Mac OS X Server

Friday, January 23rd, 2004
macosxhints - Creating LDAP address book entries to share is a useful little article that talks about LDAP and how to set it up for use on Mac clients in their Address Book.

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