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| Upgraded Joomsayer and Hyphenation for Movable Type |
| 2008-06-26 06:14:19 |
Joomsayer and Hyphenation for Movable Type are now both released in version 1.0. Sociotags and Curvaceous are both released in version 1.01.The previous version of Joomsayer contained a bug that appears to break functionality of either Joomsayer or (worse) other plug-ins in MT 4.2 RC2. There is no formal bug fix; however, the bug is believed to be caused by a dependency that has been completely removed in version 1.0, and the defect is currently not reproducible.Perhaps the most important new feature in Joomsayer is that you no longer need to rely on a hardcoded HTML block; it is now completely configurable in your plug-in preferences.Also, the screendump showing the customized Joomsayer quotation box with white background, dropshadow, rounded corners, and blue quotation characters is avai...
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| First major release of Sociotags |
| 2008-06-15 09:51:23 |
The Sociotags
plug-in for Movable Type has been updated with some new social networks, some of them more significant than others. The plug-in is now considered mature enough to warrant a version bump to version 1.0. Get Sociotags for Movable Type here....
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| Hyphenation for MT4 Updated |
| 2008-06-14 14:34:10 |
Hyphenation for Movable Type was barely released before all but one of the planned features had been added to the alpha code.The new beta, which is out today, now features a dictionary installer that enables you to simply upload your OpenOffice dictonaries without doing anything to them, and you have the option to specify different dictionaries throughout your entries....
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| Movable Type Plugin: Hyphenation |
| 2008-06-12 12:50:10 |
Hyphenation for Movable Type is a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that provides automatic hyphenation of your text based on OpenOffice hyphenation dictionaries.Automatic hyphenation is very useful if you often use left-aligned or right-aligned images with text flowing along the side of the image in a narrow column. With Firefox 3, hyphenation is now displayed on all major browsers.The screenshot below is an actual example of Hyphenation for Movable Type in action:Once installed and properly configured, the plug-in provides automatic hyphenation of your entry text.RequirementsMovable Type 4
A downloaded OpenOffice hyphenation dictionary file.InstallationDownload Hyphenation for Movable Type, and extract the archive file.Upload the contents of the archive to the "plugins" folder in your Movable Type installation. (There should now be a directory called "Hyphenation" in the plugins directory.)Download your preferred OpenOffice hyphenation dictionary from the OpenOffice localization web site an...
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| Movable Type Plugin: Curvaceous |
| 2008-06-05 01:30:40 |
Curvaceous is a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that causes text to flow smoothly around the edges of irregularly shaped images, as shown in the actual screenshot below:Once installed, the plug-in works in the background, converting any images that are either left-aligned or right-aligned.RequirementsMovable Type 4
Image::Magick (you probably have it, but please consult your web hosting service)InstallationDownload curvaceous-0.1.tar.gz for Movable Type, and extract the archive file.Upload the contents of the archive to the "plugins" folder in your Movable Type installation. (There should now be a directory called "Curvaceous" in the plugins directory.)Go to Preferences -> Plugins for each of the blogs where you want to enable Curvaceous.Check the "Enable" box, and click "Save Changes." (You should seriously consider not selecting "all" as the build method.)
For each template for which you plan to use Curvaceous, add the following line between the <head> and </head> tags...
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| Movable Type Plugin: Joomsayer Updated for MT 4.1 |
| 2008-06-02 03:12:57 |
The Joomsayer Movable Type plug-in has (finally!) been updated to version 0.2, which should work with Movable Type v. 4.1. The new version no longer relies on modifying the entry while editing, and instead makes the necessary modifications at the time the entries are published.The style sheets and Javascript are unchanged, but you'll need to add a tag modifier. Please refer to the installation and upgrade instructions....
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| OPML Template for Movable Type 4.1 |
| 2008-03-08 07:22:33 |
I'll confess that I haven't found much use for an OPML feed yet for a blog, but some geeks might insist that if it can be done, then it should be done.The following template is an example of how to create an OPML feed for your Movable Type 4.1 blog that traverses through the categories and subcategories, listing the entries within each:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<$MTPublishCharset$>"?>
<opml version="1.1">
<head>
<title><$MTBlogName remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></title>
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<ownerName><$MTEntryAuthorDisplayName encode_xml="1"$></ownerName>
<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryAuthorEmail"> <ownerEmail><$MTEntryAuthorEmail encode_xml="1"$></ownerEmail> </MTIfNonEmpty>
<dateModified><$MTEntryModifiedDate format_name="rfc822"$></dateModified>
</MTEntries></head>
<body>
<MTTopLevelCategories>
<MTIfNonZero tag="MTCategoryCoun...
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| A Tribute to the Devil |
| 2008-02-26 11:26:14 |
Science has a reasonable understanding of matter and how the strong, the weak, and the electromagnetic forces and (at least for practical purposes) gravity affect it. We also have a firm grasp on an large array of other natural laws and principles.But none of the forces or laws indicate that, from a human point of view, there is a constant evolution and change in our universe. They only describe change within so limited scopes that one cannot express connections between cause on the microscopic level and effect on the macroscopic level, or vice versa.The laws of nature do not state anything about the development of life; although we do understand how DNA replicates, how organisms reproduce and mutate, how organisms adapt and survive according to changing environments, and how they in turn ...
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| How to Easily Configure a Microsoft Product |
| 2008-02-25 03:46:18 |
I think now understand how to configure Microsoft's products in such a way that they appeal to me intuitively.Now, in the world of user interfaces, "intuitively" simply means that applications do what you're used to. In that sense, I suppose the only intuitively correct behavior among Microsoft applications would be frequent crashes, mangling of your documents, incorrect calculations in your spreadsheets, file conversion problems after service upgrades, intelligent help systems provided your IQ matches your room temperature, and so on. I suppose that in that sense I don't have to change anything.However, I'm a Linux user at home, and while Linux applications often have their shortcomings that can often be traced to a nerdish lack of attention to the fact that non-programmers might use the ...
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