Blog updates
General March 10th, 2004
Recent PHP / mysql work at work has made me want to go back to the blog and add some of the features I’ve been missing. After a day or two of idle prototyping, I’ve got two new improvements.
The first automatically turns some words into links. So if I say miserable failure it automatically does the right thing. This is mainly for keywords I use a lot and want to be links (like TiVo) but am too lazy to type out a full URL each time. It also works well for friends names (Eric, Josh, Marc, etc.)
The second feature addition is trackbacks. I need to fix the way my add page sends trackback pings, but before I did that I wanted to fix my ping receiving side. I believe I’ve done that. My site should now properly handle a trackback ping. Now I just need to decide how to handle / display that data. My plan right now is to integrate comments in, and display trackbacks and comments the same way. I’ll probably go with the popup route that CK is using. We’ll see how quickly I get to that. (Andrew, I’ll try my trackback to you, but I bet it’ll fail - either because of my end, or your non-standard SSL stuff.)
Wheeeeee.
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