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ecto for Windows (alternate title: Windows install dependencies suck)
About a year and a half ago (in what seems like another life now), I wrote about my first (good) impressions using ecto for OS X. It was a different job, a different blog platform (Movable Type), and a different OS. Now that I’m doing Windows again at work (still OS X at [...]
Want Akismet? Then download Flock. Huh?
(Note on 11/10/05: getting the API key was mildly painful, but Akismet is doing an EXCELLENT job of catching spam. I have zero problems now — it was well worth it!)
I ran across a mention of Akismet, the WordPress spam blocker, on the BusinessWeek blog and since I’ve been seeing a bit more spam [...]
After the ping: how long it takes for blog search engines to find you
I’m launching a new blog with a specific focus very soon (more on that in a day or two). Since you only launch a new blog once, I decided to check my logs to see how long it took for various blog-specific search engines to find me after a ping to Ping-o-matic (and there’s [...]
Warning Bloglines subscribers: some feed changes
Now that I’ve written about the wrong way to work with your feeds if you use FeedBurner and have Bloglines subscribers, I decided to make another go at doing it right today.
First, this only affects about 25 subscribers — those who are subscribed to my “orphan” (i.e. non-FeedBurner) feeds in Bloglines. The [...]
Hard lessons learned with Feedburner and Bloglines
For about a week, updates to the blog using my Feedburner feed were not available for reasons I feel compelled to explain in full, if only so similarly afflicted users don’t make the same dumb mistakes I did. In a nutshell, I unwittingly blew away my Bloglines readership for about a week through [...]