Stylish

Fri, 21 Jan 2005

If you tried to submit a comment a couple of hours ago, you probably noticed that the script formerly known as mt-comments.cgi was producing nice fat 500 server errors. Yup, that was me, tweaking (as ever) without having any clue what I was doing. Great learning experience, bad customer service. Bad Laurabelle. (Note to self: [...]

Informal poll: comments feed?

Fri, 21 Jan 2005

I'm considering creating a feed for comments but am not sure whether it is needed or desired, so I'm conducting an informal and thoroughly unscientific poll. Drop me an email or a comment if you have an opinion. Would you use a comments feed? Entries+comments together, or comments separately? How about feeds for comments on [...]

Experience, the best teacher

Fri, 21 Jan 2005

I did a lot of PHP and Perl hacking last night, modifying the PHP code I use to change stylesheets dynamically (so that I can use an external file to store the config data) and then writing some Perl code to duplicate the same functionality in my CGI scripts (mt-search.cgi and what used to be [...]