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How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks

coda — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:27:56 +0000

I was ranting about Blogger's permalink URIs a while ago. Relating to that, I just picked up on this post: 'How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks' over at mpt, which in turn is inspired by Julian Missig. But as always, nobody says is better than the Mozilla UI man himself. Worth reading if by a small chance this kind of thing interests you. If that doesn't, this most certainly will.

Update your virus definitions: W32.Blaster.Worm has arrived.

Phlogger

coda — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 03:33:24 +0000

I thought the other night, it would be a nice challenge to clean up the code behind the weblog parts of my site, write a basic install script, and publish it all as a PHP blogging tool. I even came up with a name, albeit pretty weak: Phlogger (which as it turns out, is already taken).

I have, however, plenty of other personal projects I would rather start and finish before even considering taking it further. As you may have noticed, digicam.coza has undergone some (unfinished) major reconstructive surgery to bring it in line with this site.

On the topic of blogs, and having just visited two blogger-powered sites (namely taminthecity & rockit), there are two things that annoy me about blogger:
1. The archive/permalink naming convention: for example, wtf is the reasoning behind giving an anchor link the href of "/2003_06_01_archive.php#105463923212601364" !?
2. Popup windows aren't named exclusively: for example, visiting Tam's site, I clicked on a link to comment, but this page loaded in the same popup window in which I was still busy writing a comment for Nat's site.

And on that note, and having taken to heart Warrenski's feedback, I'll be making an effort to sound less condescending in future posts. ;]

coda.coza updates

coda — Tue, 27 May 2003 19:26:31 +0000

If you mouse over the "coda.coza" text at the very top of this site, you'll see some introductory text and a crap profile photo. Shouldn't be any compatibility issues with modern browsers, but if it does happen to play around in your particular setup I would like to know.
UPDATE: If it gives problems, try emptying your cache and try again. The switch now happens for 5 seconds, giving you time to click on the links

Also, I have fixed my words and links pages - links are now broken up into their categories and span different pages, which you can access directly if you know the category name, for example:
/links/friends or /links/inspiring_brilliance, etc.

The same principle (see Cool URIs don't change) applies to my words, and my feeble attempt at a search. And since, according to JK's 4 year-old observation, "the URL will continue to be part of the web UI for several more years" (no shit), I now have short, easy-to-type URLs that visualize my site structure, are hackable (in a good way), contain no file extensions, and are persistent (they won't change).