fletcherpenney.net http://fletcherpenney.net/ en Copyright 2008 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:19:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Blosxom Plugins I used to use the blosxom weblog package to maintain my website, but over time I grew tired of it, and wanted something a little different. Additionally, I was having trouble with comment spam and wanted a way to let visitors help me police the spam. I decided on a wiki, and began using Oddmuse.

I am not actively maintaining my blosxom software any more, and was recently contacted by some developers who are. My plugins are now being hosted by the sourceforge development effort. Hopefully everything will get moved over and be more accessible and more up-to-date.

In any case, for now you can still access most of my blosxom software at my old site:

http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/BlosxomPlugins

Here is a list of the plugins I have released to the public:

  • Antispam Plugin
  • Autolink Plugin
  • Blacklist Plugin
  • Blosxcss Plugin
  • Blosxom Anacron Plugin
  • BlosxomDebug
  • Emptymessage Plugin
  • EntriesCache Plugin
  • Find Plugin
  • Hide Plugin
  • Iconset Plugin
  • Imagegallery Plugin
  • Karma Plugin
  • Login Plugin
  • Menu Plugin
  • Recentwritebacks Plugin
  • Redirect Plugin
  • RelatedFiles Plugin
  • Seewritebacks Plugin
  • Writebackplus Plugin
  • Zlocaldepth Plugin
]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/10/blosxom_plugins http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/10/blosxom_plugins Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:19:49 -0500 Movable Type Tips Here are some of the tricks I have figured out so far with Movable Type:

  1. I needed to set the group id bit on the cgi scripts so they could write to the directories. This may or may not be a security issue.

  2. http://www.library.yale.edu/wsg/docs/permissions/sgid.htm

  3. I had to use /mt-static (no trailing slash) to identify where the mt-static directory would be.

  4. I need to figure out exactly how to lock things down with htaccess for better security.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/10/movable_type_tips http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/10/movable_type_tips Movable Type tech tips web Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:10 -0500 My OddMuse Modules Oddmuse is a perl-based wiki program, derived from UseModWiki.

I have written several modules for Oddmuse. Rather than duplicating effort at maintaining pages, those modules are now described solely at the Oddmuse site:

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/09/my_oddmuse_modules http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/09/my_oddmuse_modules OddMuse Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:26:21 -0500 Medicine and the iPhone When Apple announced the iPhone SDK, we knew that Epocrates Rx was coming. Strangely, it took forever for some of the obvious other medical utilities to appear….

For those who don’t know, in my “other life” I am an academic hospitalist. Having appropriate medical utilities on my iPhone is quite a boon - no more carrying my palm pilot AND cell phone around…

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/medicine_and_the_iphone http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/medicine_and_the_iphone iPhone medicine Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:37:15 -0500 My Comments on iPhone Applications This is just a collection of random thoughts about various iPhone applications….

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/my_comments_on_iphone_applicat http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/my_comments_on_iphone_applicat iPhone Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:34:47 -0500 My Most Used iPhone Applications There have been a flood of iPhone applications since the App Store opened. Some of these applications are useful and well designed, and some are utter crap. I’ve bought a few that I shouldn’t have, and I’m sure there are some gems I have not discovered.

This will be where I track which applications I am using the most (subjectively), and leave comments about some of them.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/my_most_used_iphone_applicatio http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/my_most_used_iphone_applicatio iPhone Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:33:24 -0500 New RSS and Atom feed URL's For anyone who watches this site regularly, you will want to update your syndication URL’s for the new setup. The old ones weren’t great, but with the new configuration, they’re broken.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/new_rss_and_atom_feed_urls http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/new_rss_and_atom_feed_urls hosting Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:56:06 -0500 I think I have this site working with Internet Explorer Getting a real website to work with Internet Explorer, without resorting to endless tricks and workarounds is a real pain in the ass. Someone needs to just delete all the source code for that program so that we can just move one…

However, that seems unlikely to happen any time soon, unfortunately.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/i_think_i_have_this_site_worki http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/i_think_i_have_this_site_worki hosting tips web Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:38:08 -0500 Excellent commentary on Diebold voting machines and McAfee antivirus from xkcd.com

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/excellent_commentary_on_diebol http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/excellent_commentary_on_diebol humor tech Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:25:36 -0500 Another thing I like about Movable Type After getting MultiMarkdown and SmartyPants to play nice, I realized that all of my old pages and entries were formatted to use either MultiMarkdown or Markdown and SmartyPants, depending on which features were more important. I did not relish the idea of changing them all manually.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/another_thing_i_like_about_mov http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/another_thing_i_like_about_mov Movable Type tips web Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:13:44 -0500 Now MultiMarkdown and SmartyPants seem to work together I’m not sure what happened, but I once agained copied the perl scripts from my home installation to my web host installation of Movable Type. I swear I had done that before….

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/now_multimarkdown_and_smartypa http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/now_multimarkdown_and_smartypa Movable Type MultiMarkdown web Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:36:11 -0500 I am now my own OpenID server I finally got the OpenID server for Movable Type working. This means that I can switch my OpenID that is linked to my web site from a 3rd party. I had previously used myOpenID as the provider, but I wanted to run it myself if I could.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/i_am_now_my_own_openid_server http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/i_am_now_my_own_openid_server Movable Type OpenID web Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:32:04 -0500 Comments and XHTML 1.1 now play nicely It took a bunch of playing around, but I finally got things working (I think) so that I can have both MathML and comments.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/comments_and_xhtml_11_now_play http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/comments_and_xhtml_11_now_play MathML Movable Type tips web Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:30:53 -0500 XHTML 1.1 and comments not compatible In enabling MathML via converting the site to XHTML 1.1 compliance, I appear to have broken the comments system. I need to dig into this further, so the site is back to being served as text/html, and MathML doesn’t work for the moment.

More to come.

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/xhtml_11_and_comments_not_comp http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/xhtml_11_and_comments_not_comp Movable Type web Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:27:48 -0500 Interesting Books Some books I have read that were interesting. In general, I will leave out most medical stuff and fiction. I’ll try and focus on books that are applicable to different aspects of life, science, and business…

]]> http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/interesting_books http://fletcherpenney.net/2008/08/interesting_books art books Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:39:00 -0500