It’s shocking how bad the Windows Mobile browser is. Not only has it taken vast amounts of time waiting for pages to load, I’m not entirely certain I’m entering this in the correct part of the WordPress interface. Regardless of whether or not the post even appears, I won’t be able to read it, because [...]
Or at least with more consistency. I’m firing up the old blog again after leaving it fallow for a couple of years. I’m finding I miss committing thought to text, tossing ideas out into the ether for people to see. Or not. It matters little to me whether or not I have a huge following; [...]
Fortunately, my Web space provider (Dreamhost) has the lovely phpMyAdmin interface enabled, so I was able to just run a big old SQL update to change everything to use the Textile 2 formatter instead of Textile 1:
UPDATE mt_entry
SET entry_convert_breaks="textile_2"
WHERE entry_convert_breaks="textile_1"
A simple rebuild in Movable Type, and it’s all better now.
MT-Textile 2 is incredibly cool, but it does require that you’re not an idiot when you install it. I deleted the older textile.pl module when I installed the new MT-Textile, relying on the new textile2.pl to do the right thing. It hadn’t occurred to me that the formatting assigned to a particular blog entry is [...]
And has been for almost a month, but my blogging volume has been rather low lately. This long-awaited update to MT-Textile, created by Movable Type plugin wiz Brad Choate, includes far more features than are probably healthy for a “humane web text generator.”
MT-Textile 2 is so chock-full of formatting goodness that I may never use [...]
Blogging for Nerds is a thoughtful article about why blogging should be interesting to hardcore techies, not just the vast number of regular folks who use blogs to comment on the trials and tribulations of their pets. Yes, the signal to noise ratio of blogs is astoundingly low, but given how good computers are at [...]
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