I finally upgraded blosxom to 2.0, which has been available for a few months now. I upgraded Tatsuhiko Miyagawa’s ping_weblogs_com_xmlrpc to v0.06 (after fixing a minor bug), and I installed two new plugins: entriescache_purple and Rob Hague’s cooluri. (BJ) entriescache_purple (BK) entriescache_purple is a slightly modified version of Fletcher Penney’s entriescache plugin (v0.61). […]
Searching for: purple
Response to Marc Canter
I meet a lot of interesting people in this business, but a few stand out more than others. Anyone who’s met Marc Canter knows what I’m talking about. Marc is a big, boisterous fellow, mostly good-natured, and very outspoken. The guy is sharp and passionate, and has a proven track record of getting things done […]
Revising Blog Entries
Ross Mayfield observes that, when there are sudden news events, bloggers continually revise the same post rather than make new post after new post. He notes that this is very Wiki-like behavior and is not how blogs are supposed to be used, citing Dave Winer’s essay, “What Makes a Weblog A Weblog?”. (7U) This […]
OHS Launch Community: Experimenting with Ontologies
My review of The Semantic Web resulted in some very interesting comments. In particular, Danny Ayers challenged my point about focusing on human-understandable ontologies rather than machine-understandable ones: (5D) But…”I think it would be significantly cheaper and more valuable to develop better ways of expressing human-understandable ontologies”. I agree with your underlying point here, […]
A Unit Test Success Story
I spent the past few days closing out PurpleWiki bugs in preparation for our impending v0.9 release. And once again, unit tests saved my butt. (3I) Automated unit tests are like programming with a net. You invest a little bit of time up-front writing the test, and then you save a ton of time […]