Category Archives: Software

YASF

Posted on 7/2/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Yet another syndication format, necho 0.1, has been introduced by Sam Ruby and gang. Sam offered a preliminary spec for the format and others are releasing feeds in this format so I’m following suit. My necho 0.1 file can be … Continue reading →

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Microsofts Licenses Unix

Posted on 5/20/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Earlier today when I read about Microsoft entering into a licensing agreement with SCO Unix I didn’t know what to make of it. While their claim was that they were doing so in order to be able to work on … Continue reading →

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Now in CDF

Posted on 5/15/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Don Box asked for it. Sam Ruby complied and then it seems like an avalanche of support suddenly appeared. Oh, well, Blosxom makes it trivial to add so Larry’s Log is now available in CDF.

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Poetry, RDF and Finding Things

Posted on 5/12/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Shelley is working on a little project that may have ramifications far outside of the intended target of her project. She’s looking for a way to locate metaphors in poetry that relate to a specific theme. At first glance I … Continue reading →

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Blosxom 2.0 Release Candidate 1

Posted on 3/17/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Rael has released Blosxom 2.0 RC1. I’ve been playing with the beta releases right here and I’m impressed with the added functionality that the plugins offer.

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CSS Layouts Can Suck At Times.

Posted on 3/4/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Like the layout changes I’ve made? I made them because I didn’t like the way the sidebar got in the way of non-CSS aware browsers. Some of my best friends still use Lynx I figured I ought to move things … Continue reading →

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Beta 1 Looked Good

Posted on 2/24/2003 by Larry D. Burton

I was able to get Blosxom 2.0 Beta 1 working without much of a hitch at all. I like the plugin archetecture that Rael has implemented. It seems to work smoothly and has already generated a number of plugins. You … Continue reading →

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Testing Blosxom 2.0 Beta 1

Posted on 2/21/2003 by Larry D. Burton

I haven’t had much of a chance to do more than install it but I have Blosxom 2.0 Beta 1 throwing my content into the \betalog directory. It does have an RSS 1.0 feed located at http://www.dallasbay.net/betalog/index.rss10. I’ll be playing … Continue reading →

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Blosxom 2.0 Beta is out.

Posted on 2/21/2003 by Larry D. Burton

Rael released the first beta code of Blosxom 2.0 yesterday. I downloaded it this morning and will be installing it sometime today to create a test blog for this software. I’ll point to it when I get things working well … Continue reading →

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First Impressions of Blosxom

Posted on 2/13/2003 by Larry D. Burton

I’ve had a chance to play with Blosxom for a couple of days now and I have to say I get more impressed with it the more I play. I didn’t fully comprehend the power of this little script when … Continue reading →

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