As a few of you probably already know, Kristine and I are working on putting together an "official" Plugin Manager to take care of installing, upgrading, and...
Hi all, I thought I'd share a little plugin tag I've been using that comes in handy when developing and debugging plugins. While "DumpStash" sounds like...
It's OK to ask this here, isn't it? I'm writing a plugin that finds a random entry from today in previous years. Here is some code: warn "Getting entries from...
All -- You can see the announcement here: http://www.gregorpurdy.com/gregor/gw/ Permalink is here: http://www.gregorpurdy.com/gregor/gw/by-entry/000470.html ...
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TikiText is a text formatting notation and engine that I've been using myself and have decided to release to the public to vet further. In addition to the...
These sample formatting options look good, certainly better than Textile. I was talking about these ideas re: Textile with Jason Kottke, and the conclusion we...
[Hint: Don't turn off comments by default and then opt to hide the comment open/closed box in your CMS. It could be detrimental to your efforts and self-esteem...
Okay, so now we have MT::PluginData. After talking with one of the users of my MTSearches plugin today about my plans for a new version, she made a good ...
I'm currently in the final stages of an article that I'm doing for O'Reilly on developing MT plugins. One section I was planning on adding are best practices...
... Just one -- and it's something I've been guilty of. MT plugin writers shouldn't so narrowly focus their efforts on Movable Type. For example: MT-Textile....
... Several months ago I mentioned to Brad that I thought it would be a good idea to port MTAmazon's base code to a more open Perl module. Apparently he got...
... For people running MT under mod_perl it works the other way around. If you do include this bit of advice, you'll have to tell people to do a require and an...
... Include discussion about how to spot the API problems in the documentation for your module. Include a reference to the Amazon Developer Boards and other...
... The next version of SmartyPants works, unchanged, as both an MT and Blosxom plug-in. Well, mostly unchanged. Blosxom users do need to change the plug-in's...
... I'd like to use as much information as I can get my hands on. It would be easier to just use the plugin file itself to store in the information, but that...
... I disagree with this, at least if you plan on writing a plug-in that supports other tools like Blosxom. I'm just using: package SmartyPants; use strict; ...
... This is exactly the reason I wanted to write the Plugin Manager in the first place. It will simplify plugin installtion to just pressing an 'Install' ...
... First of all who cares about Blosxom?!? ;) On a more serious note, this is only a recommendation not a requirement. Those who know what you are talking...
I have three off the cuff reactions in looking at this. Take them for what they are worth. 1) It seems like a bit much. I don't have to do this with CPAN which...
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. While this topic is being discussed, here are two possible best practices I've been considering that I left out of my...
... I've had to play with this a lot with all the Post-It and ComeBack code I've written. When Ben upgrading his installation, LazyWeb went kaput because I ...
... This would be nice, but MT doesn't allow for this. The allowed parameter names for the mt.cfg file are pre-defined in MT::ConfigMgr. Any parameters that...
... MTAmazon uses it's own config file that's formatted just like mt.cfg and uses ConfigMgr to read it. ................................... Adam Kalsey ...
... How about a plugins.cfg file that is read after all the plugins have been loaded? That way there's no need to keep track of more than two config files. --...
... I don't think this is a big advantage to users, because I highly doubt there are very many real people running MT and Blosxom on the same machine. Anyone...
Morning all, I've just been allowed to go public with it: I'm doing "Weblog Hacks" for O'Reilly, and we're inviting bloggers to contribute their best hack,...
From the changelog: "The XML-RPC server now sends and receives the mt_convert_breaks field as a String value, rather than a boolean, to support the Text ...
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