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Archive for October 9th, 2002

the parable of the languages

Burning Bird has posted The Parable of the Languages. It tells the tale of a group of programming languages, each with similar gripes and complains, banning together to defeat the eternal thorn in their collective sides. Well worth the read.

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LiveJournal syndication broken

When I posted an entry regarding my upgrade to MovableType 2.5 I neglected to realize that one of the changes in the upgrade was that TrackBack pings are now sent via POST and not GET. My LiveJournal syndication script works via the TrackBack protocol, but was set up only to accept GET data. This is [...]

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MovableType 2.5 released

Is it just me, or am I the only one not excited about MovableType's 2.5 release? I installed it on revjim.net, mostly to get the integrated search capabilities.
Ben and Mena certainly deserve praise for their hard work. Regardless of what anyone says, good or bad about it, it certainly has swept the blogging world off [...]

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Sometimes it amazes me how the mind works. It's amazing how, people in completely different circumstance, with completely different influences, can come to the same conclusion over time. It's also amazing how, even with formal training, those conclusions are not mandated.
First, some background. I've had no formal computer programming training. Everything I know I taught [...]

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