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How do I edit HTML files directly?

I'm trying to build a blog/messageboard that uses static HTML files to serve content. I know MovableType used to manage their blog engiene this way, but using Perl CGI scripts. How do I edit/append to HTML files preferebly using PHP? What other methods would people reccommend? ...

I want to learn how to make a blog and skin it to fit into my website design theme. Any suggestions on how to get started?

I have never made a blog before. I am proficient with html and css. I know there are many blog services like "blogger" and "word press" etc where you can make a blog and even pick from skins. Can anyone suggestions on where I can find information for a total beginner on how to use one of these services as the back end for updating my...

heuristic(s) for detecting trackback links on a page

I'm writing my own blog (every one should do this once) and the project for this week is to automatically send (trackback || pingback) requests to pages to which I am linking. I'm writing in ruby, but would also like general heuristics. I would like some advice on the following: 1) What is the best way to pull RDF out of a document when...

Transfer From a Wordpress Blog to Direct domain

One of my friends is facing an issue. He have a blog with wordpress - 'www.xyz.wordpress.com' and he want to convert it to 'www.xyz.com' by purchasing a domain name with wordpress. In this case, what would happen to his existing RSS feeds once the blog is transferred from www.xyz.wordpress.com to www.xyz.com. Will the RSS Subscribers b...

Platform-independent permalinks - best practices?

I'm trying to figure out a generic permalinks structure for blogging, in order to be platform-independent. I know that Wordpress supports permalinks, and has some plugins for various permalinks style migration, but I also have to get it working in FlatPress and PivotX, and I don't have URL rewriting support in every place. So far, I wil...

Looking for something better than Zemanta and Apture

I'm looking for some tool like Zemanta or Apture to embed in a self developed cms, but I wonder if does exist something less tricky. From a end user point of view, Apture (www.apture.com) does a fantastic job, but its javascript layer on top of the web page (bad solution, to me) and the fact that there isn't any plugin available for FC...

How to implement permissions in a blogging system?

I am rolling my own blogging system and I am wondering how to determine permissions and implement them in a blogging system? What should be the permissions for a commenter, a blogger and an admin? What is the best way to implement them? ...

Suitable CMS framework for MVC site

I have an MVC application in process of development and want to see if I can integrate it into an MVC-based CMS environment. The idea is that the application will appear to run in an environment wherein the user can actually add/edit web pages, download documents do blogs, handle Facebook integration etc. In some respects I am almost lo...

Blogging with R: easy way to embed R in a blog post?

There is a very nice Mediawiki plugin for R which allows you to embed R code in any wiki page. It takes a little effort to configure, but it's really useful once you have it in place. Does anyone know of an equivalent for embedding R in a blog post? The only thing I could find was this wordpress plugin called RWebFriend, but it only a...

Any Rails projects that allow community blogging?

I've been looking on Github for a Rails project that allows anyone to sign in and add a blog entry. Has anyone seen something like this? ...

SEO Question for back links without anchor text

What would be the benefit of having a back link with no anchor text? A friend of mine got a message asking if he would do a naked back link on his blog. ...

Can/should I run my web site against a SQLite database?

I'm about to build a new personal blog/portfolio site (which will be written in ASP.NET), and I'm going to run it against a SQLite database. There are a few reasons for this: The site will not be getting a lot of traffic, and from what I've read, SQLite is able to support quite a lot of concurrent users for reading anyway I can back up...

Good blogs about multi-threaded development?

About a year ago I read the book "Java concurrency in practice" and I learned a lot from it. I was wondering if there are any blogs about multi-threaded development in Java, since many topics discussed in blogs are not covered in books. If this blog also contains techniques about testing thread-safety it would be great, but any blog abo...

Cluster and rank blogs by logical categories

What kind of algorithm would be good to cluster and rank blogs in logical communities (tech, entertainment, etc...)? An algorithm to cluster and rank blog posts would be even better. Answers accepted are algorithms, pseudo-code, java code or links to explanations on particular algorithms. Update: So, it seems I would like something i...

is it possible to have a page like this on my blogger questions and answers

I would love to have a page like this in section in my blogger where people who are done reading but have a questions can ask where others can answer if they can . if so please let me know. ...

Intergrate wordpress blog with joomla website.

Hi, I have a website which I developed in joomla...... and a blog in wordpress.... Now I want to integrate that blog with my Joomla website....... without using wrappers or CorePHP component..... Is there any way to do this???? Thnx in advance ...

Integrate "Blog" module into asp.net mvc app?

Is there any open source blog engine code available on asp.net mvc written in c# language? I need to write a blog module for our application. I was wondering if any open source code available means i can use that. Thanks in advance. ...

wordpress-mu: other options apart buddypress to build a good blog social network home page etc…?

Hi, I want to mount a social network of blogs and I am using Wordpress-mu, I need to have a home page to resume all the activity / members / comments, and add featured blogs. I have considered buddypress but I am not very satisfied, because it has more things than what I want. Plz, can you give me names / urls of free plugins for wordp...

Posting source code to blog - Control with scrollbar & keep formatting

We are looking for a control we can use in our WordPress blogs that will keep our source code formatting and provide scrollbars. I know I have seen this control in use but cannot find a name or source for them. Thanks! ...

Blog host with importing from dotnetnuke blog

I want to migrate my blog from my own dotnetnuke site to another host (like blogger, posterous etc). Do you know any such host that supports importing from dotnetnuke. Posterous supports importing using MetaWebLog API, which is supposed to be supported by dotnetnuke blog module. I tried it but it does not work. I always get 'We were not ...