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how to use blog variable on javascript

I'm using blogger.com. I need to use data:blog.url variable on the javascript. But i don't know how to assign to any javascript variable. How to get blogspot variables on the javascript? ...

Programmer, not a blogger

I need advice from people who might understand where I'm coming from. I'm the lead engineer on a software product. The company I'm working for recently expressed serious interest in having me blog about it (much to my dread). They even had someone set me up a blog. I have Asperger's disorder. I'm really good at taking complex softwar...

getting comatose working with authlogic

I started using comatose to handle content on my site but am having problems using it with my existing authentication using a generic Authlogic config. In the readme he sites an example for configuring it with Restful Authentication and I'm wondering how I would do the same within a general Authlogic setup? #environment.rb Com...

Integrating tumblr blog with website

Hi, I would like to integrate my tumblr feed in to my website. It seems that tumblr has an API for this, but I'm not quite sure how to use it. From what I understand, I request the page, and tumblr returns an xml file with the contents of my blog. But how do I then make this xml into meaningful html? Must I parse it with php, turning the...

Hotlinking increases traffic/pageviews?

Several websites are hotlinking my images, I'm going to block them but if hotlinking helps traffic/page-views in any way at the cost of bandwidth, I won't. Are there any advantages to hotlinking, if any? Thanks ...

Using Sphinx to write personal websites and blogs

Sphinx is a Python library to generate nice documentation from a set of ReST formatted text files. I wonder if any one has written Sphinx plugins to make it generate personal websites and blogs. Especially for blogs, there needs to be a way to automatically list posts chronologically and generate a RSS feed. One needs to write a Sphinx...

Get at tags for blog posts programmatically

I wonder how to get at tags in blog posts (WordPress, Blogger, or Blogspot) programmatically (API, RSS feed, XML, other methods). Preferably a solution usable in Ruby on Rails. ...

How to move posts from blogging engine to another

How one can move blog posts from blogging engine to another? Is there away to transfer posts between blog engines, blogs ... lets say from community server blog to blog engine blog vice versa? Can that be done by using OPML, rss, atom ..etc? ...

Is there a community blog site for programmers like LiveJournal?

Is there a community blog site for programmers like LiveJournal does for general users? I can think of Artima. Are there anything else? ...

Listing blog entries by month

I am writing custom code to create a blog. I need the archives page to list all the blog entries by month. I cannot come up with a way to do that. I guess it should not be too tough as it is a common feature on all blogs. The table structure is (postid, posttitle, publishdate, .....) ...

How to integrate a blog engine into an asp.net mvc site?

My current site (VisualHint) uses ExpressionEngine and allows me to have the basic ecommerce I need inside a templated web site containing several blogs (one is the main blog, the others are testimonials, announcements). But I need more to handle licenses and subscriptions, so I decided to port the site to asp.net mvc. My only concern r...

How do I render a blog feed inside of another page?

I'm doing a fairly small project for a friend/client who wants a website with some information on it, a couple of simple pages, and a blog. I want the blog to be integrated into the site really well, and not have to build the site around Wordpress or other software (and I don't want to have a page with two links for "Enter Site" or "Ente...

How to allow self-registration to join a specific Wordpress MU blog.

Hi, I have a Wordpress MU instance installed. I allow self-registration, and self-creation of blogs. I have a user who has created a blog for a Chemistry class. He wants his 100 students to be able to self-register and become authors on this blog. By default, when you follow the Wordpress MU register link, you are signing up for a ...

Search posts from a group of blogs

Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way for me to search contents from a selected number of blogs. For Example: Assume I have three blogs Blog1 (has 5 posts) Blog2 (has 6 posts) Blog3 (has 1 post) now I want to implement a search that would search within these 12 (5+6+1) posts. I think I need to use some kind of API for th...

I want to create blog posts to drupal by sending messages through Outlook. Ideas??

I think for two options, either to send messages to Drupal with SOAP or XML-RPC or by sending e-mail. ...

Blog Search API in Java

Hi, Can anyone point out a blog search API in Java ? Looked at the Bloglines search API but could not find a Java-based API there. ...

how to integrate Blogs in sharepoint custom site

hi, in my sharepoint site, I need to integrate blogs. can any one give me help with this? Integrating Blog in SharePoint site my sharepoint site Custom site Definition i am selecting custom site template ...

Converting RSS feed to Atom via Feedburner for existing blog

I have an RSS based blog that I now want to convert to Atom. Feedburner can change the output format in one click. Will my existing subscribers notice any change on the reader side? (other than taking advantage of the extra atom functionality) ...

Tagging Posts via Wordpress XMLRPC

Hey there, i am trying to publish a new post to a wordpress blog over the XMLRPC API. This works out fine so far, but now i want to add tags to the post. Either at creation time or afterwards. But i can't find any solutions in the supported APIs. Any clue on how i can tag new posts via XMLRPC requests? ...

Apache 400 Absolute Path for Blogs

Here is an example of a blog with this issue. It uses Apache to send a 400 error, but keep the url as is. Is there a way in Apache using a .htaccess file to keep the url as is so the PHP script can do as needed with it, but not send a 400 error? The site works fine in some browsers, but those like IE and mobile browsers have there own...