Zenlog
Conditional Host Name Plugin for Textpattern: aam_if_host
This is a plugin for Textpattern users who stage website development across multiple domains or subdomains. With aam_if_host, your templates can do one thing on the in-development site, and another on the “live” site.
Microsoft Sends Mixed Messages on Security, Piracy
Last week, Microsoft announced that it will allow users of pirated Windows XP copies to install Internet Explorer 7. This is a reversal of the company’s earlier policy, which locked out pirate copies of all its software from anything but the most critical security updates.
Microsoft said the IE7 policy was changed for security reasons, but there’s a flaw in Microsoft’s apparent altruism: all of their other software.
Improve Compatibility Between asy_jpcache and zem_contact_reborn
My latest Textpattern plugin helps two other plugins co-exist peacefully: the full-page caching of asy_jpcache and the powerful form processing of zem_contact_reborn.
Comment Spam Filter Added
After some recent comment spam attacks, I’ve added an anti-spam filter to the weblog. A brief explanation of how this thing works, and what you might experience if your legitimate comment accidentally sets off the filter…
Typogrify for Textpattern
A couple of weeks ago, Jeff Croft got Web typography geeks like me very excited by announcing Typogrify. Made for the Python-based Django framework, this set of text filters provides widow control similar to Shaun Inman’s Widon’t and adds a handful of useful styling hooks for improving the presentation of online text.
When I released a version of Widon’t for Textpattern last week, it didn’t take long to find out that what everybody really wanted was Typogrify. Well, I aim to please… so here you go.
Widon’t Plugin for Textpattern
I’m pleased to introduce “Widon’t for Textpattern,” my first plugin for the Textpattern CMS.
The aam_widont plugin is a re-implementation of Shaun Inman’s Widon’t 2.1 for WordPress as a Textpattern plugin. It prevents typographical widows—words that appear all by themselves on the last line of a paragraph or title.