Gary Boone, PhD » Internet

Blog/facebook Integration Fail

gary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:42:06 +0000

Facebook’s Notes application can import blogs, but the links shown in wall updates link to the Notes instead of your blog. Lame.

Testing wordpress/facebook/twitter integration.

gary — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:43:09 +0000

When you have to make an effort to unify this many moving parts, that should smell like a business opportunity. For example, walk around a Web 2.0 type conference and count how many companies are building ‘turn-key’ ’solutions’ on top of cloud computing infrastructure.

WordPress Installation Notes

gary — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:51:34 +0000

It’s been a few years since I last updated WordPress on this blog. I was surprised to find that the process hasn’t become much more user-friendly. Some problems I encountered, with solutions:

1. Problems with the email-to-post tool: the email-to-post tool requires creating a cron job to periodically check the Pop3 account. Instead, install Postie, which doesn’t require cron and is more powerful. For example, it whitelists allowed-posters for security, can strip signatures from the email, and includes macros, video embedding, and other features.

2. Problems with image uploads: when using the admin image upload tool, images would fail to complete their upload and would not appear in the gallery. Solution: add these lines to the .htaccess file:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

By default, you don’t have an .htaccess file. So use your WordPress Settings | Permalinks page to change your permalinks style. That will create an .htaccess file. Then add the above lines at the end of that file.

initial commit

gary — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:47:35 +0000

New version of blog.