August 2007 Archives
Have you used Vox? One of my favorite parts of that site was the questions it posed to you on a daily basis. Nothing like a good prompting when you’re lacking inspiration for a blog post. I haven’t been using Vox much lately, and I have missed that functionality, so I thought I would bring it along to Movable Type.
The result? My new QotD plugin. Just grab it here, unpack it into the main MT directory and you will have a new widget available for your MT dashboard’s sidebar.
Enjoy!
First, I see a hummingbird outside on our deck while I am feeding the boys breakfast. I can’t ever remember seeing a live hummingbird before, much less a wild one. For some reason, I thought they didn’t come this far north.
Secondly, Jenn got an email from somebody at Best Buy corporate who, when she called him, offered us a $50 gift card for the crap she went through trying to exchange a computer game a month or so back. She turned it down, of course.
Finally, me and some of the other Apperceptive folks were interviewed by Six Apart. I think that’s my first actual honest-to-goodness interview anywhere. And now I’m worried that my ‘plugin zen’ comment is going to come back and bite me in the butt.
Recently I decided to play around some with MT 4, and after being inspired by the screenshots for Mark Carey’s Vistor Stats plugin, I tossed together a few of my own stat display widgets for the three services I like to keep my eye on:
Both of the Google widgets require that you have the perl module Crypt::SSLeay installed so that https urls can be accessed by perl.
Thanks to Movable Type 4, it would appear that we no longer need my old Entry plugin anymore. By passing an id argument to the MTEntries tag.
<MTEntries id="12345" lastn="1">
....
</MTEntries>
Or, for those of you digging the new template sytax:
<mt:entries id="12345" lastn="1">
....
</mt:entries>
The lastn argument is needed thanks to a bit of a quirk in the MT code. Using the id argument is an undocumented feature, as far as I can tell.
