Miniposts 0.6.8 is now out. It’s another fix release that removes post duplication issues, cleans up the preferences page, and fixes a couple of bugs with the smiley code that nataan contributed.
The big news is that the miniposts plugin is now hosted on WordPress autoinstallation site, meaning that installation and upgrades should be easy peasy. Since this is my first hosted plugin, I’ve taken a quickie screenshot, so I can remember when my plugin’s average rating was 5/5:
Triple Beaver winning (and
donut eating) blogger Zoom has joined Blogawa!
If you would like to join Blogawa, fill out
an application.
No. I’m not pregnant. But seeing
blogawa grow makes me feel like the owner of an ugly dog that nobody likes. Sure, it’s ugly, but sometimes it does something nice, that makes the snickers worth it. In this case, blogawa has sprouted a pair of new contributors: A. and J. of
Please Pick-up Your Socks.
I’ve updated
miniposts to look nice in WordPress 2.7. I’ve also included
naatan‘s smiley goop. Go download
0.6.7 now! (Or wait until WordPress.org lets me host it in their plugin repository)
I’ve added two new contributors to Blogawa:
Jen Gilbert and
Transit Ottawa. Welcome aboard! If you want to get your blog added to Blogawa, hit the
add form.
I’ve added Images of Centretown to Blogawa.ca. Centertowner has lots of pretty pics of the core of our fair city.
I have to offer an apology at this point as well – I’ve been taking most of August away from my computer, so I didn’t add IoC to Blogawa in a timely manner. I asked Centertowner on August 9 if he wanted to join our blogging community, but didn’t actually add him until today.
I’ve also taken this opportunity to remove Standard Issue from the Blogawa blog roll.
piepalace and
blogawa have been down on and off for the past few days. Piepalace has been smacked with thousands of hits (more than 44,000 today alone), and has goosed up its load much higher than usual. Dreamhost has been shutting us down for excessive load.
I’d originally thought that I was being DoS’d but the traffic looks reasonable: valid urls, different agents, spread across a wide range of IPs. Hopefully the load will stay reasonable over the next little while. Although I probable should install wp_cache.
Blogawa.ca has two new contributors: OCInfo, a website about OC Transpo and it’s forays into the online world; and Real Grouchy, a blog that makes my curmudgeonliness look like an affectation (and follows swap boxes).
On Friday I spent a couple of hours combing Ottawa blogs to invite new contributors to the Blogawa fold. Sadly, my response rate is abysmal. For every three invitations I send, I get one response.
Are there any blogs you would like to see added to Blogawa’s blogroll? If so, please leave a comment on this post.
I’d like to switch blogawa.ca to use more standard aggregation software (a) so that I don’t have to maintain the codebase, and (b) so that I can add microformat parsing to the aggregator so that other planet sites will be able to detect microformatted postings.
There only seem to be two popular planet implementations: Planet Planet which is written in python, features 9,503 loc and output generated by a templating engine; the other implementation is planet-php which is written in PHP, with 608 loc (plus 1202 lines of XSL, ugh), and features output generated by XSL.
Given my aversion to templating engines, my dislike of XSL, I seem to be stuck. I either bite a bullet, or I keep up the opensource tradition of forking, splitting, and generally reinventing the wheel. =(
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