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WordPress 2.0-RC1

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on November 28, 2005

in Internet, Linux, Open Source and Personal

. 4 Comments Tags: blog, blogs, bugs, mysql, news, PHP, release-candidate, web, web-2.0, web2, web2.0, WordPress, wordpress-2-0.

WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is here. I don’t have any official links or anything, I haven’t even seen a mention of it on the mailing list. We’ve had one WordPress 2.0 test release each week for the last three weeks now. I like it. Only way I know of to grab it is via subversion.

I’ve noticed something weird in 2.0 Beta 2 though. It may have been there in Beta 1 also, may still be in RC1, who knows. None of my tags show up on Technorati or anywhere. And I also noticed there’s no data in the “wp_postmeta” table relating to the freshly published post, like there should be. So, after publishing the post, I’m taken back to the “write post” page. Only, the “write post” page doesn’t finish loading for a couple minutes sometimes. Previously, I had just navigated away from the loading page without giving it a second thought. I decided to wait for it to finish tonight. After loading, all the tags I had set for that post were in their proper places in the “wp_postmeta” table.

There were some pretty odd circumstances with that post though. For one, I set the posts date/time to about 3 minutes out from where I currently was. After I published the article, it took about 3 minutes to show up here. That behavior is totally expected though. WordPress is good like that.

Also, there were some values in “wp_postmeta” I had never seen before. I didn’t write em down, if I seem it again soon I’ll make a note. All I know is the “meta_key” value was set to something like “_ping_me” or something similar to that. After the post had published, the unknown “meta_key” value had been deleted and my tags were in their proper place in that table.

Now, I don’t know if this behavior is always there when post-dating a post, but it seemed like the ping services (in “wp_options” table) were actually being pinged while the “write post” page was loading right after I had published.

Who knows, maybe it’s all coincidence. Time will tell. Oh, and before I forget, PHP 5.1.0 broke WordPress and lots of stuff for me, and lots of others as well. Tried upgrading to PHP 5.1.1 today, same broken shit. Pages load blank the first time around, second time they load perfectly. I’m sticking with 5.0.x for a while. Soon to be moving to MySQL 5. I’m pretty sure I don’t have to pay for MySQL 5, I gotta research that a little first. I assume I can because the .tar.bz2 source is where it should be on dev.mysql.com.

OK, time to upgrade to WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate 1 before bed. I gotta say though, I love the new dashboard. It’s got a Web 2.0 feel to it, but nobody knows what Web 2.0 is. So, I’m gonna take a chance and say “I really dig the new half Web 2.0 WordPress.”

UPDATE: OK, all updated to 2.0-RC1 now. You should ignore everything above this update pretty much. The problem I spoke about earlier isn’t related to WordPress, don’t hold me to that though. I did some more testing before upgrading to 2.0-RC1. I think it’s some odd plugin functionality. I’ve been using Jerome’s Keywords for tagging. Every time I edit a post the tags get wiped. I know that’s the general problem. I don’t know if it’s caused by the plugin or if it’s WordPress wiping out all the “custom fields”. Jerome’s Keywords stores its tag data in those “custom fields”, inside the “wp_postmeta” table.

You can get WordPress 2.0-RC1 in the nightly builds directory on the wordpress.org server.

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Blogpulse: Crawling Again

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Tyler

on October 14, 2005

in Internet and Personal

. 7 Comments Tags: ajax, blog, blogpulse, blogs, broken, PHP, plugin, web-2.0, web2, web2.0, WordPress.

I noticed last month that my Blogpulse Profile page was no longer staying up to date. According to them, my last post was on August 25th. I sent an e-mail asking if something was up on their end or if there was some problem on my end.

I finally got an e-mail back yesterday. It seems some code on this site was preventing their crawler from indexing anything. I’m not gonna post the code, who knows what it’ll do if I try posting it. The code basically looked like an HTML comment and contained the text “CDATA”.

Sure enough, the offending code in the e-mail was easily found when viewing the source at this site. I was sure something was wrong on the Blogpulse side of things, I couldn’t think of any changes I had made that would affect their ability to index this site. I was wrong.

I had switched the contact form over from WP-ContactForm to Intouch. I wanted to give Intouch a shot because it made use of AJAX mostly. It worked well so I stuck with it. Turns out Intouch was the source of the bad code that prevented the blogpulse crawlers from indexing me.

After reverting back to using the WP-ContactForm plugin, everything looks good. The offending code can no longer be found here. Still waiting for my Blogpulse Profile page to update though. I’d expect it to be back in sync by the end of the weekend.

I wonder what other blog services have been unable to crawl this site due to that code.

Linked @ California Conservative, Cao’s Blog, The Political Teen, Outside The Beltway, Mudville Gazette, Jo’s Cafe and MacStansbury.

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Google Reader

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Tyler

on October 7, 2005

in Internet, Personal and Search

. 0 Comments Tags: ajax, feedreader, feeds, google, google-reader, javascript, rss, web-2.0, web2.0.

Google announced Google Reader at the Web 2.0 Conference. It’s supposed to make it easier to manage lots and lots of feeds. Check out the tour for more on how the whole thing works.

I’ve used it a little, not much yet though as it seems to be running incredibly slow at the moment. I really like how it shows your different feeds and how it displays articles from the feed. It’s got a nice interface but needs a lot of little things done to it. There’s really no confirmation after you click the “subscribe” button, when you go back to your Reader home, you’ll be notified of feeds you’ve recently subscribed to.

Hopefully it’s not truly as slow as it currently is. There’s no way in hell I could use it at this speed. It looks fun though. Thanks to Matt for the news. Om Malik’s Broadband Blog and Between The Lines have the news too.

UPDATE: I think Google Reader was getting hammered with requests earlier. It’s much snappier now and has an interface very similar to that of Gmail. I like it, I dun care what anyone says. I still love you Google, dun listen to all those haters. I’ve already forgotten about the failed web accelerator…

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Ning

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Tyler

on October 5, 2005

in Internet and Personal

. 3 Comments Tags: ajax, blog, blogs, google, javascript, ning, PHP, web-2.0, web2.0, yahoo.

Lastnight, Marc Andresson (Co-Founder of Netscape) and his people released Ning. What is Ning you may ask?

Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for people to build and run social applications. Social “apps” are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people.

Our goal with Ning is to see what happens when you open things up and make it easy to create, share, and discover new social apps. These might include for any city, your own take on Craigslist…for any passion, your own take on Match.com…for any interest, your own take on Zagat…for any event, your own take on Flickr…for any school, your own take on the Facebook…for any topic, your own take on del.icio.us…for any mammal, your own take on Hot or Not or Kitten War.

You choose the app, decide for whom it’s most relevant, create the categories, define the features, choose the language - or just clone an app that’s already up and running on Ning - and be on your way.

Check out SiliconBeat for more. To me, it basically sounds like a framework for building new applications that gather information from many different sources. Or maybe a method for combining select pieces of a service into one larger service.

Richard MacManus, over at Web 2.0 Explorer makes a good point in that the API provided by various web services will become very important. Jeff Clavier points out this could end up being the meta-framework for building social media applications.

Should make for some interesting applications in the near future. All this in the move to Web 2.0, which I find to be mostly a marketing ploy. Web 2.0 can’t come about until the security is there and everyone has reliable and fast internet access.

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