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Sunday, June 11th, 2006. Posted in Blogging, Conversant, Misc, WordPress | 1 Comment »>

Big move

After much consideration, hestitation and general mixed feelings about the idea, I’ve decided to move into a new blog. This is blog is powered by WordPress. I’ve imported all my old content back to when I started blogging in Conversant in early 2000 (I blogged in Manila for a bit before that).
Conversant [...]

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006. Posted in Blogging, Conversant, Misc, WordPress | No Comments »>

Conversant-Ruby scripts

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Friday, April 14th, 2006. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

Conversant Patterns Contest

The doors have opened on the first Conversant patterns contest. A relatively new Conversant feature, patterns are sort of like themes, but control not just the appearance, but entire structure and functionality of a Conversant site. Pretty cool stuff. Guess I’ll have to get something worked up. Besides, I need a [...]

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

Weblog II for Conversant

That’s right, ladies and gentleman, the software I’ve used for this weblog for the last 10 years or so is now out of private beta!
Nice job, Seth! Weblog II is powerful and flexible stuff!

Thursday, December 1st, 2005. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

New Security Feature in Conversant

Macrobyte rolled out new security features in Conversant today. For the average non-technical Joe, I’m sure blogger, Live Journal, etc, are fine — but I pity the geek blogging in anything but Conversant. You don’t know what you’re missing. Incredible flexibility.
Thanks to Clark for sponsoring developement of this feature.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

Trackback in Conversant

As Seth mentions, he’s added Trackback support to Conversant. This is something I’ve been looking forward to…it’s a very cool cross-reference system for the web. I imagine I’ll be giving a lot more trackbacks than I receive — but that’s fine. Nice work, Seth!

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

What is Conversant?

Seth posted a long overview outline about Conversant — the software that runs this website. I love Conversant, it’s a great tool once you “get” it. Unfortunately, I think this outline draws attention to one of the main reasons more people haven’t “gotten” it. While very powerful, it’s never been focused on [...]

Friday, January 14th, 2005. Posted in Conversant | 2 Comments »>

Frontier to go open source

As Seth noted, Frontier is being split off from Userland and released open source. I have a lot of history with Frontier, and this site runs in Conversant, which runs on top of Frontier — so it’s an interesting development to me.
I still haven’t seen mention of the licensing terms, and it’s not clear [...]

Monday, May 17th, 2004. Posted in Conversant, Technology | No Comments »>

Conversant praise

Brian Carnell has praised Conversant before, but he wrote another nice piece today. Always good to hear, since there’s still a good bit of my code running in Conversant’s veins.

Friday, May 14th, 2004. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

Bonded Lightning Protection

Another new Conversant website, designed by yours truly, has gone live today. It’s a minor update to the website for my employers construction division, Bonded Lightning Protection.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2003. Posted in Conversant, Work | 1 Comment »>

WYSIWYG editing

I’ve added support for WYSIWYG editing to this site, using Conversant’s new HTMLArea3 plugin. At this stage it’s a bit of an experiment, because I’m not that fond of WYSIWYG HTML, but some other people using this site might be. It defaults to on for all new topic, reply and edit forms.
You need [...]

Thursday, August 7th, 2003. Posted in Conversant | 1 Comment »>

Channel list

I finally added a channel list in the sidebar of this blog. Most posts are categorized by topic…Conversant’s new Weblog II page gives you an easy way to filter the weblog to only show posts in certain categories. Try it, click on the “music” link in the “Channels” box in the sidebar, and [...]

Friday, August 1st, 2003. Posted in Conversant, Technology | No Comments »>

Weblog search

Dave Winer’s new killer app doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to people using Conversant…since searching is built in, but I guess if you don’t already have it, it sounds pretty neat.
Look…try the form below to search this weblog…and get a filtered view of the weblog showing only posts that match your search:
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2003. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>

Welcome to Weblog II

I just upgraded my home page to Conversant’s new beta Weblog II page type. The existing weblog page in Conversant was one of the first things implemented in Conversant, and didn’t take advantage of a lot of the newer features. Weblog II is incredible — it’s not done yet, but is already one [...]

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