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Ever since the initial release of Movable Type, Six Apart has been invested in the idea of writing content management systems that consist of an authoring tool that publishes static files. In the more recent Movable Type releases, support for dynamic publishing templates has been added, but Six Apart has still been wed to the [...]

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One question I’m wrangling with right now is how to add authenticated feeds to an application. I have an application that you have to log into in order to use. The application will publish some feeds. I have to decide whether or not to require authentication to view the feeds, and if so, how that [...]

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After some recent contemplation, I’ve completely rethought my approach to photography. I decided to write about this after reading Khoi Vinh’s post about a digital photography class that he’s taking and the kinds of pictures he aspires to take.

For many years, I’d say that my taste in photography has been pretentious and that my aspirations [...]

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A few months ago I signed up for an emusic.com subscription. For about $10 a month, you get the right to download 40 MP3s a month that are yours to keep. At 25 cents a track, it’s a great deal as long as the site has enough music that interests you to keep your queue [...]

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I was trying to add my name to the list of attendees on the BarCampRDU Web site yesterday, and I found that regardless of the time of day, I couldn’t get in, because the wiki software that is used to manage the site grants an exclusive lock to the person editing the page for 15 [...]

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I just got my blog set up at Vox. The posting tools are pretty nice. Nicer than my Movable 3.2 installation anyway, although not as nice as MarsEdit. Don’t expect the name of the new weblog to last.

The emergence of Vox has led me to lots of thoughts about the evolution of online communities, [...]

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I was able to obtain an invitation to Vox yesterday, and after using the invitation I got my first surprise — when you sign up for Vox, you don’t start out with all of the toys that everybody else has. You are initially inducted at Starter level. What’s that mean?

You don’t get your own weblog. [...]

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I’m anxious to see Google’s spreadsheet product, because I strongly suspect that it will do 99% of the things that I actually use Excel for, which represents about 2% of its overall capabilities.

Excel is an interesting product to me, in that it’s as close as you can get to being an application development platform without [...]

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One question I’m still puzzling through with Ruby on Rails is the logical unit of reuse for Web actions. This is a key question regardless of which Web application platform you use.

Since everybody has been exposed to PHP, let me use it to explain what I’m talking about. Let’s say you’re writing an application that [...]

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I didn’t think I needed a Vox invitation, but now I think I do. Anyone care to oblige?

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