03 January 2006
Blogger's CAPTCHA overuse
by ecmanaut
That's an awful shame; Blogger really ought to do better than that. You did click the link to prompt them to verify you? (I at least <i>think</i> I recall there was such a link somewhere around the message explaining the additional CAPTCHAs. Not 100% sure
Blogger Blogthis! Upgrade - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
We both did. Where the Google Reader people are Greasemonkey friendly and generally housebroken, the Blogger people certainly are not, randomly spray changing name and id attributes all over the place, always restructuring, rarely if ever reusing the same
Blogger's CAPTCHA overuse
by ecmanaut
They do, in the particular case when a blog author has the Blogger internal flag "likely splogger" set. But only then. Are you still not cleared from that suspicion, Jasper? I had it for a few days at most, before being cleared by some anonymous Blogger r
02 January 2006
Backing up your Blogger blogs
by ecmanaut
Indeed, it only lists the latest 100 posts, and this post (counting a few uncompleted drafts) is number 101, just pushing my first post off the page.<br><br>Still, it is a somewhat useful default strategy for doing incremental post backups.
25 December 2005
BlogThis! with my updated post tagger helper
by ecmanaut
Not yet, no, unless <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/permalinks-and-their-applications.html#c113393903692885545">a rather technical hint</a> counts. A post on it will most likely appear eventually, though.
23 December 2005
Another Comment Feed Hack - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
It's unfortunate that this method does not differentiate between multiple blogs authored by the same author. My own such feed, should I have one, would be plagued by commentary in Swedish besides the English for ecmanaut, and on <i>vastly</i> different su
20 December 2005
Template upgrades
by ecmanaut
The reason for javascript to handle backlinks is that this is how Blogger adds the backlinks to blogs; it's not template tags rendered server side but actually template tags that get parsed client side, inject one script tag per post having backlinks and
12 December 2005
Inline Comments Hack - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Rather clever idea, using the comment URL field to add photos to common posters. I think I might eventually adopt something similar myself; the Blogger profile hack with iframes I use at the moment is kind of ugly.
11 December 2005
Comment Notification Added
by ecmanaut
Nice hack. I'd suggest using an onclick handler and keeping the href attribute for browsers with javascript turned off, though.
05 December 2005
Greasemonkey Method: Update for Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4 - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Excellent and to-the-point summary! I think I'll write a small follow-up on <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/styling-your-blog-post-tags-list-with.html?tags=Blogger" >how to style the tags list to get nice little Del.icio.us icons</a> the way
01 December 2005
Blogger Del.icio.us categorizer script
by ecmanaut
<i>I had no problems with this script using Firefox 1.5rc3 and Greasemonkey 0.6.3, but it does not work for me using final 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4.</i><br><br>I have not run this for some time, after having moved on to the <a href="http://ecmanaut.blog
30 November 2005
Tags, Categories, Technorati
by ecmanaut
I don't believe Blogger executes any PHP code in Blogger templates, though; you're pretty much limited to javascript, and to get that to work with an RSS feed, the feed needs to be fetched from the same domain as the blog itself.
29 November 2005
Adding calendar navigation to your Blogger template
by ecmanaut
How annoying. For some reason, the calendar project I picked to work off has really bad, old and outdated language files for non-English languages; the Swedish language file was just as bad before I fixed mine.<br><br>If you take your trouble to edit it t
23 November 2005
Browservulsel: Blogger backlinks the custom way
by ecmanaut
How simple and robust it became if one didn't bother with the custom foldable bits Blogger offer for folding and unfolding the backlinks, which I took to doing of my own with what little Blogger offers in scripted provisions for that. I really ought to st
Blogger backlinks on main and archive pages too
by ecmanaut
I wrote up a long-sought-after post on <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-previous-and-next-links.html">how to set up previous and next date links in Blogger</a> now. (Previous and next <i>post</i> is, unfortunately, a lot harder, and s
16 November 2005
Google Mint?
by ecmanaut
I had the same problem migrating from Advogato a while ago, but that was made much less painful using <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/08/advogato-xmlrpc-api.html" rel="nofollow">a quick Advogato XMLRPC API hack</a> I tossed up. Looking back on
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