lekkimworld.compebble

Upgraded blog software

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:17:22 GMT

I have just finished upgrading my blogging server software (Pebble) from a custom version of version 1.9 to a standard version 2.2. Apart from file truncation issues the migration went fine. RSS feeds should be at their normal address and basically no one should actually see the change unless they visit the homepage. The only items missing is my custom theme. If you experience any problems please let me know by commenting or by sending me an e-mail (lekkim [at] heisterberg.dk).

One nice addition to Pebble 2.x is the support for comment thread RSS feeds which is something I really think the developerWorks blogs should implement. Apart from this there is a host of new nice features.

Patch to Pebble 2.0-RC2 submitted

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:58:34 GMT

I have submitted a patch to Pebble (the blogging software I run) to make it possible to handle additional filetypes using the core Pebble 2.0 framework since I'm building an application on top of the framework. How I love open source!

Comment SPAM - again...

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:15:03 GMT

The easiest way to block comment SPAM is to turn of comments altogether. Another way is to turn of comments to existing posts periodicly which is the way I do it (using a cron job). I'm running Pebble for my blog so disabling comments and trackbacks in bulk is easy using Perl and regular expressions:

perl -pi -e 's/\<commentsEnabled\>true/\<commentsEnabled\>false/' `find . -name [0-9]*.xml`
perl -pi -e 's/\<trackBacksEnabled\>true/\<trackBacksEnabled\>false/' `find . -name [0-9]*.xml`

This is the same approach as I have been used previously to rename categories.