Changing my (blog) name, plus Plus

For those following this blog, note that I’ve changed the canonical site name from blog.hecker.org to frankhecker.com. Any links and feed URLs referencing the previous domain name will still work for the foreseeable future, but if and when you have time you may want to update your bookmark list, RSS newsreaders, and related information to reflect the new name. A little history by way of background: I was around when the Internet was first being commercialized, and I had the opportunity to register hecker....

2011-10-30 · 3 min · Frank Hecker

Extensionless URIs for Blosxom entries

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. This post introduces the Blosxom plugin “extensionless.” Ever since reading the essay “Cool URIs don’t change” I’ve wanted to change my web site to conform to some of its recommendations, including the recommendation to omit file extensions (e.g., “.html") on URIs. Unfortunately standard Blosxom requires that a file extension be present in a URI for an individual entry (e....

2006-07-23 · 2 min · Frank Hecker

The feedback plugin, an alternative to writeback

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. When I originally put up my blog one of the major things lacking was support for comments and TrackBacks. After looking at the various alternatives (the writeback plugin, the writebackplus plugin, and so on) I decided to embark on a complete rewrite of the writeback plugin in order to support my particular requirements for a comments system....

2006-07-20 · 6 min · Frank Hecker

Patch for atomfeed plugin (UTC dates)

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. I recently experienced a strange problem with the Atom feed on my weblog. My weblog server is running on US Eastern time as the basic time zone, but the story dates in the Atom feed should be expressed in UTC/GMT; the atomfeed plugin has code that supposedly should do any necessary conversions....

2005-02-20 · 2 min · Frank Hecker

Patch seemore plugin for full text feeds

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. I use the seemore plugin by Todd Larason to show only excerpts of entries on my main blog page, index pages for categories, and archive pages, while displaying the entire article on an individual entry’s page. It’s worked well, with one exception: When I created my RSS and Atom feeds I wanted the feeds to contain the full text of all entries, for the convenience of people using news readers....

2005-01-18 · 1 min · Frank Hecker