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Hazards of multilingualism

16 Jan 12 , ,

Sometimes it doesn't help to speak another language

One of my New Year resolutions was to improve my password policy, so I've polished up a routine I have been using for a while that lets me have passwords for different sites that differ from each other according to a regular system.So far, so good, until I tried to log in to Google with my new password, and failed miserably.

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PubKitBlog initial release

10 Sep 09 , , ,

PubKitBlog 1.2 submitted as MODx Extra

PubKitBlog, my MODx blog creation and management tool, has now been submitted to the MODx Extras repository. Apparently only six weeks or so have passed by on your planet since I started reworking PubKit. It feels more like a year in my corner of the universe.

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pkBlog changes for tagging

03 Sep 09 ,

MODx blog tool allows custom tags field; future plans

The latest version of pkBlog (v1.1.1b) has an extra parameter so you can name your own tagging template variable - useful if you have two pages using the snippet. pkBlog will come to rest at this point for a while, except for bug-fixes.

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pkBlog: added date fields

25 Aug 09 ,

pkBlog now has publication dates and full status information

PubKitBlog snippet has been updated to allow the optional setting of date ranges when items should be displayed, and the management screen has been spruced up with colour-coded flags for item status.

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pkBlog updated

21 Aug 09 ,

Blogging tool updated with "show in menu" and permalink parameters

Following up on a comment on the initial release of PubKitBlog, the &showinmenu parameter has now been implemented, and generation of aliases (permalinks) for URLs is now possible.

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pkBlog - building a MODx blog

02 Aug 09 ,

Creating a blog with the PubKit snippet

The PubKit snippet is what I created as front-end document manager for another site. It's not ready for publication yet, but meanwhile here's a look at a cut-down version designed for creation of blogs.

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Blog comments added

19 Jul 09 ,

Pogwatch blog now has comments

Blog items on Pogwatch now feature comments, so you can add your remarks to items or see what others think about the topics presented. For now, there's no requirement to log in to add a comment, but there is a captcha field to keep the spam down.

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Pog blog launched!

14 Jul 09 ,

Le jour de gloire est arriv

Not quite the Revolution yet, but today, Bastille Day, Pogwatch evolved a step further, acquiring this blog.

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Wordpress

10 Jul 09 ,

Oh the horror of Wordpress coding now MODx is here!

I have to admit it: the best-looking site I have built was done with Wordpress. I wasn't very familiar with MODx at that time, and in any case Wordpress was already established for the site. But today I had to fix a problem. And it took over an hour to track it down.

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