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May 19, 2006
Google Maps does Sydney
Woohoo, Google Maps now includes Sydney and NSW in general. It's very impressive! However I still couldn't get Google Maps to locate my address. I tried several different permutations and still nothing. I tried big landmarks such as 366 George St in the city and still no luck. Maybe they haven't implement the mapping engine 100%, but it's already looking very impressive. All the roads are there, even the backroads.
This is already looking so much better than crappy Whereis mapping engine. When Google add the direction engine I can't see any reason why I would want to use Whereis.
Update: Wrong info, Google actually puts Australia on the map not just NSW.
Posted by vhadiant at 06:36 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 04, 2006
Comment spam bonanza
It seems that MovableType's basic comment spam defense is working. All spams are neatly tucked in the "Junk Comment" tab while two spams escaped the junk comment rating.
I need to put more anti-spam plug-ins to buff up the defense. Unfortunately I couldn't get the CAPTCHA plug-in to work. With this current anti-spam measure those spam still made it to the system, I'd like it to not enter the system at all if I can help it.
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May 03, 2006
Upgrading MovableType (for real this time)
Not happy with my previous upgrade attempt since it pretty much destroys all the existing files I tried another MovableType 3.2 upgrade attempt. This time it's much more successful.
You can pretty much disregard the instruction on MovableType website for "upgrading" MovableType installation. This is what you need to do:
1) Backup everything, including your MovableType's database. I'm using BerkeleyDB so it's very easy for me.
2) Extract MovableType's tar.gz file into a new directory
3) Fix your mt-config.cgi. For me there are only two (yes two) settings that I need to fix. The path for my new MT 3.2 install and the location of the datasource. Point the datasource to the old MT 3.1x BerkeleyDB
4) On your web browser go to your new MovableType 3.2 directory's mt.cgi. That will automatically sets the upgrade process and voila you're done.
This way my templates, old generated files are still the same. One thing that I still couldn't figure out is that I can't see all the comments on the comments list. They are there if I go to the individual entries but a lot are missing from the main comments page. I hope this is not a sign of a corruption again.
Posted by vhadiant at 09:42 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 02, 2006
"Upgrading" MovableType
Fed up with the lack of anti-spam plug-in for MovableType 3.1x I've decided to once again tried to upgrade to MovableType 3.2.
Once again I was thwarted by the cryptic Perl error messages. This time though I had my resolve to use MovableType 3.2. I found out that installing it fresh seems to work, so rather than doing an "upgrade" I exported the content of my old blogs and imported back to the new installation.
It seems to work good enough, but it does have a few drawbacks:
1) Archives by default are stored in the root blog directory. I didn't realise this because before all my archives are neatly stored under the "archives" directory.
2) MT 3.2 seems to generate different filename than the MT 3.1x for items with longer name.This is the new filename while this is the old one. I suspect a few my internal links will be broken if I don't leave the old files.
But apart from those two issues, arguably quite bad if a blog is popular but mine is not, everything seems to be working quite well.
Next step is to customise the styles, at the moment both blog have the standard styles that come with the default install. It actually looks better than my old one :)
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