Soliciting Fame

I stayed up late to learn a bit about Apache and how to use mod_rewrite to give me some snazzy new URLs.

Thanks to cor for his tutorial, it definitely helped clarify the Apache mod_rewrite documentation.

Unfortunately I haven’t fully implemented them yet. Hopefully they will be done tonight.

Update 23:52:44 - The permalinks now work, check it out.

I finished my first iteration of an RSS feed. It was my first attempt and the only thing that does not validate is the date. But whatever, if Technorati doesn’t validate then I don’t have to.

After this I was trying to research how to send out XML-RPC pings to let blog directories know that I exist. Needless to say it’s a bit more complicated than I care to spend a large amount of time on. Eventually after reading lots of documentation I stumbled upon this article by Marjolein Hoekstra at MasterNewMedia. I decided to start using Ping-o-Matic instead of trying to automate it myself. It’s easy enough that I could even create a link in my admin section to automatically ping a bunch of directories at will.

In other news, Technorati went down just as I was fiddling with that. Techcrunch has a witty comment on it.

Dear WordPress,

I tried and tried to get started with you. We struggled and strove to come to an agreement. Alas you are too verbose and meaty for my needs.

I feel I must venture off on my own and write this from scratch.

Goodbye, WordPress, our love cannot be.