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Coding Horror: Movable Type Since 2004

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Coding Horror: Movable Type Since 2004

When I started this blog, way back in the dark ages of 2004, the best of the options I had was Movable Type. A Perl and MySQL based blogging platform may seem like an odd choice for a Windows-centric developer like me, but I felt it was the best of

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Comment Spam

I like the way anyone can leave a comment regarding my posts – the only good discussion is a two-way discussion – but the comment spam is getting way out of hand (viagra, gambling, penis enlargement, ad nauseam). Thank goodness, then, for MT-blacklist, a simple anti-spam plugin for Movable Type. As promised,

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In the beginning, there was Movable Type

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In the beginning, there was Movable Type

Writing code all day sort of saps my will to come home and... write more code. With that in mind I set out to find existing blog software rather than rolling my own. Life’s just too short, and besides, never write what you can steal – right? I experimented with

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