evan_tech -- msn blogs

12:00 pm, 2 Dec 04

msn blogs

Screw this LiveJournal crap, I'm gonna start using my MSN blog exclusively! I'll see y'all over there! Be sure to "trackback" me!

PS: be sure to check out my latest post. You can get to it via this simple URL: http://spaces.msn.com/members/em/Blog/cns!1ptK2WMGMmsYivvNEivyTUbQ!105.entry

evan	Aw, damn, my fancy evan_tech LJ style doesn't show my "Current mood: catty". Oh well.
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mart	It also doesn't show sensible titles for each page. `Page::view_title()` will give you a sensible title for any page.
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evan	Thanks! And hey, maybe I can ask you about my other problem: I want "edit" links on the lastn page, but only if I have editing access. But viewer_is_owner() returns false for me on the front page of evan_tech. I need a per-entry viewer_is_owner or something...
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mart

The Entry::get_link method (or something like that; too lazy to look it up to confirm!) allows you to get at the buttons that would make up the blue standout bar on the conventional comments page. The usual thing to do is to iterate over the array of possible items and pull each out in turn, but you can also just ask directly for the “edit_entry” link if you want. It'll be null if it's non-applicable, so you can do if (defined($whatever)) { "...$whatever.url..."; } or something similar.

There really isn't much use for viewer_is_owner() on LiveJournal. I think it was a carry-over from FotoBilder which has a much simpler model for whether given links are displayed.

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supersat	A lot of styles use viewer_is_owner to show the edit links only when appropriate. Other people include private links (to abuse tools, for example) in their styles, and have them only show up when they are the ones looking at it. Still others use it to hide hit counters so they don't count themselves, etc.
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myoldself Bonus points for the fact that the MSN blog took quite a bit longer to load than the comments page for this entry.

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zezu what twisted variant of base64 are they using I wonder?

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- zezu looks like theirs is better for urls, since some base64 chars need to be %nybblenybbled.
  
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supersat What?! They aren't using GUIDs in the URL?! SHOCKING!

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midendian	Haha. It doubled my comment, and I didn't even click twice. Though I thought about it, since it's so goddamn slow! It might actually be slower than the first week of orkut.
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mahlon Blog? What blog? That's an MSN "space".

I want a "space"!!!

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bostonsteamer I was going to write pretty much the same catty LJ post linking to an ironic MSN Space post, so thanks for doing the catty work for me.

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nibot	Unlike rival services such as Blogger, MSN Spaces forces new users to grant Microsoft permission to "use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat" their blog postings. yeah, right.
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legolas That might be a little wide, but on the other hand lj are holding off rss feeds of blogs based on the fact that the lj terms on speak of web publishing.

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myoldself	Bonus points for the fact that the MSN blog took quite a bit longer to load than the comments page for this entry.
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zezu	what twisted variant of base64 are they using I wonder?
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zezu	looks like theirs is better for urls, since some base64 chars need to be %nybblenybbled.
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supersat	What?! They aren't using GUIDs in the URL?! SHOCKING!
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mahlon	Blog? What blog? That's an MSN "space". I want a "space"!!!
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bostonsteamer	I was going to write pretty much the same catty LJ post linking to an ironic MSN Space post, so thanks for doing the catty work for me.
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legolas	That might be a little wide, but on the other hand lj are holding off rss feeds of blogs based on the fact that the lj terms on speak of web publishing.
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