scriptygoddess

Here's a nice Movable Type template trick originally posted at Wizbang. Show your posts' trackbacks inline with your posts. Why do this? Well it shows readers who is linking to your post, plus it provides Ecosystem and Technorati links to the sites that send you trackbacks.
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Here's a page I found that has some information on URL encoding (You know those "%20"s you see in URLs sometimes).

I could be wrong, but I think that Safari does not do this on the fly. I ran into a problem recently with a script I wrote that was relying on the browser to automatically encode the URL. IE did it just find – Safari choked. In any case, I'll be using the link above to manually encode the URL so Safari is happy.

I like to know some things about the people who visit my site. Most of the people are lurkers and don't leave comments so I've been developing some referer scripts. Some other statistics I've started to develop are Browser Agents, Operating Systems, Search Engines and Visitor Locations.

I thought some of these scripts might be useful to other people, so I'm trying to package them up into neat little functions that anybody with MySQL and PHP on their site can use them.

I've started writing a "tutorial" of sorts about how to gather information about the people visiting your web site. I just posted "Day 1." Day 2 may not necessarily follow tomorrow, but it will be coming soon.

With the new layout of my site, I wanted something other than the traditional mile long blogroll column in a sidebar. More specifically, I wanted to break my blogroll into columns. With a little code from blogrolling.com;, I was able to whip up a PHP script in no-time to do just that.
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So, Good News: People have been coming to your site and using your mt-search feature a lot! Bad News: They've been using it so much, and you've neglected it for so long that when you go to try and view your "Activity log" the page won't even load.

If you want to reset your activity log, but can't even get the page to load in order to do so, here is what you need to do…
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Issue has been (somewhat) resolved (but I still don't plan on buying from them again) (See bottom of post for resolution)

Breaking the format here a bit, because I wanted to give a quick little review of my experiences with buymusic.com.

I've seen an article on Wired.com about this (thanks ste) and it seems already people aren't thrilled with the licensing format that is in place on these music files. I can almost accept the fact that you'll have to jump through hoops if you want to be able to download your music. Look, the music industry is whining that they're losing money thanks to mp3s – the public wants to be able to get their music their way (which right now is digitally) – I can agree to compromise.

What I can't agree to is bad customer service. If they're going to have these tight restrictions about the files – they're also going to have to be flexible when things don't go perfectly – as we all know can happen when you're working with computers.

Here's my personal experience with them…
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Inspired by Adam Kalsey's SimpleTrack, I wrote my own PHP script called Manual Trackback. (To be honest, I was chicken to ask Mr. Kalsey for a copy of his script.) This script allows an author of a weblog that does not support trackback to manually trackback to my weblog. All this weblog author needs to supply is the title of his or her weblog, the title or date of his or her weblog entry, the entry's URL, and an excerpt. That's it.
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When googlebot comes (if it does!) to pages that contains this code, you get an e-mail sent to the address you specify.
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Recently I added a Slashdot like moderation system to my home made weblogging software. The motivation was to add a simple way of offering your opinion on an entry without requiring a comment when you don't have one. This grabbed the attention of Etan over at http://www.toomuchsexy.org/; who desired an implementation for Movable Type. After some work last night and this morning I believe I have perfected the Movable Type implementation.
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Some links to throw your way.

Former scriptygoddess, Lynda's: php woe (php tutorials) [link found by donna]

Blue Vertigo – massive amounts of web design resource links. [link found by Jennifer]