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Moved my blog

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I have moved my blog – once again I’m on Wordpress (after a few years).

Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds, as I am going to be writing about new experiences in model driven development soon.

Blog location:
http://www.hulshout.nl

RSS Feed:
http://www.hulshout.nl/?feed=rss2

The old blog (this one) will remain for a while to help people find their way to the new one.

Posted Oct 8, 01:14 PM by Angelo · Comment

Security - functionality tradeoff (3)

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In follow up to my previous post: not only were the feed links broken, James Hammond pointed out that the navigation links and article links were also broken. All is well now, as far as I can tell, but this was a leftover of the security problems I encountered a while back. A small fix in the settings of the HTTP server (related to URL rewriting) did the trick. No idea how I missed that, but another example of the delicate relation between functionality and security in the web publishing domain.

Which triggers another thing – I’ll have to get back to modeling and abstraction some time, and these seem interesting topics:

- Modeling security – Modeling variability

Any ideas on domain specific languages for those are welcome…

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Posted Oct 11, 12:32 AM by Angelo · Comment

How could I miss that?

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As Steven Kelly kindly pointed out, my RSS and Atom feeds were broken. No idea why, but they were….

Anyway they’re working again, if people have the right links that is….

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Posted Oct 9, 10:39 PM by Angelo · Comment

Updated blog template

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Tonight I installed the Slate template on this blog. It has a neat black and white look, a built-in contact form and an archive function.

A few things needs to be implemented at a later date:

  • I left the Search facility disabled, because the style sheet does not integrate it neatly into the look of the rest of the template.
  • Categories are not shown with the article
Apart from this, I need to fix the fact that comments are disabled by default if I post through ScribeFire (from within Firefox). The XML-RPC interface offered by TextPattern is a lot faster than the one I had with Serendipity, by the way.

Posted Aug 25, 01:08 AM by Angelo · Comment [2]

Switched to Textpattern

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Today I completed the switch to Textpattern for this blog. This engine is smaller (in footprint) than Serendipity and has less (to me) useless features. The site will change it’s look gradually over the next couple of weeks and months, moving away from the default style to my own personalised blog again.

Oh – and I did loose all comments in the conversion process, due to a stupid feature of Serendipity: a full RSS feed does not include comments. I still have the database though, so I might republish the more relevant ones later.

Posted Aug 22, 09:48 PM by Angelo · Comment

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