DISQUS

Not to disrespect or anything, but Google has banned sites from ever appearing in their listings again for "cloaking", that is, providing different information to the Googlebot than a human with a browser gets.

I doubt they'd do it to your site because you're doing something cool with it, rather than trying to defraud them, but it's the same idea I think.

That's terrible.

I can't believe it.

That's the easy part, Elliott.

I mean, incorporating an RSS feed from another blog into a header-style section like your "Today's Links"

I'll look around some more, I think. I've written an RSS parser in PHP for Audioscrobbler and somewhat integrated it into Wordpress, I could probably roll my own plugin if I had to.

Speaking of syndication, I haven't been able to find any good way to syndicate sites using WordPress. Any ideas?

I'm planning to apply for a software patent on something I've come up with, and don't see any existing patents or patents pending related to it.

Some, I agree, are totally bogus. Others, however, can be very unique and innovative.

I got that exact same message.

It was almost scary, since it was so on-topic to what I was writing about on Trendyblog.

I get about 20 a day of those sorts of things...

That doesn't seem like a big deal to me, honestly.

So I probably shouldn't have opened all those .ZIPs to see what the mail headers and errors they told me I had, huh.

Word tells you the grade level it's at?

I've never heard of that before.

This doesn't surprise me in the least.

One issue I have with Trackback is that, while it's a decent idea, it doesn't ever seem to be correctly implemented anywhere.

Whenever I send trackbacks from Wordpress, I always get the comment in the receiving blog looking something like

Trendyblog >> Blog Archives >> March >> Post Title
[...] because the result of these activities tends towards a feeling of [...]

the point that example is making is that it adds absolutely no useful information to the discussion, other than a link, and an incomprehensible, seemingly-randomly-selected blurb of text.

I've even tried filling in the exerpt field, and it doesn't actually use it, it still sends a snippit that's nonsensical.

Maybe I'll get around to modifying Wordpress' code to use the exerpt field, but I don't think I should have to do that -- it should follow some logical behavior in the first place.

I prefer server-side because I fundamentally don't trust clients.

But thats not to say your way isn't good, too.

I'd write a server-side query where it writes to a DIV which is already positioned where it should be on the screen, with the actual queries at the very end of code's execution, with errors supressed by the @ operator.

That way, if the queries failed, they'd not generate messages, and the bulk of the page would have already been pushed out to the client anyway.

(Aside: I despise the acronym AJAX)

There's no need for Javascript at all.

XMLRPC queries would suffice.

I think Netbeans comes with a Swing GUI builder?

Granted, I hate Netbeans because it is itself written in Swing, and I hate the entire Swing/AWT kit with my whole being, but there are GUI GUI builders out there, for Java.