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Now with FOAF

May 9th, 2007 No Comments

Thanks to this entry from Aidan Finn, who incidentally is now working in the SFI funded DERI, I finally got around to putting up a simple FOAF file on my blog.
Adian’s post is pretty clear, but there are a few minor adjustments necessary to get it to work in Typo:

The foaf.rdf file should be created [...]

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Typo theme weirdness

May 9th, 2007 No Comments

Hmmm, it appears that the Ghostpaper theme that I’m using for this blog doesn’t show articles when you select them by their permalink.
I’ll have to investigate. In the meantime, I’m switching back to the default Azure theme.

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Upgrading typo

May 8th, 2007 No Comments

As I mentioned in a previous post, a new version of Typo is available. I upgraded this evening, and here’s the steps that I followed.

Check out the latest version from the SVN repository:

$ svn co http://svn.typosphere.org/typo/trunk typo-4.1.1

Copy over my old .htaccess file:

$ cp ~/typo-4.0.3/public/.htaccess ~/typo-4.1.1/public

Copy over my old database.yml:

$ cp ~/typo-4.0.3/config/database.yml ~/typo-4.1.1/config/database.yml

Update the database schema

mysql> [...]

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New version of Typo!

April 18th, 2007 3 Comments

I’ve just noticed that Typo, the Ruby-on-Rails blogging engine that powers this site has become active again, after what appears to be a long hiatus.

The developers have also released a new version – v4.1. As soon as I get a chance, I’ll have to install it, and check it out. They have also [...]

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RSS fixed

March 20th, 2006 No Comments

It appears that everything is now OK with the RSS feed. The problem was caused by moving between test and production databases. It appeared that the RSS cache was not properly flushed. I’m still not 100% sure what was going on, but at least it’s working OK again.

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