Byrne Reese's dashboard

Ben - I wanted to thank you very much for implementing profile feeds like my new one:

http://hooraymovies.com/watchers/Byrn...

Awesome.

I am integrating this into Movable Type (because I can), but had one more feature request:

I would like each movie I am watching to be broken out as a separate item in my feed. That way I can make it show up in my action stream like the other items that appear there:

Thanks for your help. And now for a follow up feature request. :-D

I would love it if somehow I could have a more URL friendly profile. I want the profile to be public so that I can easily and programmatically extract data from it for syndication across Movable Type powered blogs.

Can you confirm that the /path/to/cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/ErrorHandler.pm file is there? Can you confirm that the FTP process completed successfully?

If not, many FTP clients will allow you to upload a zip file and then unzip it on the server. That might be a more successful way to upload MT because it has so many files.

Philipp - I am sorry you are having difficulty. Making MT easier to install is one our biggest priorities. Cold comfort for you unfortunately. Let me see if I can help:

1) I personally prefer to serve everything out of a single directory, like an "mt" directory, or from a modified "cgi-bin" directory that has a modified policy from the default apache one. For you though, given that you don't have a cgi-bin directory from what I can gather, I would place all of the MT application files into www/mt/ and all your static files into www/mt/mt-static.

Now we need to tell Apache how to treat this directory. I would do that with an .htaccess file. I think this article is helpful:

http://apache.active-venture.com/cgi-...

2) A common cause of permissions problems is SELinux which is an optional mode to run Linux under. This established a very rigid set of rules for the system designed to make it more secure. It is VERY strict in regards to CGI specifically. Ask your hosting provider if SELinux is enabled on your system.

3) Check out the config directive: SendmailPath which can be placed in your mt-config.cgi file and can point to your sendmail program.

4-5) Movable Type the app can be served out of one directory and publish to any other directory, assuming those directories grant the web server write access to them. Check to see if their is a 'www' or 'apache' group on your system and assign that group to the directories you want to write to. Then give that group write permission (chmod g+w) on those directories.

Contact your hosting provider for help. This should all be very standard stuff for them.

Todd - I wanted to thank you for all your help. I am well on my way to getting Fluid working with Movable Type. It is something I would like to make core to the app in future versions. Plus, I will be able to give people preferences as to what they want their dock badge to be, and whether or not they want growls for.

Thank you!!

Ok - I think that I finally get it. I can't believe it took me this long.

a) I have a web app.
b) on each page of this web site, presumably I have javascript that is loaded and executed
c) if in that javascript I include the encapsulated code "if (window.fluid)" then I can make calls to my fluid app locally: growls, etc.

That javascript code will be responsible for setting timers etc to make sure that it sleeps and periodically checks for new updates (by ajax I am guessing).

If I click on a link in my fluid app, then the resulting page will also load and execute the same javascript alluded to above, starting the process over.

Do I understand this system yet?

More specifically I see this: "Fluid JavaScript API" on the developer page - I get that. But where do I serve this javascript from inside my app? How does fluid know how to render the dock icon?

I am thinking #1 will be my best bet. Sounds easiest given the software is open source etc.

I definitely have some reading to do though. I am still just stumbling along, and I appreciate your hand holding. So my last question is, what doc will tell me step-by-step how to support growls and dock badges directly into my app? Where do I get started?

Thank you Todd! I looked at the "Developer" page - my trouble is that I am very new to developing Mac OS X software. To be truthful, I am guessing "growling" is what I want to do - the idea of the icon jumping for example is what I discern to be a "growl" of sorts.

I found another topic on getsatisfaction which I found useful, which pointed me to this sample code:

http://getsatisfaction.com/hahlo/topi...

Assuming I can just hack this to talk to my service (in this case Movable Type and TypePad) what would be helpful is knowing: where do I install this user script? How do I package it such that people wanting to build a fluid app from MT will download it or make use of it automatically or more easily? Am I making sense?

Once I could up all the JS, how do I package it and distribute it?

Or do I need to RFTM?

From the Preferences menu select "General". Then on the resulting page, select "Entry" from the left hand menu.

Here is the screenshot I was telling you about....

Movable Type 4.0 folded into the main a product a plugin called "Naughty Word Characters." This plugin/feature will automatically replace MS Word smart quotes and so forth with valid HTML characters. A screenshot below shows you what you should look for on the Entry Preferences area of MT.