Aristotle's Blog

The new version of LifeType has a very nice anti-spam system to control the flood of comment spam.   I've been watching how the system labels incoming spam after the upgrade and am impressed that it has not incorrectly labeled a legit message.    Sweet.   Due to the huge number of spam attempts that come in every day I've configured the system to delete any comments it thinks is spam.   There is no reason that any person should have to wade through 50 fake comments of junk.

 Let me know if you get any reports of legit messages being labeled as Spam and deleted by the system.

 Cheers!

I updated the main page on Aristotle.oneonta.edu to include more links to specific documentation and web forms for requesting accounts and spaces on Aristotle. I think it will be easier to update and deliver content that is specific for each application installed on the system. I hope it is anyway, let me know if it is not working for ya.

BTW, I'm testing out Windows Live Writer (WLW) again and am still amazed at the amount of power and simplicity built into the app. I'm also toying around with some plugins. The screen shot above was grabbed with LiveWriter OnScreen. It makes the capture of screen images pretty easy. So far I like it though I'm not sure how to add an image to an open Draft in WLW. I tried to copy and paste but WLW kept giving me errors so I ended up setting the save path in OnScreen and Inserting the image via WLW. Buggy a bit but not to bad as long as there is a workflow.

If you haven't noticed I really like WLW. Download it, configure it, and Blog on Aristotle.oneonta.edu. It's too easy.

The Summary page got a huge overhaul in the new version of LifeType. Check it out it is neato.

The Posts, Blogs, and Users. And of course there is RSS for the Blogs list and Posts list. There are now site wide categories for blogs as well with their own feeds.

Lastly I've been going through the templates and updating what I see is broken. If you notice something that just doesn't feel right it is most likely an incompatibility with an older templates. Drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers!

Justin

You may have noticed some changes around here lately.   I have update the site to the newest version of LifeType and redone most of the templates.   It has been a bumpy ride, but a good one. 

• Bad Behavior Anti-Spam Integrated into the core (http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/)
• Better/Faster Integrated Search
• Support for paged comment pages
• Mass-Editing of Posts, Comments, Trackbacks, Blogs and Users
• Better integrated WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/)
• Better handling of comments and trackbacks
• Better dashboard
• Self-Creation of Blogs for users with existing accounts
• Easier upload of resources into Albums from the "New Post" and "Edit Post" pages
• Global blog categories
• Great new templates (http://wiki.lifetype.net/index.php/Templates)
• Lots More!

I'll have more info soon.

Moodle has been updated to the newest vesion to fix some security issues that were reported. The update seems to have gone well. Nothing to see here please move along.

On the Coppermine front I updated to the lastest and greatest and added some modifications to give us more granularity in permissions. The default setup of Coppermine does not allow for instance the ability to delegate upload or approve permissions to a group of users. We had a request from a faculty member to give a student the ability to upload images into one of their albums. This seemed to me to be an usefull and necessary feature, so I found a mod that did this for us. We mod has been installed and I'm monitoring the system to make sure that it just works.

I hope to have some docs soon on how to request a moderator for your albums, and some pretty screen shots of how to use the new features.

Enjoy,

Justin

I just download the new beta of Windows Live Writer.   So far it seems to have the same familiar good looks and charm.   I love this app!

New Stuff

Tagging support
Support for Blogger Beta
Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
Improved startup performance
Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
Custom date support for Community Server
Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
Add png to insert image dialog file type filter
More robust image posting to Live Spaces
Improved style detection for blogs 
Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts

Familiar Look...

New Insert Tags feature...still looking around but it looks like some nice additions to an already great application.