Brent Simmons Interview, Geo::Sketch, DST and MT
John Gruber of Daring Fireball posts an excellent interview he conducted with Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software, maker of NetNewsWire.
Geo::Sketch
Geo::Sketch powers "simple geographic animations on the web." The accompanying Movable Type plugin could be put to interesting use--a little map for each entry to show where you're posting from, perhaps?
Daylight Saving and MovableType
Yoz Grahame gives a really great analysis of the difficulties in handling daylight saving time and time zones. We may switch over to using the DateTime perl modules in a future Movable Type release, because they provide for much more fine-grained control over the time zone setting.
A spam fighter's work is never done
"Suresh Ramasubramanian's job is to stop junk e-mail from ever getting to your in box. But for every spammer he blocks, a dozen more rise up."
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