haggisbot has been patrolling the Boston Glob chatroom since June 1st, 2008. Soon, you’ll be able to have a haggisbot in your own IRC chatroom!
haggisbot 0.6 is the current version on the Boston Glob chatroom, but the code is being completely redone for version 1.0.
If you would like to help with the development of this [...]
Sir Soybean and I have been working on making this blog’s theme look pretty. What you may not know yet is in three weeks, you’ll be able to use it with your blog! Unfortunately, the template will require WordPress 2.5, so you’ll have to either wait until it is released or download an unstable copy via the subversion repository. But you can, however, download a copy from the LlamaSlayers subversion repository, or a stable release from our Google code project.
Please, if you find out anything wrong with the template or want us to add new features, let us know.
Of course, since WP2.5 hasn’t been released yet, this blog isn’t running on the new version that you can download at the Google code
Before I start this blog post, I want to say something completely un-related: I switched to PHP5 today.
Ok, so I tested out a new contact form that I’m building and… 15 minutes later I get the email in my inbox. Which means that if I’d used Google’s GMail servers to send messages, I’d be saving 15 minutes of (what I hope is) waiting in a line for my message to be sent.
I was searching around for a way to use SMTP with my PHP configuration, and I found this. From what I have figured out so far, it’s the perfect addition to my contact form. I was using the contact form by Nate Dentzau, but with this new PHP class
Ok, so there are two new writers on The Daily Llama, BloggerGirl667 and Dance698548. You can see that “Dance” has already had some activity on the forums, “BloggerGirl” is (so far) nowhere to be found.
Another new thing since the blog moving to the new server is LlamaMail. It’s an email system, powered by Google. It can only be used by a selected few, those with staff positions on LlamaSlayers.
You can set up your llamamail in a special configuration that I use by using some simple instructions.
One more thing: The contest. If you think that you’re an artist or just someone who wants to get their name on the front page of a website for designing it
I’m notified on every 404 error via an rss feed by my blog. When googlebot started indexing non-existant pages, I got spammed. The feature that I installed to be a notification of broken links turned into a way that googlebot (unknowingly) spammed me!
You can see this WordPress.org support forums topic for the way that I solved the problem.
~Ben