Jake's Radio 'Blog

Friday, July 25, 2003

Help with TrackBack and MovableType

We're working on getting TrackBack for Radio out the door, and have run into a problem. All the pieces seem to be working, except we haven't been able to get Radio to register incoming TrackBack pings from a MovableType site. This seems strange, since Manila is able to receive pings from MT just fine, and Radio is using basically the same code, but for some reason we're getting different results. When I try to ping my Radio site from my MT test site, I get an error saying that the ping failed, and to check the MT Activity Log, and while I see an error in the log, I don't understand what it means. Here's the error: Ping 'http://jake.userland.com/2003/07/24.html#a844' failed: HTTP error: 500 Can't locate HTML/HeadParser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /var/www/cgi-bin/extlib /var/www/cgi-bin/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) Any help from MT/TrackBack-savvy people would be much appreciated. Please send an email or leave a comment on this post if you have any ideas. Thanks! 15:53'50    comment []  trackback []

System Administrator Appreciation Day
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Kudos to all our sysadmins! 14:04'49    comment []  trackback []

Performance boost for Manila servers
We just released a pair of changes for Manila, which improve performance when updating a Manila site's home page. Dave had found that pinging Weblogs.Com was taking a long time. The changes just released make Manila send the pings to Weblogs.Com in a separate thread instead of waiting for a response. To get the changes, update Manila.root. 13:01'06    comment []  trackback []

Thursday, July 24, 2003

TrackBack for Radio -- beta 2
The second beta release of TrackBack support for Radio UserLand is ready. This version adds support for inbound TrackBack pings, various bug fixes, and a new prefs page for configuring the feature. If you're comfortable running beta software, please help us test by following the instructions in this message on the Radio-Dev mail list. 02:52'31    comment []  trackback []

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Testing TrackBack for Radio
This is a test post, but judging from the TrackBack links next to other posts on my home page, it looks like I've got TrackBack working for Radio. Please try pinging this post. I'd like to know that it's working for others as well. Thanks! 13:45'55    comment []  trackback []

Monday, July 21, 2003

Beta: Trackback for Radio UserLand
Following on the release of TrackBack for Manila, we're working on TrackBack support for Radio UserLand. If you're a Radio user who's comfortable running beta software, please help us test TrackBack support for Radio by following these instructions on the Radio-Dev mail list. 03:22'45    comment []  trackback []

Ping!
Testing outgoing TrackBack pings in Radio... 02:16'06    comment []  trackback []