March 2008

Poll-n-Ping now reaches 18 blog search services — surpassing Ping-o-Matic's 16 — and automatically monitors your feed so you never have to manually ping again.

Poll-n-Ping now automatically pings 15 blog search services. Register your blog and never manually ping again — new services are added regularly for free.

Bundle and minify script.aculo.us with Prototype into one file using YUI Compressor, reducing 244 KB to 41 KB on the wire with gzip — an 83% bandwidth saving.

GNOME 2.22 arrives with GVFS virtual filesystem and PolicyKit, and will ship in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 — a big architectural step forward for the Linux desktop.

Poll-n-Ping is a free automated blog pinging service that monitors your feed for changes and pings blog search directories automatically — no manual effort needed.

A Drupal 5 patch that extends the advanced search block to filter nodes by author name and creation date — useful for sites with thousands of nodes.

Blogger served 502 errors for over 15 minutes affecting multiple blogs — a look at what might have caused the outage and why self-hosting starts to seem appealing.

A Drupal patch that adds input format selection to the Premium module so the body text shown to non-authenticated users can use filters, tokens, and dynamic links.

The Drupal Atom module generates invalid XML when the site title contains an ampersand — here's the patch that escapes title and subtitle fields correctly.