Anthony Rants

I finally worked out all the kinks with the Trackback module and have enabled it. Trackback enables you to make comments on other people's blogs via posts on your own blog, an automated way to let someone know you're talking about them.

For the second time coding for my site, I've had to code around something silly Matt did (The first time was some silly way he managed to break RSS for his site). This time it was the fact that he broke Permlinks in WordPress. His hack for paging (via the paged= variable in the URI) breaks the idea of permlinks, so when my script was trying to autodiscover the url to trackback to his entries, it was failing because it was looking for associated RDF code that mentioned index?paged=2. Unfortunately his RDF code still follows the WordPress default of ?p=2. I made a work around for now, but maybe he should consider changing his paging code to actually use the permlinks feature in WP :-)

When I get the stuff setup to accept Trackback pings, I'll post the URL or details or whatever. For now I've stayed up way too late to make it to work tomorrow.