PowerBlogs.Com Development

Google has created a way to fight comment spam. It involves adding rel="nofollow" to all of the links in comments, trackbacks, readership reports, etc. I've updated the Powerblogs software to make use of this tag to help fight trackback spam.

The order that saved-for-later posts display in on the page for choosing them now groups the posts scheduled for publishing first, and orders them by date. This was suggested by the EclectEcon.

(The off-site report generation is coming along, and I hope to have it up and running by this monday.)

There is now a convenient interface (in the "Edit a Saved Post" page) for rescheduling posts which have been scheduled to be published. It uses AJAX, so it requires Firefox 1.0.7, Internet Explorer 6, Safari 2.0.2, Opera 8.5 or other ECMA-262 compatible browsers.

There are still a few shortcomings in the interface, mostly as a result of some highly technical (and subtle) javascript execution-context details, and I hope to work them out soon. It shouldn't be a significant issue, though. Mostly it just means that the rescheduling won't get saved on the server if you close the rescheduling window too quickly. I'll eventually figured out a way around this, but it shouldn't be a problem for many people anyway.