Jason's Recent Weblog Entries

Bloxxsum and Mason Reach Accord
I have finished the integration of the weblogging tool I use (Bloxxsum) with the website templating tool I use (HTML::Mason). This means that the "category" and "permanent link" hyperlinks at the right side of each log entry will now work correctly.

I'm working on a short document to explain this integration, but the *very* short version is: 1) create a dhandler component in the part of your Mason components tree which will represent the weblog, 2) hack Bloxxsum to not require CGI.pm and to work when executed from a Mason component, 3) set MasonDeclineDirectories to 0 for the weblog's uri path or portion of your document root, and 4) modify your weblog dhandler to pass Bloxxsum (as PATH_INFO) whatever you get from $m->dhandler_arg().

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Bloxxsum and Mason Collide
I use a weblogging tool called Bloxxsum and this website is dynamically composed with the aid of HTML::Mason. Getting the two tools to work together has been challenging. Bloxxsum uses CGI.pm and CGI.pm is dying with an error when I call Bloxxum from a Mason component. For the moment I've mangled Bloxxsum to remove the dependency on CGI.pm, but that means you can only see the most recent entries in my weblog. You can't take advantage of its usual ability to show only specific categories of entry or to offer permanent hyperlinks to particular entries.

I hope to fix this soon

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