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I loves me some LOLCats, and I can't wait for IronMan.

For a few weeks now, I've been playing with Movable Type, porting my as-yet-unfinished Friends plugin from WordPress to MT. I've been interested in what's happening in the MT development world for a while now, and this seemed a good way to find out.

In which the author waxes cranky over Michigan and Florida.

Some very rambly off-the-cuff commentary on the bruhaha between some Six Apart folks and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg.

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Some very rambly off-the-cuff commentary on the bruhaha between some Six Apart folks and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg.

Drivetime Debrief - Slap Fight!

• Six Apart

• Anil Dash

• Matt Mullenweg

• Automattic

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Some very rambly off-the-cuff commentary on the bruhaha between some Six Apart folks and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg.

Drivetime Debrief - Slap Fight!

• Six Apart

• Anil Dash

• Matt Mullenweg

• Automattic

I recorded another short (6 min) podcast today on the way home from work, blathering on about Action Streams, Stephen Weber, DiSo, Movable Type, and WordPress!

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I recorded another short (6 min) podcast today on the way home from work, blathering on about Action Streams, Stephen Weber, DiSo, Movable Type, and WordPress!

Drivetime Debrief - Aaand, Action!

In another frenetic burst of coding, the prolific Stephen Weber ported MT's Action Streams plugin to PHP, then to Wordpress. Examples:

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Yesterday Google released a new contacts API, which has social network operators scrambling to implement.

>Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don't have to!

>We're happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.

This is exciting news for those of us working on DiSo -- it would be great to give users the option to add their Google Contacts to their friends. Well, at least until I started reading the Developer's Guide. The API (like many of Google's APIs) requires AuthSub support in the client, which requires registering your site with Google:

>Note: You must register your application domain with Google before you can use AuthSub with the Contacts Data API.

It's my understanding that this means that any blog owner who wanted to use a hypothetical DiSo Google contacts import would have to have registered their site with Google, which sounds like a huge roadblock for us. Am I reading this wrong? I'd love to hear from other developers on this.

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Yesterday Google released a new contacts API, which has social network operators scrambling to implement.

Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don't have to!

We're happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.

This is exciting news for those of us working on DiSo -- it would be great to give users the option to add their Google Contacts to their friends. Well, at least until I started reading the Developer's Guide. The API (like many of Google's APIs) requires AuthSub support in the client, which requires registering your site with Google:

Note: You must register your application domain with Google before you can use AuthSub with the Contacts Data API.

It's my understanding that this means that any blog owner who wanted to use a hypothetical DiSo Google contacts import would have to have registered their site with Google, which sounds like a huge roadblock for us. Am I reading this wrong? I'd love to hear from other developers on this.

So far, Apple's doing all the right things with the new iPhone SDK. AWESOME.

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Recorded another quick podcast on the way to church this morning, on learning how to get stuff out of MT and onto a page...

Drivetime Debrief - Getting the stuff from the place to the thing.

Recorded another quick podcast on the way to church this morning, on learning how to get stuff out of MT and onto a page...

My grandfather, Marion Richard Ivy, veteran of 3 wars (World War II, Korea, and Vietnam), retired teacher, master woodworker, hobbyist gemcutter, man-about-the-house, and all-around awesome grandpa, turns 21 today! Someone get that man a beer! :-)