Saturday, February 2, 2002

I am playing around with my categories this afternoon. I was having some trouble with broken links on my radio.weblogs site. I had some upper case/lower case differences in how had things listed. Fixed these by diving into the weblogData and making everything simpler and consistent. Now I have just updated the category names so that they include the website name when posted to weblogs.com. Is this going to screw things up again? I don't think that I have a clear understanding of what categories are and what you can do with them. Time to do some more digging. 4:35:20 PM     Comment []

Yes, it is easy to write an email address encoder in Radio. It took me about 15 minutes to write with most of that time figuring out which verbs to use to convert a char to its ascii value. I have uploaded the script as a gem. You can download it here. I wrote the script in the workspace. I am not clear yet on where macro scripts should be placed in Radio 8. But you can install the script at workspace.spamEncoder and then call from your website using that address. Here is an example of the script in action: <%workspace.spamEncoder("info@es-designs.com")%> generates: info@es-designs.com View the source code for this page to see how the email link is encoded. 2:58:27 PM     Comment []

SpamKiller is a free email address-encoding utility for Mac OS X and classic Mac OS from RAILhead Design. Once encoded, the address can be placed on a web page and will be ignored by most "harvesting" spiders. Version 1.1 adds a popup menu to the main window for selecting an encoding method, along with other enhancements. [MacInTouch] This is a pretty cool little utility that converts the characters in email addresses into a the corresponding ascii code entities (ie a becomes a). Now it should be pretty easy to write a macro that does that same thing. Has anyone done this already? 11:03:26 AM     Comment []