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Just came across this link from John Dowdell. I’m adding it here so I remember to check it out. Looks like someone has experimented with rendering MXML into a UI on the client side, emulating Flex, without the server. Sounds like something that could be useful for Pachyderm…

I’ve been wanting to migrate my MovableType installation from the default BerkeleyDB to MySQL, in order to better facilitate backup/restore and data editing, as well as allowing the MT plugin to automatically close comments on posts after X many days.

I’ve been trying this in fits and starts for a couple of weeks, and keep getting bitten by what appears to be corrupt data in the BerkeleyDB database. The import process (mt-db2sql.cgi) barfs on the Comments, Entry, and Theme tables. The import is rather useless without these three types of data…

Anyone out there have any magic juju to get at the data in BerkeleyDB? I just need to poke around in the database and look for corruption or invalid characters that might prevent importing into MySQL.

I see that BerkeleyDB is used by a whole lotta different software, but I haven’t been able to find a generic client application ala CocoaMySQL (which rocks for connecting to MySQL).

I’ve just added some potentially cool functionality to CAREO. Every object in the repository now has a link to its own Wiki page, where a freeform discussion or whatever can take place.

I’m not sure if people would actually use it. I think it’s different enough from a traditional threaded discussion to warrant inclusion of both solutions.

In my head, I’m picturing the Wiki pages becoming more teaching-oriented than a threaded discussion could. Something more like the Wikipedia.

The cool thing about the wiki pages (apart from being more freeform) is the automatic cross-linking of pages. This could have the potential to make a richly networked set of resources wrapped around learning resources.

As an aside, I’m using phpWiki to provide the wiki functionality. I find it more full-featured than UseMod, and it supports creating wiki pages with full URLs as page names (that’s all this feature is based on).

Interesting list of suggestions for describing RSS for the layman in 10 words or less.

My personal fave: “Remember Pointcast? Kinda like that, only actually useful.”

Although, perhaps more appropriate and accurate may be: “Speed Reading the net.”

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