July 30, 2002
TrackForward
Tonight's second plugin from the Ulrich Plugin Foundry is an interesting twist on TrackBack: TrackForward is a plugin to list the TrackBack urls that an entry pinged, for easy gathering by the next person to come into a conversation. This entry is pinging his, so the TrackBack popup will have an example of TrackForward in action.
Posted at 12:31 AM | Email | TrackBack URL
Oh, neat. But I've already fried my categories with TrackBack - I'm afraid my journal may end up translated to Tagalog if I tried to install this. So I'll just admire. From afar.
Posted by: Shannon on July 30, 2002 10:47 AM | Reply to thisAnd now, in a double dose of TrackForward in action, I've done two things. (1) I'm using the principles of...
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Posted on: Among Other Things on July 30, 2002 12:50 PM
Ah, that's ok. While I'd love to see more people implement TF, it's really useful for people like me who ping several entries with one go. Now, if you fall into that category.... ;)
Posted by: Phil Ulrich on July 30, 2002 01:22 PM | Reply to thisAbsolutely not. I ping very rarely.
And besides: there's no one left to ping when you're a raging, egomaniacal rock star. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Shannon on July 30, 2002 01:56 PM | Reply to thisExcept other raging, egomaniacal rock stars. Who probably take offense at your interpretation of their single unique thought process. And vice versa. ;)
Posted by: Phil Ulrich on July 30, 2002 09:08 PM | Reply to thisFollowing Phil 2 referring to me as the "Ulrich Plugin Foundry", I decided to do just that--set up a single...
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Posted on: Among Other Things on July 30, 2002 10:15 PM
Goddamn right. You see, what I think... what were you saying?
Posted by: Shannon on July 31, 2002 06:20 PM | Reply to thisOh, and pretend I say some geeky stuff. This is Phil's place, after all.
Posted by: Shannon on July 31, 2002 06:21 PM | Reply to thisPhil 2. I just call him Phil 2. Of course, this is because my ego refuses to accept that I could be Phil 2. I'm Phil 1, because I knew me first. ;)
Posted by: Phil Ulrich on July 31, 2002 08:48 PM | Reply to thisTwo last word junkies 'round these parts can't be a good thing.
Posted by: Shannon on August 1, 2002 04:53 PM | Reply to thisGreat, now I have to start versioning the thing. ;) It seems some people were getting strange little hash errors...
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Posted on: Among Other Things on August 1, 2002 08:05 PM
I'm glad we can see eye-to-eye on something.
Posted by: Phil Ulrich on August 2, 2002 06:59 AM | Reply to thisTrackForward ist ein MT-Plugin, dass eine Liste der Ping-URL's generiert und in das Trackbackfenster einfügt. Dadurch kann ein neu in die Diskussion Einsteigender (!wordcreation!) gleich alle ver'track'ten Seiten anpingen. Mehr dazu auf interalia.org M......
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Posted on: nico | couchblog on August 2, 2002 11:40 PM
Wow. Lots of stuff going on. Its been a while since I've really followed all the goings on with Gnus,...
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Posted on: Thought Envelope on August 13, 2002 02:11 PM
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