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Essential Blogging

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
1
in section "Developing Movable Type Plug-ins" under Container Tags

Code incorrectly assumes that the return value will be the result of the content text concatenation. Needs to follow best practices and do an explicit return.

sub loop {
my $ctx = shift;
my $args = shift;
my $content = '';
my $builder = $ctx->stash('builder');
my $tokens = $ctx->stash('tokens');
for my $i(1..$args->{loops}) {
$ctx->stash('loop_index',$i);
my $out = $builder->build($ctx, $tokens);
$content .= $out;
}
return $content; # explict return
}

 wjgeorge  Mar 01, 2011 
Printed Page 17
caption on figure 1-20

Refers to "Doc Searls's Radio blog". The screen shot is from Doc's Manila weblog,
which he might edit from Radio (not sure).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 19
4th paragraph

UserLand Spftware should be UserLand Software. News-organs might also need to be
changed to news-organizations (unless Cory has something he's not telling us...).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 27
3rd paragraph

While the URL in the dialog is (correctly) /api/RPC2, in the text it is repeatedly
stated as /api/RPC2/ (with trailing slash). This is incorrect, and probably will not
work.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 64
2nd paragraph

Text states "Your screen should look like Figure 4-1". Fig. 4-1 has a taskbar
*filled* with icons. I hope my machine won't look like that! None of the other
screenshots contain the task bar. Furthermore, most other screenshots in the book are
from Mac OS X, whereas these are from Windows. Sort of confusing.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 81
first heading

Heading is "Blogdex or Navigtion Links". Rest of book refers to "blogroll".

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 83
figure 4-1

Table is aligned so that it seems that the advantages and disadvantages go together
in a table, but they are really two separate lists. Even where they do go together
(Server farm is managed vs. No control over server farm), the two are not lined up.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 180
more link problems with the Essential Blogging excerpt.

> >In the final section of the chapter, "Online Resources for
> >Advanced Users," the following links are broken:
> >
> >http://backend.userland.com/rss092/

Worked fine for me.

> >http://www.xml-rpc.com

Should be http://www.xmlrpc.com/

> >http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi/

Worked for me without the slash, redirected when the slash was on
there.

> >And the following links are incorrect, neither should have a
> >trailing slash:
> >
> >http://radio.userland.com/directory/6742/developers/
> >http://ruminations.weblogger.com/directory/143/

 Anonymous