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This weblog uses Python Community Server (PyCS), an open-source version of the Radio Community Server, to host visitor comments and trackback links. It's a reliable service that adds a few new features beyond the ones offered by UserLand's comment server: Comment deletion, RSS feeds for every discussion, and the ability to download all of your comments as a single file in RSS 2.0 format. If you inspect the comment and trackback links on this site, you'll see that they appear to be hosted here ... (
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Peter Backx has created a UserTalk script that displays random pictures on the homepage of his Radio UserLand weblog. The script's a nice, straightforward example of how to use UserTalk to read XML data from a file and do something with it. I have modified his script to create a random text link that can be displayed on any Radio Web page. The link will be updated each time the page is republished, displaying a different link from an XML file called randomtextlinks.xml Here's the script: on ... (
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On the West Highland Way weblog, James McReady is counting down the days until a sponsored charity walk is talking place. Right now, he's providing the countdown manually by editing the text himself. I wrote a short UserTalk script that can count down to any specified date in the future: on daysUntilEvent (targetDay, targetMonth, targetYear, targetHour=0, targetMinute=0, targetSecond=0) { «Created 2/21/03; 9:51:05 AM by RC local (day, month, year, hour, minute, second, target, ... (
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Scott Johnson is running out of space on Radio UserLand's server, which creates a dilemma because UserLand doesn't offer a way to buy additional space. Once the 20MB limit is reached, most users delete files or move to another server. Another way to save space on your weblog: Set up Radio to publish some of your files to a second server. If you have an FTP account on another server, it's easy to publish a folder to that server. The steps: 1. Create a new folder in your /Radio Userland/www ... (
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