Freely configurable automatic raplacement of textual emoticons by image tags. AutoSmileys is an easy to use and highly customizable macro environment for Movable Type. It will replace self-defined text abbreviations by image tags when your site is published or dynamically rendered, respectively. It may be applied either within entries, comments, pages, or any other part of your site.  → read more …

Assumed you wish to match a large wordlist against a huge chunk of text. As a small test case, let for, far, bar, foo, boofaz, boofar, boof, faz, foobaz, foobars, boofar be your wordlist. Now, you may apply the according regualar expression: But which way a regex engine would implement the assignment?  → read more …

While customizing my mt blog, I was wondering how to abbreviate long entry titles on particular places in a nice way. Well, mt provides template tag modifiers such as trim-to, but my aim was to do it more nicely, i.e. replacing anything behind the first three (or any other maximum) words by an ellipsis.  → read more …