A Summer Internship
Posted June 11, 2010 @ 6:41 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS — 6 
They say that you should try to hire people who are smarter than you are, so please take a moment to congratulate me because I’ve done that very thing. Between the end of this month and half-way through August, the talented Bruce W. Spang—‘W’ for Win, probably not his real middle name—will be the smartest person working at Boston Web Studio. As magical as that may be, I regret to inform you myself that it’s not a permanent position, something about Bruce finishing high school, so the increase in office-awesomeness will be but a moment in the company’s lifetime.
ExpressionEngine’s Deny Duplicate Data Preference
Posted March 10, 2010 @ 10:51 PM, by Marc, in Client, ExpressionEngine — 1
There’s a preference in the ExpressionEngine control panel called Deny Duplicate Data which, if turned on, will instruct EE to check if new content submitted by a user is a duplicate of existing content already in the database. It’s a moderately helpful measure in the fight against comment spam, but it recently was the cause of a minor client work-flow issue and it succeeded in confusing me for about fifteen minutes before I finally realized that this preference was the culprit. I thought it would be wise to write this blog entry in case it happens to me again, or if anyone is searching the web looking for a solution to this same dilemma.
One RSS Feed from Multiple Weblogs or Channels
Posted March 10, 2010 @ 12:49 PM, by Marc, in BWS, ExpressionEngine — 2
Every ExpressionEngine installation comes with an RSS template that can be used to publish content from any one of the website’s individual weblogs/channels. By default, this RSS template can only publish the contents of a single weblog/channel. For example, if ExpressionEngine is setup with a Company News weblog/channel and an Upcoming Events weblog/channel, and the goal is to offer content from both via RSS, one would have to provide visitors with two separate feeds using two separate instances of the RSS template.
There are plenty of cases where providing more than one RSS feed is ideal, as it’s common for a website to offer numerous types of content that do not overlap. Look no further than Digg (60 RSS feeds as of this writing) and The New York Times (175 RSS feeds as of this writing) for typical examples. However, what if one does wish to provide a single RSS feed that has content from more than one weblog/channel? Read on…
