Make little buttons on the fly thanks to Adam Kalsey:

Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group

A nice guide to changing file permissions. Something I do so infrequently I cannot memorize.

chmod chown chgrp File Permissions

I purchased Ecto (formerly Kung Log) to make posting easier. It is kind of like Microsoft Word for blogging. You can bold and color text and even change the background color of text.

It didn’t work at first because an XML Parser was missing: /mt/extlib/XML/Parser/Lite.pm. I had just upgraded MovableType to version 3.14 from 2.6 and the new extlib did not contain this folder and file. I moved it from a back up copy and it worked. I got lucky to decipher this messy Server Error message, especially given Ecto 2 and MT 3.14 are so new there is nothing out there on Google about this:

Method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts produced a server error:

Application failed during request deserialization:

XML::Parser is not available and

Can’t locate XML/Parser/Lite.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

/Library/WebServer/Documents/mt/extlib –

/Library/WebServer/Documents/mt/lib –

/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi2level –

/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1 –

/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level –

/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl –

/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level –

/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Network/Library/Perl . –

at /Library/WebServer/Documents/mt/extlib/SOAP/Lite.pm –

line 1228.

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