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BlogCFC ping list and timeouts

Having decided to promote my blog as much as possible, I decided one of the best ways was to ping as many blog servers as possible.

Blogcfc has (in its settings option in the admin) an option to list ping urls. When you submit a new entry to your blog, these servers are contacted automatically telling them you have a new entry.

So, on searching google for a good list of addresses to ping I came across: 56 RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping . I have included the list in the download link incase it disappears.

Problems can arise in blogcfc with so many urls being submitted. If you're running blogcfc under coldfusion 8 you should be okay, as Ray coded the ping function to use threads. However if your not on Coldfusion 8 then you'll need to add a timeout setting in "ping7.cfc" (which can be found in "/org/camden/blog". This is because the cfloop may timeout.

Add the following line just above the cfloop:

<cfsetting requesttimeout="9999999">

Don't forget to re-init you blog before you post, so that the new line is initalised.



Jan 08
22

Finally! A New Design for cfblog

Out with the old and in with the new. I finally decided to update my blogs look and feel. So jumping on the band wagon of web 2.0 icons, I started to re-design the site.

And here it is! It's taken me about 30 hours of work and lots of late nights, but I'm quite happy with it. The hardest thing I find when designing is coming up with an idea. So I spent quite awhile browsing sites to get some inspiration.

I use BlogCFC by Ray Camden (can't wait for version 6 ray), and needed to modify a few bits of code so that the design worked. I also tweaked various files sp that the site now passes the W3C validator for xhtml 1.0 strict.

Within the next few days I'll post a tutorial on how I created some of the graphics and also provide the .psd (photoshop files) for them.

I've still got a little bit of work to do on this and that, but the main bulk has been achieved.

Let me know what you think.

 
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