Scott Yang's Playground

I need to do a nested blockquote in Textile inside TextPattern, and it has made me even more frustrated. The question is, how? Nested blockquotes in HTML? I know how to do that! I need to do something like this. <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>This is the inner quoted paragraph.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is the outter quoted paragraph.</p> [...]

Planned to start a new site. Topic? All set. Hosting? Will be at my new VPS. It is going to be a light traffic site on a specific topic updated maybe once or twice a week, so I think a simple blogging app will suffice, i.e. no complicated CMS system. So far I have two [...]

Dean Allan has released TextPattern 4. Wow! Finally. So, what has been changed since TextPattern 3? Huh?! There was no TextPattern 3. The last public release was the 1.0RC5, and it looks like someone else is having fun playing with the version number game today. Well, never mind. The last TextPattern that I had extensively [...]

Dean Allen says that TextPattern 1.0 RC will be released next Monday. He has made similar announcement previous but did not happen. Let’s hope this time he would make his target. I’ve got a development site on TXP 1.19gamma at the moment, and would love to move to the official One Point Zero before releasing [...]

Dean Allan talks about release TextPattern 1.0 sometime this week. Yipee! (Update: And by now we all know that it did not happen.)

TextPattern was one of the blogging/CMS software package that I evaluated when Movable Type 3 first came out with its more restrictive license. Even though WordPress won out at the end due to its ‘hackable-factor’, I have always enjoyed my short experience with TextPattern. It has a nice front-end interface, unclustered code and an interesting [...]

Spence detailed his discovery of potential XSS attacks with WordPress and TextPattern, contacted Matt and Dean, and how the developers have responded. Defending against XSS is such a pain in the @#$% for all web application developers, and it is important to respond all the security related feedbacks to provide assurance to your users.