trackback - and weblog reinvention

March 11th, 2004

This site now has trackback implemented via a mysql database keeping state on whether trackback ping was successful and a background process performing pings. It is used here both as a way of citing references and hooking into prominent discussion. The actual site postings are not submitted via a web interface, but rather imported from text files which are edited with a user-friendly text editor — the best way I like to edit text. Also, the article URLs are textual not numerical and have no date component to them. There is no idea of a separate “permalink” or “/archive” URL for a posting. This naming convention appears cleaner to me.

I beg that this is not reinvention for the arrogance of ‘not invented here’, but rather as a learning experience.

See also:
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/