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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Delicious at your Service

Whoops! At this rate I will be pretty good a hacker soon :-D What happened all that love-hate relationship with anything even remotely related to programming??!!

Okay - so here is another piece of information. Previous post gives link to a hack to easily include del.icio.us "Categories" in your blog. This post points a ways to easily put your post's link on del.icio.us.

For details see - anildigital's blog. And here is a slightly modified script because the default pop-up interface of del.icio.us is not good (it does not include the list of tags and hence you have to manually enter them!). With this modification the usual interface opens in a pop-up window.

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<!-- Bookmark post on Del.icio.us -->

Bookmark this on <a href="javascript:void(myPop=window.open('http://del.icio.us/login
/?v=3&noui=yes&jump=close&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>&url=
<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>','delicious','toolbar=no,
scrollbars=no,width=700,
height=250,status=yes,resizable=yes'));myPop.focus();">Del.icio.us</a>
<!-- Bookmark post on Del.icio.us -->

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You have to replace login in the above code with your id at del.icio.us and paste it in the post-footer of your blogger template.

Then, when you are seeing you blog, you can just click on the link that comes and post the entry on del.icio.us.

Now, I have done it on my blog, but you do not see any extraneous link, do you?

Okay, so a little bit of hack from Conditional "new post" links. See "Making it Conditional" part and use the same tactic around this link. Then, it will be visible to you only when you are logged in with your blogger accout and not to other readers.

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P.S. I did something foolish to have lost this post. Part of it was recovered thanks to "Recover post" feature of the blogger... Probably, it's not yet time to ditch blogger really :-)

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4 Comments:

  • At Wed Jul 27, 04:44:00 PM 2005, Blogger Lee said…

    Seems to work okay, but I quite like my own method of working categories into Blogger:

    http://leethomson.blogspot.com/2005/07/fake-blogger-categories.html

    It's kind of messy, but I think it's worth the extra work to maintain the visual consistency between the main blog and category pages.

     
  • At Wed Jul 27, 04:53:00 PM 2005, Blogger Jaya said…

    Too much work! And I have to go and update that page manually everytime I post. I would be ready to give something for consistent look and feel, but not so much! :)

    And I have close to 400 entries in this blog already (382 to be exact!)

     
  • At Wed Jul 27, 05:21:00 PM 2005, Blogger Lee said…

    You're right, it's a lot of work to set up. That's why I did it with a new blog!

    Keeping it up to date is a simple matter of cutting and pasting into a text file one or two times a day. Adds about a minute to each posting.

    It works for now but I wouldn't want to use it forever. I can't see how Blogger can continue not to support categories for much longer.

     
  • At Wed Jul 27, 05:24:00 PM 2005, Blogger Jaya said…

    Yeah - I too hope they come up with something soon...

    Amen!

     

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