A touch of Krome
October 9th, 2006 1:09:14 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
I like to link to users of my published code, as a sort of “thank you for your support”. Even though they don’t pay for any of it.
But sometimes it pays off in other ways. For instance, when I linked to Sergio Longoni (aka “Kromeboy”) who uses my OPML blogroll widget, he responded with some good suggestions for improving the widget, including the necessary source code.
So today I updated the widget to version 1.1 and included Sergio’s enhancements. He also had some other suggestions that I’ll consider for a future version.
It’s called “collaboration”.
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That sort of thing works beautifully for helping move a project forward. It’s what makes the open source development world go ’round. Good to hear you got some good feedback on that — and it’d be even better to hear if that was one of your plugins that I use. Heh.
By the way, if you suddenly start getting email notifications of replies in comments on SOB again, let me know. I reinstalled the email notification plugin a couple days or so ago, on the off-chance that something happened to the old PHP files for it that would have caused it to stop working.
Thanks, apotheon. As of the time I left a comment on your blog this afternoon, the notification was still not working.
Darnit.
I think that about sums it up.
Are other commenters experiencing the same problem?
The other one or two with whom I’ve discussed it report the same problem.
Ah, yes the collab lab of weblog island. And I love the cake of understanding who’s icing is rubbed off on our arrowed minds as we shrug our way past the unwashed masses and kiss the cathedral of undrilled militant attention to user detail.
I consider every post at my own scroungey belittled blog, every post that gets from 1 to 2 comments at least, is a collaborative project between me and another blogger with nothing better to do or not do and leave undone.
Vaspers, after three sleepless days you sound a lot like James Joyce. Maybe that’s how he got his inspiration.
“kiss the cathedral of undrilled militant attention to user detail” – brilliant.
Yeah, that was quite good.
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