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    Made a start on an RPX plugin

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    Nick
    , 11-22-2009 at 04:29 PM (Nick's Hotaru CMS Blog)
    RPX rocks. If you don't know what it is, take a look.

    I've been using RPX on my site, JapanSoc.com, for over half a year, and despite some early teething problems it has been great, both for convenience and reducing spam.

    Now that Hotaru is in beta, I'm looking more towards moving JapanSoc from SWCMS to Hotaru, and that means somehow, magically, maintaining all the user ID mappings between my database and the RPX server.

    This is especially complicated because ...
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    A New Default Theme

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    Nick
    , 07-24-2009 at 08:47 PM (Nick's Hotaru CMS Blog)
    I spent a couple of hours today changing the default theme from the cute, green and white, rounded corners look (complete with firefly), to a rather more serious, black and white look:

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    See a live demo!

    So why the change? For one thing, the original theme didn't validate at W3C because of the CSS rounded corners, so they had to go. Secondly, it's much easier
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