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Roller hack: Highlighting Google hits in your referer list

Eugene Kuleshov shows how to do it on his JRoller blog Euxx.

Comments:

Hmm, this isn't the first time we've seen this (remember the "Recent Posts" hack?): perhaps we should approach OReilly about a "Roller Hacks" book?

Posted by Lance on April 05, 2004 at 10:27 AM EDT #

[Trackback] <p> Dave points to a blog entry showing how to "hack" Roller to show friendly Google searches and, while it's a really nice feature, there's something else that I'd like to pick up on here. </p>

Posted by Simon Brown's weblog on April 05, 2004 at 03:17 PM EDT #

[Trackback] It looks like I have to learn how to better express myself. Surely it is not the way to implement such things in a proper MVC and that is why I call it a hack. It has been said already that the whole Velocity-based scripting does not really makes sense...

Posted by Euxx on April 05, 2004 at 11:08 PM EDT #

Lance, what is that about?

Posted by eu on April 05, 2004 at 11:10 PM EDT #

[Trackback] My .02 on the whole hacking the various weblogs templates discussions (here, here) is that someone came up with a way to display Google hits from their referer list. The whole bit about it being a hack or Velocity pages can be as unreadable as JSPs wi...

Posted by Bedeviled Mojo Slop (Reloaded) on April 06, 2004 at 07:46 AM EDT #

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