Sjoerd Visscher's weblog
My ideas about new web technology that can change the future of the world wide web.
Friday, January 25, 2002 >
The first bunch of problems seem to be solved. Now I have to convert older pages to the new skin.The eventlog showed: "Notified Weblogs.Com that Sjoerd Visscher's weblog - w3future.com updated. And it said in response -- Thanks for the ping, however we can only accept one ping every five minutes. It's cool that you're updating so often, however, if I may be so bold as to offer some advice -- take a break, you'll enjoy life more." Still some bugs to solve... And this post is made to see if the xmlStorageSystem creates the archive file. This test is to see if today's posts will show up in the weblog archive.That worked! However, the macros that create the orange xml button and the coffee mug button, don't point to w3future.com. No, I'm wrong. They do point to w3future.com now. This post should appear on w3future.com
Adam gets a radio show. And guess what, we're going to integrate his show with our Radio show. This is so cool. The Netherlands is leading the way. [Scripting News]
Yes, we (the Dutch) always do... No, really! And of course I'm going to listen.
hmm. it works. weird. trying out 8.0.2 again. Hmmm. 8.0.2 crashes when upstreaming. 8.0.1 does not. Investigating... Testing the mug! Testing w3future.com's xmlStorageSystem and another one another test Testing Manila publishing. It works! Great. Does storing the colors work now? Let's test! I've created a color editor to make it easier to find different colors for my website. It doesn't save anything yet, and I don't know what to do with the logo. Testing...The sidebar on the left is now generated from an OPML file:
The script then generates this piece of javascript code:
weblogSidebar={
'What I read':[
{style:'button2', content:'Jake's Brainpan',
gonew:'http://jake.editthispage.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Joel on Software',
gonew:'http://joel.editthispage.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Lambda the Ultimate',
gonew:'http://lambda.weblogs.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'markpasc_blog',
gonew:'http://markpasc.org/blog/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'owrede_log',
gonew:'http://owrede.khm.de/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Scripting News',
gonew:'http://www.scripting.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'XMLHack',
gonew:'http://www.xmlhack.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'<b>All sources</b>',
gonew:'http://w3future.com/html/weblogsources.html'}
]
,'Friends/Family':[
{style:'button2', content:'Joeri',
gonew:'http://joeri.mulder.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Marco',
gonew:'http://www.maggerydoo.net/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Jelle',
gonew:'http://uitdeschaduw.blogspot.com/'}
,{style:'button2', content:'Q42',
gonew:'http://www.q42.nl/'}
]
};
The template contains a script that creates the buttons from the data. I named the opmlfile #sidebar.opml. The # means that files in subdirectories can have their own sidebar links, but they default to the one from the parent directory.
OK, what's the number one glaring hole in Radio 8 (aside from the bugs and glitches, which we're working on after spending much of the weekend overloading on excitement and sleeping)? It doesn't connect to Manila. It will. I'm working on a Tool that mirrors your posts to Manila sites. I have it working here. Now here's a heads-up to developers of other centralized blogging tools like Manila. We're using the Blogger API. That means it will also work with Blogger, naturally, and any other centralized blogging tool that supports the API. [Scripting News]
This is really cool. Dave, if I may, can I beta test this, please?
HTML can look so weird when you forget a quote. ;-) Google has already scanned radio.weblogs.com. Trying out the calendar. There are classes. Nice. I hope this is going to be standard practice at Userland. Kill the font tag!Dan Gillmor: Google effect reduces need for many domains. [Scripting News]
Dan says that you don't need short easy to guess domainnames anymore. But it´s still smart to have an easy to remember URL once you've found it. (Or just provide an RSS file of course)
Small template update. I'm still not sure how to get the archives into the database on w3future.com without the post to Manila feature. The #upstream.xml doesn't seem to support more than 1 upstream location. Post to force a republish. Again.A remote post. No problem.
OK, the referer problem solved. Again within 10 minutes. Great support! What do the Referes and Page-Reads count? Dave pointed to my radio.weblogs.com page, but that doesn't show up in my referers list. Where did the "update now" feature of the news aggregator go? One feature request resolved: I wanted the system pages to have the default theme, but all the other pages my w3future theme. It was as easy as putting the #template.txt file from the default theme into the www/system/pages dir. One strange thing though: the maintemplate pref shows the default theme, not my w3future theme. I've been checking out Radio Userland since I woke up. I was planning to go to my parents today, but that'll have to wait. I've all kinds of feature requests for RU8. That's not a good sign for programs, but a good sign for a platform, which is what RU8 is. It initiates new ideas. One tip for the Userland programmers: remove all <font> stuff from the code and add class attributes. It makes changing the templates so much easier. (f.e. the adminMenu code) Hmmm. RU 8.0 adds <P> elements in templates with empty lines. I do that to make the source a bit more readable... (Maybe it's a pref, haven't seen them all yet) Template updated. Time to take a look at all the prefs. (what a list! I love prefs) Upstreaming didn't work, but it was fixed very quickly. ...in 1 minute 52 seconds, and it can be done faster I'm sure! First post!