Why did you say six months?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
He's coming.
This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?
Why did you say five minutes?
Sunday, July 22
The Wonders Of Modern Technology
So it turns out I can make arbitrary transparency effects on the fly. That'll come in handy; it's a whole bunch less static images I need, and a whole lot more flexibility.
Only works for rectangles so far. Let's see what I can do with shapes...
So it turns out I can make arbitrary transparency effects on the fly. That'll come in handy; it's a whole bunch less static images I need, and a whole lot more flexibility.
Only works for rectangles so far. Let's see what I can do with shapes...
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Feeling Good 'Bout My Irregularity
I happened to stumble across the source code for an ASP-based open-source blogging app while I was looking for something else entirely* and I was struck by how regular and elegant the code was.
The code for Minx doesn't look like that. Partly because I developed it relatively quickly and it's still on version 1. But mostly, I realised a bit later, for another reason; for the same reason that the uncompressed source code for the entire system will still fit on a 360K floppy: I've squeezed all the regularity out.
A lot of the regularity in the code I was looking at was sequences of assignment statements - in Minx these are rolled up into loops, driven by tables. I wrote my own SQL abstraction module for this reason. It doesn't abstract the queries for me, but it completely abstracts the data.
I still want to prettify my code, but I feel happier now.
Also, while I was asleep I thought of a straightforward way to handle per-user/per-site customisation. That will address a lot of limitations of working with a hosted system rather than your own custom app; it will allow per-user themes for blogs, for example. I'll try to fit that in this coming week, along with the theme builder, site wizards, and AJAXulation.
* An open source web-based code display thingy**; turns out that SyntaxHighlighter is now LGPL and will do just fine.
** For an enhanced version of the [code] tag.
I happened to stumble across the source code for an ASP-based open-source blogging app while I was looking for something else entirely* and I was struck by how regular and elegant the code was.
The code for Minx doesn't look like that. Partly because I developed it relatively quickly and it's still on version 1. But mostly, I realised a bit later, for another reason; for the same reason that the uncompressed source code for the entire system will still fit on a 360K floppy: I've squeezed all the regularity out.
A lot of the regularity in the code I was looking at was sequences of assignment statements - in Minx these are rolled up into loops, driven by tables. I wrote my own SQL abstraction module for this reason. It doesn't abstract the queries for me, but it completely abstracts the data.
I still want to prettify my code, but I feel happier now.
Also, while I was asleep I thought of a straightforward way to handle per-user/per-site customisation. That will address a lot of limitations of working with a hosted system rather than your own custom app; it will allow per-user themes for blogs, for example. I'll try to fit that in this coming week, along with the theme builder, site wizards, and AJAXulation.
* An open source web-based code display thingy**; turns out that SyntaxHighlighter is now LGPL and will do just fine.
** For an enhanced version of the [code] tag.
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Saturday, July 14
Will It Blend?
Sure it will!
You can now import Blogspot and Movable Type blogs* in Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew** into Minx. Or at least, I can; you'll get the opportunity tomorrow.
Does it work? If have no freaking idea. I've put a wrapper around a standard set of character set codecs to convert your file into Unicode, which gets stored and served as UTF-8. But I don't have any sample blogs in Ukrainian or Korean to try it out with, and I wouldn't necessarily pick up the errors if I did.
It looks interesting if you tell it your file is in Arabic when it's really Windows-1252, though.
I also discovered that Minx wasn't necessarily serving up UTF-8 when it said it was. I'm going to fix that tomorrow as well; it shouldn't affect anything because the back-end really is entirely Unicode, but Steven, if your Japanese examples suddenly turn into randomly accented Latin text, that's why.
* And blogs from anything else that can produce a Blogger/MT-style export file.
** And normal-type languages, too.***
*** Also automatically handles gzip and bzip2!
Sure it will!
You can now import Blogspot and Movable Type blogs* in Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew** into Minx. Or at least, I can; you'll get the opportunity tomorrow.
Does it work? If have no freaking idea. I've put a wrapper around a standard set of character set codecs to convert your file into Unicode, which gets stored and served as UTF-8. But I don't have any sample blogs in Ukrainian or Korean to try it out with, and I wouldn't necessarily pick up the errors if I did.
It looks interesting if you tell it your file is in Arabic when it's really Windows-1252, though.
I also discovered that Minx wasn't necessarily serving up UTF-8 when it said it was. I'm going to fix that tomorrow as well; it shouldn't affect anything because the back-end really is entirely Unicode, but Steven, if your Japanese examples suddenly turn into randomly accented Latin text, that's why.
* And blogs from anything else that can produce a Blogger/MT-style export file.
** And normal-type languages, too.***
*** Also automatically handles gzip and bzip2!
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