Tag Archives for blogging
Blogging the Olympics
I normally don’t like regurgitating news that made it’s way to Slashdot. I somehow imagine that anyone reading my stuff is bound to be a /. reader as well. However, I’m making an exception for this one given it’s relevance … Continue reading
The final URI scheme for posts, and the solution for caching
It’s taken awhile to get to this, but I’ve finally settled on the URI path structure for my posts (which can be thought of as PURL’s, Persistent URL’s). The structure looks like this: /blog/archive/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/FILENAME.VIEW For example, the HTML view of … Continue reading
CMS Project update — adding iterators to the template engine
You probably didn’t notice, but the “topics” for each post are now hyperlinked. Getting the link and subsequent query to work were the easy part — displaying the topics as hyperlinks was more difficult since the template parsing engine previously … Continue reading
CMS Project updates
The automated content import system is working now, albeit without a ‘refresh’ function. Currently, to re-scan the text-file articles, you nuke the ‘blog.db’ file and reload any page from a web browser. The system will notice the missing database and … Continue reading
CMS Project updates
My current focus is in re-writing the article storage mechanism. In the first version, everything was stored in a database (even the version control mechanism used the database), but this soon became problematic as new functionality was added and the … Continue reading
Developing a new CMS
For the past six months I’ve been writing, breaking, and re-writing a new CMS system for this site. The current incarnation is something like a Blogging tool, but it didn’t start that way. It started as a Wiki. Last year … Continue reading