Thursday, March 27, 2003

The Rileys wiki is up and running, though mainly content-free for the moment. Its appearance is pretty much the way I want it, and the functionality will continue to improve. I showed it to my father after dinner tonight and he took to it immediately—not that that guarantees he'll contribute in future, but it's a good sign. The wiki is about 2500 lines of Python with Medusa as its HTTP server. In order to provide a sane URL, it runs behind Apache using mod_proxy_http. I had some problems initially because of a bug in Apache httpd-2.1-dev, which causes ProxyPass to not work properly if the proxied server supports connection keep-alive. There's no problem with 1.3.x, the version which every other sane person uses. (Just discovered developer.danger.com is a Mac—since I saw an error message from port 16080, Apple's traditional WebPerformanceCache port. Of course I could have checked the HTTP headers, but that’s too easy. Neat!) 4:25:30 PM | reply [] rileys.us is up, sort of. At some point I'll install a real content management system, probably something lightweight and wiki-like, but this is better than nothing, and I'll be able to reuse my work on the style sheets. Trying some prototyping in Dreamweaver and Fireworks MX, since I had copies sitting around—definitely these versions are a lot less annoying to use than earlier versions. Integration between the tools still leaves a lot to be desired, and I can't get Fireworks to output transparent PNGs no matter what I do. (Not that it matters since WinIE6 still doesn't support them). Fireworks is a lousy Mac OS X citizen, consuming 10–15% of my CPU time even with no windows open. 12:23:50 AM | reply []