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where wave meets particle No Simpler than this:
Friday, March 08, 2002
A quick and dirty summary of my customizations to the weblog to date
this is just a model, so lets model.
i have certain ideas about how i want my site to feel. these pretty much directed what i've done so far:i want it to be layered. it has a slowly changing top level, i will add a list of the 10 most recent posts in each category to a sidebar and make the page itself feel right, but its function will be synthesis. technically, i'm rendering the noSimpler category on the homepage and the homepage category from iBlog.txt it has a middle of distinct categories it has a floor of a category abstracting and relating each day in time. it has some side pages.
i want it to have texture links between posts are now a reality here. they will be much richer once i have titles but they already are easy to create and i will make them even easier for me to manage. secondary pages now integrate into each day through the calendar. they act like the front and back of a card.. you "flip the day" to see more. each category has a distinct sidebar and can have distinct navigators as well as use a two or three column layout -- using a single template. i wanted it to have depth.. which for a weblog means a past. i want to use the core engine to track 'my resumee' and use this platform to experiement with marking up and rendering periods of time. for this i've switched to hex-seconds (slower count vs seconds) for permalinks. i've worked out a single and batch renumberer (cant run it until i extend it for threads first, but its ok otherwise) i've added day and time stores to the database. the day stores are used to cache calendars by category and the time stores track the daily horoscopes.
i wanted bltwth, email and feeds to be presented differently and of course needed my own coffee mug.
on the editing side of the cloud, i have developed a few ideas too:
i wanted better browser integration my site runs the same, locally or remotely. if i switch, all links switch. this was a big deal for me. the desktop site smartly links to the remote page.. and the remote pages link back to me on the desktop if i tell them to. i added a little bit of code to the desktopwebsite template which switches in the different components of the page at will. coupled with some javascript to open new windows it gives me 'safe' windows to post and edit from. i can have multiple windows for new posts open at the same time. actually, i added a whole bunch of code.. i can link, edit and post in the main or popup windows. i have mark's search customized to give me linking and editing. the newsaggregator opens a new window for each thing i might want to post or research more. the line's a little blurry, but i think editing a post was not possible from anywhere in the past. it is here.
i wanted more programming support so i developed debugging sidebar for my local view of things and made it so i could turn off and on the flags from bookmarks and a page. i refined a set of 'before' and 'after' routines to wrap around test-code which aid me by managing profiling, pta, and result display for me. its not much, but it helps. still need to undo and store overnight patches elsewhere.
automation tightly bound to an abstract 'horoscope data getter' producing the symbolic layer. renumber, check and rebuild category indexes.. my own db consistency fixer is handy. keeping the last 10 startup radio and weblogdata. root files via winzip batch file bought me a lot of peace of mind.
there are currently 70 hand-crafted, 5 customized and 4 patched routines producing the functional delta represented by this weblog :) .. and there's 19 astrological routines getting numbers and producing reports.