Michael Ax: Radio

tool installation defaults

wouldnt it be nice if any tool which uses <upstream=none/> would simply install under /system/?

using the new title feature

the way i read it... if i use an unadultered <%itemtitle%> in the #daytemplate i wind up adding another hotlink to the item's archive locale (by category) onto the page.

the way i read it, i better leave the itemlink field alone.. this way i will always get a permalink to the item included in the rss feed.

to add a 'primary link' to the outside, i think i'm going to use the enclosure field more and more. i like that it has no relation to anything else mattering right now.

for now, because i like my itemtitles without links, i set up my own value in the publish callback and adjusted the 'new/edit post' window to accomodate the new field.

using the new title feature

<%radio.images.imageref("/images/radiodt.newpost.020314.jpg")%>

data store concept to emerge in windows gui.. for real this time

New Windows could solve age-old puzzle - Tech News - CNET.com

the outliner moves into the os. congrats to the devotees!

Radio UserLand : New feature: Titles and Links in Radio-generated RSS: "Posts with Titles and Links are rendered through a new item template macro <%itemTitle%>which you can use to control the placement and formatting of the title. "

this is cool!

fun with javascript.

i wrote this imageswitcher for my dojo buddy randall. he's selling sliced panax ginseng root cured in linden honey. neat stuff. have him send you a sample. this shows his product on the home page. three pictures in one spot.

<img src=i2.jpg name=image border=0 width=400 height=300> 
Select Image: 

<a href="." onclick="image.src='i3.jpg'; return false;">Box of 10</a>; 
<a href="." onclick="image.src='i1.jpg'; return false;">Sealed</a> and
<a href="." onclick="image.src='i2.jpg'; return false;">open</a> packet.

Select Image: Box of 10; Sealed and open packet.

A quick and dirty summary of my customizations to the weblog to date

Friday, March 08, 2002 - No Simpler than this Radio: "A quick and dirty summary of my customizations to the weblog to date"

i've been a busy guy. this document outlines some of the whats, hows and whys. screenshots still to come.

calendar enhanced

i added some code to the calendar so that it renders days with 'day contents' in bold with links alternating between, say, 05.html and 05/index.html

with this new 'spot' available in my blog i can store stories for the day with its media inside the main and category trees without actually having to 'post a new story'.

so far just the rendering is worked out and i have to put a handmade #prefs.txt file into the directories.. but i can see how to make this ever more automatic as i start coming into the '+' with this feature :)

discovering 'flip' pages

amazing what i'm learning from my mistakes. my latest 'discovery' is about the calendar and how it builds the link targets. turns out that i can use directories inside the yyyy/mm/ roots containing the daily text files and have the calendar automatically link to them. with that, i can simply edit the index file in that day's folder to integrate custom 'stuff' on that page for the day, apply custom templates, and IMAGES that are used just for that day.

I ran into this by accident and like it. It means a few changes to my 'day' pages and perhaps a tweak to the calendar which will alert me to existing files for that day. certainly a tweak to radio.weblog.publish so that it doesnt make useless txt files for days where a dir exists.

perhaps i'm just running into artifacts that were dumbed down from userland's higher end tools. neat anyway!

editor only features

I wrote about the cookie to identify myself to the site a few days back. Here is a link to the page I use to enable/disable the desktop link. The JavaScript to do the actual link is in Link127().