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Monday 18 February 2002

ziaZope

Spent a little time over the last few days learning about the Zope Web App Server/Content Management System. Being a Python fan, I've read about it for years, but only with my peripheral vision. Since I've only had net access via dial-up, it wasn't going to be of much use. But now there's a place where you can set up a small Zope site to learn how it fits together. So I set up my own site. Minimal so far.

Oh, yeah, and this posting is being done from the Mac OS X side of my iMac. Now that I upped it from 96MB to 288MB, Mac OS X runs fairly well even on a 333MHz iMac.
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Adding some Content

Adding some content

I pushed several of my trip reports up to the backpacking section of my static site, and gave more specific titles to most of the pages. I think all of the nav links on my home page work now, though several lead only to fairly empty pages.
9:33:28 PM comment/

Radio prefs Macros

Radio prefs macros

In this item, I wonder how to make it easier to make relative links to the site's stories and gems folders. Actually, I just wanted to make it so I don't have to type those URLs myself a lot.

Well, instead of relative links, I just set up some macros in my top level #prefs.txt file:

#my_RURL "http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945"
#my_gems "<%my_RURL%>/gems"
#my_stories "<%my_RURL%>/stories"

Now, all references to my stories and gems can be done via those macros.

<a href="<%my_gems%>/Some_Gem"> Some Gem </a>

Cool. [...] (later) Well, almost. The substitution doesn't "go all the way through", so in the #prefs.txt, I do have to spell out my URL three times:

#my_RURL "http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945"
#my_gems "http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/gems"
#my_stories "http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/stories"

Still pretty cool.
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