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 Saturday, May 24, 2003

Best Named Domain Ever

Go  Oh and thanks to Chris Pirillo for reporting a Feedster CSS bug (fixed!).

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New Feature: View Last 100 Searches!

Well thanks again to Asa asking for it , I enhanced the Feedster Recent Queries feature with an additional "See Last 100 Searches".  He also correctly directed me towards a few things we need to be doing and rest assured they're both logical and coming.  Sorry to be cryptic about them but if we don't roll them out quickly enough, I don't want to disappoint anyone.

Note: I originally did recent queries on a Saturday morning, never remembered to blog it but I did stick it on the bottom links bar.  Glad people found it without my talking about it.  Good to know.

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Awesome Mozilla Firebird Tips

Wow. David Tenser did a great job.  And thanks to Asa who quite correctly pointed out an error in the new Feedster CSS -- not setting A:visited so links always looked the same and helping me get it fixed in real time.  Thanks man. (the wonders of IM never cease to amaze me).

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**Grumble** Rain.

Well It looks like not much besides rain this weekend so I guess that Feedster will benefit from it.  I mean what do you do other than write a search engine on a raining memorial day weekend?  Doesn't that make sense?

Oh and just so you know I've been in hard core mode restructuring look and feel and moving Feedster to a template based architecture so that's why I haven't been talking about new features lately.  There is new stuff but its tied to an overall much better approach to handling the whole UI.

And as a comment to people building web apps with php -- if you've never tried using output templates like Smarty, you really should.  Getting all that (fscking) html out of your source code has a hugely clarifying effect on everything.  You'll be very, very surprised.  And of course it brings a raft of benefits -- like being able to experiment with new look and feeds, fixing bugs w/o touching the source code, translation and more.  I know a lot of us resist templates but they really aren't that hard -- its just a level of abstraction when you come down to it.

 

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