Sunday, 11 May 2003

Blogroll bug There appears to be a problem upstreaming changes to my opml blogroll. The XML file updates, but the blogroll on my menu doesn't. I got around this by manually deleting the blogroll from my homepage template, publishing, then adding the blogroll back in - i.e. in a roundabout way I re-published the blogroll in my menu. 11:08:38 PM    comment []

Userland macro for story list Wouldn't you know it, I came across a Userland macro today that lists recent titled blog posts. Where was this macro when I needed it yesterday? :-) Anyway, I'm playing around with this macro now. Still getting used to Radio Userland's dev environment... ...Got this working OK and I now have my 10 most recent entries displayed in my menu. ps if like me you wondered how to change the fonts, check out this page on the Userland discussion list. 9:26:30 AM    comment []

Story List macro Tonight I added an OPML blogroll to my menu - easy thanks to Jake Savin's instructions. Then I set about trying to implement a "Last 10 Entries" script into my weblog menu. Because I tend to write long-ish articles, I'd like to have a dynamic menu that lists my 10 most recent articles. I looked around the web for a feature like this, but found that most webloggers don't list their weblog entries in their menu. Most people rely on a calendar as a navigation tool, or they use categories. Eventually I did find a relevant script by Jon Udell called StoryList. It provides a list of all articles in reverse chronological order. There's also a script by Marc Barrot called RadioScan which extends the concept, but I decided I'll stick with Jon's script at this point. I then spent a bit of time messing around in Radio until I got it right. So now I have a list of my articles. That's cool, but I still want to put this in my menu and truncate it to the 10 most recent entries. But since it's nearly 1am, I think I'll tackle that another time! 1:00:03 AM    comment []