Tuesday November 12, 2002

What's a Snook? he asked
I dunno. Matt is playing with some new contact management software. It autogenerated an email which sounded fishy to me. I sent Matt an email asking if it was for real (sounds like some automated sucker bait in the email), or if it was a "snook". Whatever, it was the only word I could think of at the time, but I think it'll be a permanent addition to my vocabulary. It means "something questionable or unsure", or so I'm guessing. Snook is itself snook. ( Nov 12 2002, 04:01:54 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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Vote now or forever hold your tongue! ( Nov 12 2002, 03:16:16 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [1]
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Comments "bug"
Greg has noticed that the new Comments feature doesn't "allow" HTML, nor does it autoformat line breaks (insert a break for each carriage-return). The first is because Struts' bean:write automatically escapes HTML. I kinda like this, kinda don't. I realize there are good security reasons to escape HTML (<script>), but I'm too lazy to bother with just the dangerous ones.

Question: should I turn off the HTML escaping & add the autoformat? Or should I leave off the autoformat and allow HTML? Or should I allow HTML *and* do the autoformatting? Can someone think of a couple config parameters for this, so I can add them to RollerConfig and the Admin can decide?

Later: I guess two booleans, autoformatComments and escapeCommentHtml, would work fine. The display could key off these, and the admin could have it however he or she liked it. ( Nov 12 2002, 01:24:35 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [6] [Link]
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Fear NewsMonster
Thanks to Russell's heads-up, I tried installing NewsMonster, but it must have failed somewhere (did the Mozilla install). I also tried the Java install. Neither works, and now I get weird "cannot find a file" messages everytime I open a windo in Moz (like when I came to enter this comment).

I tried subscribing to the NewsMonster mailing list to look for help (as in, uninstalling the non-existant plugin), but that failed ... User unknown. And Kevin hasn't got a mailing list archive running on peerfear either. I'm screwed. Guess I could uninstall Moz and reinstall, but what a pain. ( Nov 12 2002, 11:11:30 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1] [Link]
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For further reading on today's posts:

Otaku, Cedric's weblog : I had the same experience as Lance when I tried to install NewsMonster.  My guess is that it's because I am using Mozilla 1.2 beta.

Monday November 11, 2002

Veteran's Day
My uncle served in Greece during Vietnam. So far as I know, he's the only member of my family-tree to serve since the Civil War. Somehow this makes me all the more in debt, as my family hasn't made that ultimate sacrifice in nearly 140 years (and may it be at least another 140 - for everyone).

Thank you to all the men and women who have served our country! ( Nov 11 2002, 09:49:08 PM ) News Permalink
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Veterans day

Amen

Dave says it best

There are lots of little problems with Roller's UI, lots of room for improvements, and lots of missing weblogging features. Make sure the issues that are bugging you get into Roller's JIRA issue tracker. Look at the list of issues that are not yet assigned to a release and vote on the ones that are most important to you. You can also view the currently most popular issues.[Blogging Roller]

I also encourage you to vote for your most desired feature. I encourage you even more to pitch in and implement your desired feature or bug fix! ( Nov 11 2002, 02:27:35 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [7]
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Saturday November 09, 2002

Andy Oliver wants

2. Comment button - Sammy boy has them on his page.. I'm curious what kind of comments I'd get... I suppose it should be toggleable on/off because I might not like them ;-)[Hacking Log 2.0]

It'll be in the next release, Andy. I checked in code today. As you wanted, you will be able to disable comments, and you'll also be able to delete comments.

So far as online help, Dave has written a User Guide (that seems to be unavailable right now). I've scoped out "switchable themes" (mostly in my head), but I may not be able to get to it any time soon. And I think the box hosting FreeRoller is an Anthony Eden spare, desperate for more memory. ( Nov 09 2002, 10:46:41 PM ) Roller Permalink Comments [4]
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For further reading on today's posts:

Blogging Roller : Andy suggested a couple of good Roller enhancements. He asked for comments,which Lance just checked in . He also asked for some docs, here is the User Guide . Blogging Roller : Roller is certainly going strong. At the start of the week I forked 0.9.6 off into it's own branch in case we need to do a bug fix release. Since then, Lance has checked in two great new features: support for comments on weblog entries and a spelling checker for the weblog editor. Great stuff. Matt Raible has kindly opened up a demo account on his Roller install so you can try the new features.