Friday July 23, 2004

Re: Google circa 1960

Some ideas just really catch your imagination. What this put into my head was "Wouldn't it be cool to create a CSS theme that looked like this?". I don't know enough about CSS, but it seems it'd be possible to use a font like that and to get text boxes to display as an line rather than a box. Consider this a LazyWeb request.
( Jul 23 2004, 08:37:15 AM ) Entertainment Permalink [Trackback]

Tuesday July 20, 2004

Referer Spam Master List

Arjun Ram has contributed to my "link spammers" list. See them all!

( Jul 20 2004, 05:15:38 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

Monday July 19, 2004

Here we go again.
( Jul 19 2004, 12:46:47 PM ) News Permalink Comments [1] [Trackback]

ACLU Pizza Scary. Via Ben Hyde.
( Jul 19 2004, 11:19:50 AM ) News Permalink [Trackback]

Template Decorators in Roller

Last week on the Roller-Dev mailing list I promised to post an example of the "decorator" support I'd built into Roller. This functionality was inspired by Matt's post about supporting SiteMesh decoration in Roller. While I don't know if this could truly be called a Decorator, it does at least approximate what SiteMesh does (for Velocity).

To demonstrate I put together a page to display the most recent comments for Vanity Foul. Besides implementing a Latest Comments page I also created a Decorator page (_mydecorator) to wrap the page in a familiar look. By specifying #set( $decorator = "_mydecorator" ) in my Latest Comments page I inform Roller of which Decorator to use (currently it defaults to a "no-op decorator").

See the Pages:
• _mydecorator
• Latest Comments

Wanna see how I wrote that View Source Page?
BTW: I know the layout html is ugly, but I "inherited" the HTML, didn't design it myself. I keep telling myself that I'll get around to improving it....

Update: I like this idea so much I converted my To-Do List and Wish List to use the Decorator as well.
( Jul 19 2004, 10:16:52 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [2] [Trackback]

For further reading on today's posts:

Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps : The Beauty of SiteMesh Category: Java I'm pumped that I recently switched from Tiles to SiteMesh in AppFuse . Not only was it easy to learn when I integrated it into Equinox , but it easy to replace Tiles with SiteMesh in AppFuse. The best part of SiteMesh is once you have it setup and configured, you rarely have to muck with it again - it just works. In fact, it's so non-obtrusive that when I re-worked all AppFuse's tutorials last week, I was a...

Friday July 16, 2004

RSYA

Or "Referer Spamming Yet Again". The issue of referer spam has come up again, so I'll repost about my referer-spammer list. I've been listing it in XML, but I see now it will be more valuable to the Roller community as a comma-delimited list (suitable for copy-pasting straight into your own Spam Prevention box).

Also worth mentioning is that Roller supports directly deleting Referer Spam, using the Weblog::Referers tab.
( Jul 16 2004, 10:14:29 AM ) Roller Permalink Comments [1] [Trackback]

Thursday July 08, 2004

Is there a 12-step program for this?

I'm afraid I've become seriously addicted to Dairy Queen's Mocha Moolatte! It's got three of my favorites: coffee, chocolate & ice cream. Good thing they don't put nicotine in there or I'd really be hooked.
( Jul 08 2004, 08:39:42 PM ) Humor? Permalink [Trackback]

OJB Fun Hot diggety damn I've got to find time to try out OJB. OJB is much more like an (old, dead) OR tool I used to use (ROF).
( Jul 08 2004, 11:06:12 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [3] [Trackback]