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diff --git a/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html b/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec8edf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- +date: "2001-10-10T14:14:00Z" +title: The Apex of Page Updates +--- + +<p> +A lot has happened since I last updated my page: +<a href="http://www.tynian.net/">Brian (<i>bma</i>)</a> and +<a href="http://www.aphrael.net/">Karen (<i>aphrael</i>)</a> got +married! Brian's wedding cruise pictures are available +<a href="http://www.tynian.net/pix/cruise-200109/">here</a>. +<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom(<i>giblet</i>)</a> and +<a href="http://www.schmoo.org/">Sue</a> (<i>schmoo</i>) were unable to +join Brian and Karen's wedding cruise due to the post-WTC international +flight mayhem, so they spent the week at my place instead. Tom posted +pictures of the week and the reception +<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/pics/2001_09_holiday_virginia/">here</a>. +Also at the reception: Beth (Sue's daughter;she's a great kid and funny +as hell), Kevin (<i>het</i>), Nick (<i>learath</i>), Jimmy and Megan +(Karen's non-Internet-enabled friends that we hang out with quite a bit), +Megan's sister Jill, the man behind the curtain, +<a href="http://www.kainx.org/">Mr. Mej (<i>mej, KainX</i>)</a> +himself, +<a href="http://www.richlowe.net/">Richard (<i>richlowe</i>)</a> and +<a href="http://www.cyberquirky.org/">Jon Anne (<i>lilyj</i>)</a> were +at the reception as well, and they're staying with +<a href="http://www.snowman.net/">Stephen (<i>Snow-Man</i>)</a> +and I for a little while as well. Lots of great +<a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimpable</a> pictures of Richard in +Tom's pictures. Not that I would ever +<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/pics/2001_09_holiday_virginia/?browse=13&res=640x480">encourage</a> +<a href="/gallery/richlowe/toy.jpg">someone</a> to +<a href="/gallery/coochie_coo/coochie_coo.jpeg">modify</a> a +<a href="/gallery/richlowe/richsheep.jpg">picture</a> of +<a href="/gallery/richlowe/richlowe_for_president.jpeg">Richard</a>, or +of <a href="/gallery/misc/e_cereal.png">anyone else</a> for that matter. +</p> + +<p> +I finally got around to purchasing a CDRW, and I've been burning CDs +like mad. Somehow I managed to accumulate a couple DivX movies, so +I burned those along with a CD of mp3s for work, a full backup of my +home directory, and some other random junk. +</p> + +<p> +Pablotron is semi-broken at the moment. Snow-Man upgraded PHP on the +web server, and it seems to have broken some of my spaghetti PHP. I've +been designing a new backend for another site, and I'll probably update +it to support site themes and port Pablotron to the new backend. The +new backend is much, much cleaner than the current Pablotron one; it +makes extensive use of stylesheets, object oriented PHP, and standard +configuration files (currently only CSV, but I plan on adding XML +support in soon). Here's an example of the differences: +</p> + +<p> +<code> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/header.php"); ?><br /> +<html><br /> +<head><br /> +<title>Pablotron : Sample Page</title><br /> +</head><br /> +<br /> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/doc/top.php"); ?><br /> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/top.php"); ?><br /> +<b>Sample Page</b><br /> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/mid.php"); ?><br /> +This is a sample page.<br /> +This is a <a href="http://www.sample.com/">sample +url</a><br /> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/bot.php"); ?><br /> +<br /> +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/doc/bot.php"); ?><br /> +</html><br /> +</code> +</p> + +<p> +Under the new system, that page could be written as follows: +</p> + +<p> +<code> +<?php<br /> +require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/inc/header.php");<br /> +<br /> +$page = new Page();<br /> +$page->start("samplePage", "Sample Page");<br /> +<br /> +$page->start_item("Sample Page"); ?><br /> +This is a sample page.<br /> +This is a <?php $page->url("sampleUrl", "sample url"); ?><br /> +<?php $page->end_item();<br /> +<br /> +$page->end();<br /> +?><br /> +</code> +</p> + +<p> +Obviously the latter allows us to do all sorts of crazy things that the +former does not. Coupled with CSS, It also strengthens the distinction +between Pablotron's content and the layout. +</p> + +<p> +Some other random stuff; I whipped up a quick script to convert +<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Finance</a> stock quotes to +the GKrellM +<a href="http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~tolik/fmonitor.html">FMonitor</a> +format, so you can view stocks in GKrellM. You can download it +<a href="/download/fmstocks-0.1.0.tar.gz">here</a>. Well, there's a lot +more going on, but I have to get some sleep, so I'll try and update +again tomorrow. +</p> + |