Adventures with Computers
The newest feature on our Planet is post statistics. Every time you make a post you earn 1 point. The total score within the time horizont of the Planet (the latests 15 posts within the last week) determines your order in the list of faces at the top.
The score will probably also determine the size of your face one day…
Suggestions for a better formula is of course happily accepted — patches against the SVN repository is accepted even more happily :-)
In case you haven’t noticed… the new planet is up and running. Find it here: http://mgeisler.net/. The content on that page actually comes from http://daimi.au.dk/~mg/planet/ via a mod_rewrite proxy request. This is because I gave up on making the code work on the Python 2.2 installed on my site…
I hope you like the new overview of recent activities. Of course one should be able to jump from the preview down to the full post, but this will have to do for now. If you have an accound on [DAIMI][], then feel free to checkout the code from ~mg/SVNHOME/planet and implement this before I do :-)
I’ve been playing with the Planet lately and a new version is coming soon.
It now uses the rather cool Kid template language for the templates, which ensures that the output is as close to real XHTML as possible. This also means that your feeds must be properly encoded — if not, then the content will be mercilessly dropped. That’s the new world of XML…
It might sound hard when one considers that browsers have been handling slightly-broken content for years, commonly referred to as “tag-soup”. The advantage of strict compliance to XHTML is the number of programmically transformations possible because we now require the input to be a valid XML tree.
Anyway, consider this post a sort of test-post for the new Planet. As such, I’ll start by testing the encoding of ampersands: &. WordPress ought to encode it as & in the feed, something which Blogger.com seems to forget. An alternative is to wrap the whole thing in a <![CDATA[ ... ]]> construct. This is what WordPress actually does, now comes the question: does it remember to esacpe the CDATA declaration I just made? Lots of things to consider here :-)
Yesterday I had a nice dinner at Mikkel’s new place, but unlike Rune I have no pictures to show of it…
Thomas handled the meat, Rune chopped the vegetables, and lille-Lars and I watched in exitement as the ingredients for our burgers were made ready. It was some top-notch burgers! Mikkel was busy unwrapping his new fancy-pancy square Chinese-style dishes.
I’m about to take off on my journey to Switzerland. I’ll drive down to Hamburg to catch the DB Autozug, and then drive the last bit from just north of Switzerland down to the Alps.
I’ll return in a about a week and Stéphanie will return with me! I’m looking forward to really moving in with her in our new appartment. More about that later, see you!