Fifty Little Projects in Fifty Weeks
As I mentioned in yesterday s blog post I needed to write a gadget that would create a mail gateway row in the database in response to someone asking for a comment link Writing the apache handler to do that took about six minutes three longer than it should because I had a pernicious typo that I failed to
Read more →I intend to step away from working on the blog software for a few days and get back to Android programming Hello Diabolical Industries I have a truckload of good intentions here in case you want a new road One of the negative aspects of my mania is When I get the urge to work on something it is
Read more →I intend to step away from working on the blog software for a few days and get back to Android programming With that in mind yesterday evening I did a little design work This morning I got an early start and cleaned up many little nagging irregularities The web server processes no longer run as myself but as nobody
Read more →And now you have it I just POSTed an article to the blog over the network This posting is technically the second the first was a test post to a non published feed Next step is posting more than a single file of HTML but an entire package Last time I looked into this there were two natural options
Read more →Last night I decided it was time to take another concrete step towards putting the part of the system called The Beast for what it s worth that writes the individual post content into the spool directory onto the colo machine This is a preface to having the post process actually involve an HTTP POST operation Yesterday the process
Read more →Not a ton of code today I spent most of the morning shift tweaking the site and exploring the world of Bootstrap a little more The biggest change is that nearly all of the content on the site comes via a handful of Atom feeds Some are world readable like blog and release and others are unpublished internal feeds
Read more →I found enough slack time during our friend s visit that I was able to do some amazing things Based on some advice from my pal KTS he recommended a Responsive HTML library named Bootstrap With that pointer and a little googling I found a libre blog template from a site StartBootstrap I downloaded it and it took me
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