Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
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Friday, Jul 04 2008, 04:16 pm
Apr 05, 2006
What I've Done, Cont.

The title of this article was once the title of my weekly status reports at Stanford. At Netscape/iPlanet/AOL/Time-Warner/Whatever, it became 'What We've Done, Cont.', since I was also pushing status reports for all my direct reports up the food chain.

So here's what's new in the weblog recently (about the last three days). Forums landed a few days ago. It took a bit of tweaking to make them happily co-exist with everything else. Then I added the ability to send a private untraceable email to another member. Then I added forum categories. Then I implemented RSS feeds for forums. Then an indicator to flag forums that have been updated since your last visit. What else.... Oh yeah.... Then I ripped out the htdig search engine which can't really handle multiple domains with lots and lots of redundant links  and wrote a native search instead (which can). Then I added some more voluntary member profile information. Moved the 'wizard' link off the front page to a place where it will only be seen by wizards. Generated a few more large avatars. Created a paginator (prev-page 1 2 3 4 5 ... next-page) for huge result sets. 

Fixed the javascript image list which appears to have broken when I installed the session driver a few weeks ago. It also seems that the post 'ping' script was trouncing the article title if you performed a specific series of steps.

Added several new domain names to the community and configured settings and initial skins for several of them.

I think that's all the big stuff. Some code cleanup and optimization along the way.

I'm tired. Good night for now..

   

 

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