Feed for DAVE's World Outline

Problems with FreshAir podcast

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:21:40 GMT

At some point the feed grew to include all past podcasts.

Templates

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:15:09 GMT

As a user I set a global template that is used for every root, unless the root specifies its own template.

Flatlining bug -- trapped & fixed

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:55:07 GMT

Narrative

rules in templates

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:11:59 GMT

Templates can already have CSS styles and Javascript code and of course the skeleton of the HTML for the rendering of the data.

serverMonitor tweaks

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:03:39 GMT

The hits column on the new Domains table should be right-aligned, and the numbers should have commas, because they tend to get big.

An idea

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:49:07 GMT

An idea I got immediately after I turned off comments.

Working on templates

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:48:42 GMT

Instead of storing URLs of the templates in worldOutline.root, store the template outlines themselves in there. This allows me to use the updates mechanism to distribute changes. It's what we do. I find it confusing to have a different way of updating these. So far it's not been possible for users to change them, because the design is still not frozen.

Fixed naming mistake on 404 page

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:54:00 GMT

If you've set this pref, make sure it's still set properly.

Startup outline pref

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:53:52 GMT

It's a server preference. Click on Prefs in the World Outline menu at the top of every page on your site.

Startup outline

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:51:21 GMT

It's a server preference. Click on Prefs in the World Outline menu at the top of every page on your site.

Apache for Poets

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:14:53 GMT

If you're a developer and you're reading this, check out the proposal.

serverMonitor namecount

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:15:45 GMT

Updating the ping handler to return today's hits from all the domains on each machine.

Fix bug in op.render.viewOutline

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:10:26 GMT

Fixed a bug introduced when we added the adrInitialRulesText optimization. We have to avoid the first push when either adrInitialRules or adrInitialRulesText is non-nil.

Update outline rendering code

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:26:03 GMT

I improved the calling conventions for op.render.viewOutline after doing the initial conversion. So it's a good idea to incorporate the changes in places that call it.

Update includeOutline macro

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:24:52 GMT

Now uses the new rule-based renderer.

New stats-gathering

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:05:11 GMT

New data file, domainStats.root. Maintained by builtins.opmlEditor. It already had a webserver postfilter script. And this is really the level it belongs at. Why should it be a worldOutline function? It's quite possible other services will be running on the machine that maybe serving up stuff on domains. I'd like to see what's going on there too.

Caching outline text

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:44:57 GMT

Problem with the View button

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:59:32 GMT

I don't know if this was always wrong or if it was something I broke recently, but it's wrong.

Problems with blogspot Atom feeds

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:11:39 GMT

AC reports a problem on the River2 list.

worldoutline.scripting.com

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:56:16 GMT

Having changed all the CNAMEs that pointed to worldoutline.scripting.com to point to pensacola.scripting.com, I am now prepared to point it to a bucket on Amazon S3 and let them send the 404's to the search engines that are pounding my server with requests for pages on that silly domain.

New sample script to find all my cnames

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:11:50 GMT

Using our Amazon Route53 interface, create an outline with your domains at the top level, and underneath them, the records in each domain. I needed this to help me locate all the cnames that point to a domain that I need to move. How sweet to finally have a programmable DNS.

New built-in for generating OPML

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:04:26 GMT

A while back I noticed that OPML and Frontier tables have a lot of things in common, just like XML and tables do, and JSON and tables. I thought it would be possible to generate a struct in tables and then turn it into OPML automatically, without having to write the OPML-generating code over and over. Well it turns out it is possible.

Sample webserver callback script

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:09:12 GMT

A new "userlandsample" script that demonstrates how to write a webserver filter. It'll get a shot at every hit that comes into your server, so you can record debugging info, I think you can even change the data, though I wouldn't recommend doing that unless you're prepared for all hell to break loose. :-)

Link nodetypes in outlines

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:15:29 GMT

Re-activate code for dealing with link nodetypes.

Scrollers

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:07:24 GMT

A nice way to watch the hits come in to your server. If it start misbehaving you might have a clue which page is being accessed at the time the misbehavior happens.

Opening an outline from a Bookmark

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:01:45 GMT

If you open an outline from a command in the Bookmarks menu, it won't be marked as coming from any particular server. That means when you save it, we don't check the password in the servers table. If the password is there and is correct, there's no problem. But if somehow there is no password there, or it's not correct, the save will fail.

Finish password code

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:01:38 GMT

If the user enters an incorrect password when editing an outline, there is currently no way to recover from it other than deleting the password manually. Obviouslly this is not a good long-term approach. :-)

Code nodetype converted

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:31:01 GMT

Same deal for code nodes.

Outline nodes rendered through rules

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:13:54 GMT

Believe it or not outline nodes were not being rendered by the new rules-based renderer.

The worldoutline server Domains page

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:41:35 GMT

To pick a good candidate for moving to the new server, I need a better view of the amount of use each of the outlines is getting, and which of the domains within the outline are the most active.