Dave Winer's development work

Releasing parts

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:39:22 GMT

Minor feature enhancements in this release, very little worth noting.

Caching RSS reads

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:25:01 GMT

Allow markup in Root descriptions

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:10:35 GMT

I want the description on Worknotes pages to link from my name to my personal website. However, when I do that, the entry for that root on the Roots page gets screwed up.

River2 size limit howto

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:41:08 GMT

There's a limit

River2 database size limit

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:38:25 GMT

There's a limit to how big a Frontier object database can grow, approximately 2 gigabytes. However there are no checks internally in the database code, so when the database overflows, it generally crashes.

Comments on blogposts

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:20 GMT

I used to have comments on blogposts, but now they're not showing up.

New directory displayer

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:45:03 GMT

With the new directory displayer you get a two-level slice of the hierarchy. So if you view from the top of the worknotes site, for example, you get the months and days. Click on a month and you get the days and story titles.

VentureBeat updates a lot! :-(

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:44:01 GMT

It's notifying us five times every minute that the feed has updated. That's nice, but it's cluttering up the log and wasting bandwidth.

Open Glossary command

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:08:41 GMT

Too many steps from within the OPML Editor to open the glossary.

Breakage fixed in mainResponder

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:23:23 GMT

On 4/9/12 I added a feature that if you go to the top level of a server it redirects to the opmlEditor website.

Radio2 redirect after delete

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:11:47 GMT

Ted Howard reported that the URL that we redirect to after deleting a post is incorrect if we're using the natural URL for the Radio2 site.

Default River2 template

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:19 GMT

Using Disqus 2012

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:44:39 GMT

I don't know all the features that are in the new version of Disqus, the commenting software we use here. I thought we'd dive right in and see. If you've used it elsewhere and know what's up with it, what we should look for, feel free to post a comment.

Pref for editable menu

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:39:55 GMT

You can put a menu at the top of the HTML archive and Top-40 pages. The format of the file must be OPML. If you enable the feature, enter the URL of the OPML file and the name of the sub-outline that contains your menu.

Editable menus in static files

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:18:13 GMT

Radio2 generates two static files, the HTML archive and the Counts page.

Problems with OPML returns

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:20:00 GMT

In worldoutline, if you put format=OPML at the end of a URL, we return the OPML for the item instead of the HTML.

Serverside outline backups

Mon, 07 May 2012 22:47:07 GMT

When we switched to multiple roots, we stopped doing the automatic backup of root saves. This is not good.

Radio2: Link to feed

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:31:34 GMT

Oversight. Should have a link to the user's feed on the Top 40 page.

Radio2 html archive review/rewrite

Sun, 06 May 2012 22:56:08 GMT

The prefs are backwards, first you specify the template, then the title. The Counts page prefs are the other (correct) way.

ServerMonitor shows update time

Sun, 06 May 2012 19:03:25 GMT

The update time was all the way at the bottom of the page but it wasn't a problem before the Domains table was added.

Radio2 writeStaticFile callbacks

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:26:15 GMT

I want to store my linkblog and feed at links.scripting.com, so I need callbacks to make this happen because I'm already telling it to write to a specific S3 bucket. If I were to change where it's written all existing links will break.

Radio2 default counts page template

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:02:00 GMT

Cleaned up and modernized the default counts page template for Radio2.

urlShortener get-counts

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:15:24 GMT

Change in the way we track hitcounts in urlShortener.root.

Fixed breakage in mainResponder.respond

Sat, 05 May 2012 15:15:02 GMT

The 5/3/12 change in mainResponder.respond broke redirector.root.

How updates flow

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:31:43 GMT

When I release new code it always appears in the common feed.

Custom menus should still have dropdown

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:06:36 GMT

If I'm a signed-on user, why don't I get the dropdown menu that lets me navigate between the software components on the server?

What we do when a site goes MIA

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:46:46 GMT

We create so many sites with the worldoutline software.

Multiple menus in a root outline

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:43:38 GMT

I want to be able to have one root that has all my menus in it.

Outlines should jump on all nodes with type att

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:38:08 GMT

I just converted the home page of the threads site from a directory to an outline. Everything worked just as I wanted for the nodes of type blogpost. They showed up as links to documents, instead of the content appearing inline as part of the outline.

Improve Cmd-/ command

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:22:08 GMT

If you press cmd-/ we try to run text of the cursor object as a oneline script, as the Quick Script window does. Script objects work this way too. This allows you to create an outline of one-liners that you do a lot.