Weblog gui tweaks
Today I also made some tweaks to the layout of my weblog. It's really nice like this. Some extra space between post of another day and earlier posts.
Archive for July 2004
Radio Interview
The radio interview is done. I've put on the website of the roadtrip. It's dutch, so I think not everybody will be able to listen.
The Roadtrip
Saturday we're going on a roadtrip to Italy. But first we're photographed by a photographer of the Meppeler Courant on thursday. Why they want to do it, is a mystery to me, but Ruben and Sander kept pushing for it.
On Friday, Ruben and Sander are interviewed by Radio Drenthe. I'm not sure if it's is live, but they're interviewed at 11:00. If you want to know their radio frequency you should take a look at their website.
It wasn't possible to make a link to them, because they use redirection to put every incoming request to the index page. I'm sorry, but that is just shit. Also the use of frames is evil. Especially since they are trying to be accesible. (see: Drempels weg)
SpringLayout is really nice
Today I was creating some panels for webshop manager program I'm creating. I used SpringLayout for this. It's really nice, also because I found a class called SpringUtils on java.sun.com somewhere in a tutorial. With this class you can connect the components on a page. And they will be shown in a table-like fashion. At last it's possible, for me, to create nice and professionally looking interfaces using java.
But the strange thing is that when I tried to create the same interface using gtk, I was done in a about five minutes.
GridBagLayout is evil!!
Yesterday I found an animation on the web. It will show you why gridbags are evil. It's briljant. Especially because I coding a GUI myself, yesterday. An I was about to use the gridbag and the memory came back to me...
Forum improvements
It's still needed to create a better forum. I've have installed a forum on the roadtrip website, but their is nobody that posts a message.
I would be nice if someone would post a message, but if you need to register to read the forum, a lot of people will not try it. Some people have done research on this. And I think it's true. There was also a problem with some cookie stuff, so people couldn't login.
Now I want to make the login code optional for everything. So that you don't have to login even for posting messages. Maybe then people are going to post some messages.
The roadtrip
In about 10 days, four of my friends and I, are going on a roadtrip. We've bought an 10 year old van. With this van we're going to make a trip to Geneve, Italy and Croatia and back. We're are probably going to make some movies to show, when we're back.
I think I'm going to make some notes about when we're on our way. Al least when I've a place to connect to my computer.
I still need an web form to create new entries.
Changes to the blog
As you can see my blog is powered by Bryar. It can be found on CPAN. I made some changes to Bryar that I liked. I'm not sure what to do with these changes. Should I give them back to the owner, or not? It's more like a it works for me hack.
I added the following items to the software.
- Wiki formatting using Text::KwikiFormatish
- Separated datadir and entrydir.
- Simple
attr_accessor,attr_reader(like ruby) functions
These items are really nice to have I think. There is some other stuff that would be nice.
- Use of links to the baseurl of your webserver. (like:
/index.html). - That the ordering of the entries doesn't change, when you change it.
- Because Bryar uses the modification time of an entry.
- It would be better to use the filename of the entry, especially of you use the my elisp bryar entry maker. It's nice that this software can be changed so easily.
Emacs to the rescue
Now I've a blog, but it's not easy to add an item. To make it somewhat easy, I have created an elisp functions in emacs to create an entry.