- Dear international friends!#
- Experiment 3 is ready to go, I hope, I think, I pray. ;-)#
- http://scripting.com/code/testing/experiment3/?name=cluelessnewbie#
- When you test it out on your blog, just change "cluelessnewbie" to your username.#
- The first time it builds your blog it might take a few seconds.#
- When it's ready it will respond with a link to the test version of your blog. The real version, the one your readers see, is not changed by this experiment. This is all happening in a temporary space. Just for this test. No actual blogs were harmed.#
- The thing to do then is to look it over and see if it got the timezone stuff right. And then look for any other errors. There has been a lot of rock and roll in Old School behind the scenes, but from your point of view it should be the same Old School you love (I hope) but without the timezone foolishness.#
- Then, try adding a post, and do it again. Did it work?#
- Then, assuming you live east of New York -- India, Malaysia, China, Australia, New Zealand and the like, wait until it's the 29th where you are and it's still the 28th here. Of if you're in Europe and you act pretty fast, you can post something just after midnight or so, and it'll be a good test because then it will still be the 27th here.#
- What you should see is what you would expect based on where you are.#
- Please keep us apprised of what's happening by posting a comment here.#
- Well, here's something that works.#
- My cluelessnewbie blog thinks it's in New Zealand where it is already the 28th.#
- That's nice. Now can you build the home page for such a blog?#
- Yes, we can.#
- And can we build an archive page for such a blog, even though the server is in NY where it is still the 27th? Wellllll...#
- Ohhh yes.#
- Note this is in a test server running locally. #
Anton found a data-losing bug yesterday. Unfortunately I'm head-down right now on getting international blogs working properly, it's a big job that must be done, or else I would join Anton in figuring out what went wrong in this case. #- Meanwhile there is still a data-losing problem that was uncovered by Scott Hanson ten days ago, similarly I have not been able to focus on that. But these are big issues. #
- Also yesterday, a report from gwthompson that the Delete file command deleted a file when he pressed Cancel. I could not reproduce, and after a time, it stopped misbehaving on his machine. If you can confirm, that would be helpful. As always, steps to reproduce are essential. I might just rewrite the confirmation code, it could use it. Caveat: Only test with files you can afford to lose! 😄#
- Software maintenance is a lot like working on a car, or a human body. Sometimes parts wear out after years of use. You then have to roll up your sleeves and figure out what happened, and fix it. In software, unlike cars and humans, you always can fix it, but sometimes it's easier than others. A teaser, I came across some features in Old School that people have been asking for that I forgot were there. I will save those to write up for when I'm done with this project.#
- One more thing, I saw on a Drummer blog (I don't recall which one) someone said that adding links to outline text is very hard and that Markdown is easier. I wonder if people don't know how easy it is in Drummer. Here's how you do it...#
- To add a link select the word or phrase you want to link from, click the link icon in the left edge (it's the second one), paste the URL into the dialog and click OK. That's it. #
- The feature is documented. #
- I can't wait to be done with what has turned into a fairly major rewrite that is necessary. #
- Dear international friends!#
- Experiment 3 is ready to go, I hope, I think, I pray. ;-)#
- http://scripting.com/code/testing/experiment3/?name=cluelessnewbie#
- When you test it out on your blog, just change "cluelessnewbie" to your username.#
- The first time it builds your blog it might take a few seconds.#
- When it's ready it will respond with a link to the test version of your blog. The real version, the one your readers see, is not changed by this experiment. This is all happening in a temporary space. Just for this test. No actual blogs were harmed.#
- The thing to do then is to look it over and see if it got the timezone stuff right. And then look for any other errors. There has been a lot of rock and roll in Old School behind the scenes, but from your point of view it should be the same Old School you love (I hope) but without the timezone foolishness.#
- Then, try adding a post, and do it again. Did it work?#
- Then, assuming you live east of New York -- India, Malaysia, China, Australia, New Zealand and the like, wait until it's the 29th where you are and it's still the 28th here. Of if you're in Europe and you act pretty fast, you can post something just after midnight or so, and it'll be a good test because then it will still be the 27th here.#
- What you should see is what you would expect based on where you are.#
- Please keep us apprised of what's happening by posting a comment here.#
- Well, here's something that works.#
- My cluelessnewbie blog thinks it's in New Zealand where it is already the 28th.#
- That's nice. Now can you build the home page for such a blog?#
- Yes, we can.#
- And can we build an archive page for such a blog, even though the server is in NY where it is still the 27th? Wellllll...#
- Ohhh yes.#
- Note this is in a test server running locally. #
- Anton found a data-losing bug yesterday. Unfortunately I'm head-down right now on getting international blogs working properly, it's a big job that must be done, or else I would join Anton in figuring out what went wrong in this case. #
- Meanwhile there is still a data-losing problem that was uncovered by Scott Hanson ten days ago, similarly I have not been able to focus on that. But these are big issues. #
- Also yesterday, a report from gwthompson that the Delete file command deleted a file when he pressed Cancel. I could not reproduce, and after a time, it stopped misbehaving on his machine. If you can confirm, that would be helpful. As always, steps to reproduce are essential. I might just rewrite the confirmation code, it could use it. Caveat: Only test with files you can afford to lose! 😄#
- Software maintenance is a lot like working on a car, or a human body. Sometimes parts wear out after years of use. You then have to roll up your sleeves and figure out what happened, and fix it. In software, unlike cars and humans, you always can fix it, but sometimes it's easier than others. A teaser, I came across some features in Old School that people have been asking for that I forgot were there. I will save those to write up for when I'm done with this project.#
- One more thing, I saw on a Drummer blog (I don't recall which one) someone said that adding links to outline text is very hard and that Markdown is easier. I wonder if people don't know how easy it is in Drummer. Here's how you do it...#
- To add a link select the word or phrase you want to link from, click the link icon in the left edge (it's the second one), paste the URL into the dialog and click OK. That's it. #
- The feature is documented. #
- I can't wait to be done with what has turned into a fairly major rewrite that is necessary. #