August 30, 2001

Well … Tyran pointed out a few more bugs and certain things that could be improved in Blog yesterday and so there’s lots for me to do :p Plus, I’ve decided to merge the Blog and BlogPlus source code since it is going to get harder and harder to maintain two different sets of sources. Of course, this will mean that I will have to go to a two distro format – a full install and an upgrade – so as to keep the download size minimal for existing users but I think that’s worth it 🙂 This means that I will not be doing a release of BlogPlus but be doing something along the lines of Blog 5.0 beta 1 or Blog 5.0 PR1 as soon as I get the last few features that I want to add in and get the bugs sorted out.

The spell checker and thesaurus aren’t by any means the only new additions I want for Blog 5.0 however. I want to add a new < $BlogCookie> tag which will insert a random or sequential cookie into the blog from an internal database. This however, again brings up the whole bloat vs. feature debate since I’m not sure that everybody would want that particular feature. So what I’m contemplating at the moment is sort of a compromise – I will have the < $BlogCookie> tag and the cookie insertion feature in Blog but I will not have a UI for cookie management in Blog since that would have been the source of a major size-jump in Blog. Instead, I am thinking of coding a new Fortune Cookie app which will provide all the cookie management functionality for Blog and allow you to even have an automated signature generator 🙂 Blog and this new app will share the same database and people who want cookie functionality will have to download both but for others, there shouldn’t be too much of a size increase in Blog. What do you think?

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Posted by Fahim at 8:05 am   Comments (6)

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Phil 30 August 2001 at 4:08 am

Cookies……yum! =)

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Tyran 30 August 2001 at 4:33 am

I’m curious about the uses driving the concept. I’m sure there must be sound reasoning behind but my limited exposure to cookie use is not helping me see it.

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Tyran 30 August 2001 at 4:34 am

That should say "driving the <$BlogCookie> concept"….

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Phil 30 August 2001 at 11:41 pm

Ah – blame me! I just thought it would be cool to be able to use an external reference to generate random quotes (just like you can for email) and tie those in to a journal. It’s a ‘fun’ feature designed to brighten up any journal using it. There shouldn’t be any real bloat attached to it because it’s not doing anything dramatically different to the current external template system.

I am just waiting on Fahim’s upload of the new build to see exactly how he has implemented it, so some of that (above) is assumption ahead of the fact. =)

Phil.

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Greg Mitchell 31 August 2001 at 3:58 am

Quite a few weblogs have a similar feature – ie. look at Slashdot.org – right at the bottom, there’s a random quote.

Greg

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Tyran 31 August 2001 at 5:18 am

Gotcha…cookie plus anything to do with Internet usage always meant . . . well, you know, cookies.&nbps; Now that I have had the good fortune to have been introduced to fortune cookies, I’m feeling sort of . . .well, hungry!

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