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02/08/2004 - THE SPEEEEEEEEEEEED!
So I spent some time optimizing the WebLog today, and I think that I've managed to triple the performance of the site. Pages now load in 10 or less database hits, page times are usually under half a second and the site is compacter, with the new look calendar.
The site now flies along at a tremendous pace, providing a much smoother browsing experience and a lower strain on the server. Nice.
02/08/2004 - Wow, look. No really.
Two new themes folks. classic II and basic. Give them a whirl, tell me what you tink.
All input welcome.
29/01/2002 - Ahhhhhhhh
OK folks, great things are afoot. I suggest you read the commands section of the features menu and that you check out the questions that have been posed so far. Enjoy!
29/01/2002 - Nappy You Hear (1st January 2002, 12:12:21 am - Dusk)
Great things are afoot. As suspected, the new flexibility of the command system has opened up some new avenues. For starters the news page has moved into the new features section. Hopefully this'll make more people check it.
Secondly there will be a new guide to how to use the commands system. This is going to be damn handy as there are a lot of things that people will be able to do with commands. A dictionary will be required.
Thirdly, watch this space!
17/12/2001 - Nearly Forgot
A quick status update: When you sign up now, you get a message sent back to yourself with confirmation of who you are. I've added a little bit more information to the howto screen so that it actually makes more sense. If you send in a 100th message you will get a surprise. If you send in a 500th message, you will get a bigger surprise. If you send in a 1000th message, you will get the bigest surprise of the three. Just wait and see. Tee hee!
17/12/2001 - It's A Family Affair
Apart from cheesy puns, we now have an entire raft of siblings who are webloggers. Might I say hello to Caffy, BuckEye and, a familiar face, Dusk.
Welcome, one and all.
30/11/2001 - Better themes for better living
Now then, now then, there's a new theme mangement tool on the loose. This one allows you to preview themes before making the available to the general public. The concept of theme codes is out the window. Themes merely need to have a unique name now. If you make one of your own themes unavailable then nobody but you can use it, so you can preview your theme before making it fit for public consumption. And finally the uploading of theme files is now fixed, thanks to a crafty chmod.
Ladies and gents, I thank you.
30/11/2001 - Vix, tricks and hot licks.
And for something completely different. We now have a new theme, vix, and the calendar build time has been decreased dramatically by the addition of an index to the database. There's also been a minor alteration to the login system, so that once you've logged in, you stay logged in. A few bits a pieces have moved but otherwise, business as usual. Just quicker, and better looking. Again.
23/11/2001 - Pick and Choose
And now you can choose wether or not to display the little bits of text after a person's name. Upon request of Joel this is now an option. Hope you like it and make use of it. Please. Now.
23/11/2001 - Rant-o-meter
The newest addition to the weblog is the rant-o-meter. This is an extra part of the stats page that shows who has the most consecutive messages on the log (otherwise known as a rant). At the time of writing the current winner is Dusk with 31. Quite a target to beat...
18/11/2001 - Profanitise my b**ch up
For all of you who think that the weblog is too tame, there is now a new profanity engine installed. This will convert the lame and pasty postings into f**k stained sh*t prose of maximum offensive value.
What you have to do is login and set the profanity to maximum for full effect. Anything less will have no effect. You have been warned.
22/10/2001 - New code entry
So I've re-written the code that enters the messages into the log. It now runs as a daemon process written entirely using the Gnokii::GSM module. Entry time is now down to 10 seconds. Sweet.
11/10/2001 - This is not wood
OK, so the server has been moved to a new home in Manchester. I'd like to be sorry that there is a temporary break in service but it was this or the alternative, and the alternative was bad.
So, hopefully the site should be up and running properly within a day or two. It wasn't just the blog that was affected but the entire server so I also send my apologies to the people who also host on this machine. Raas.
5/10/2001 - Upgrade-o-matic
Re-wrote the build_calendar function completely. It now builds the calendar based on days, not messages. This means that it will scale a lot better and also that it builds the calendar in under a third of the time of the previous function. Now that's what I call music!
3/10/2001 - A little give and take
OK people, we're now running a nice little competition. Whoever sends in every 100th entry will receive a pearl of wisdon from the log. Just you try it and see.
29/9/2001 - More, more, more!
Newest addition: It's now possible to have as many floating descriptions as you want. You can just keep adding more and more. Until you get bored, or until I rm -rf the whole system. Again. So, you'd better login and have a peek, before I somehow manage to break it.
26/9/2001 - Aaaaaaaaaaaaragh!
Why do I keep doing this? Mental note to self: rm -rf /* is a very bad thing to ever write in a piece of code. Avoid at all costs.
For those who weren't aware, that was a command that I ran in a shell script on this machine last night. It then promptly removed /bin, /boot, /dev and /etc. Without these folders your machine cannot, respectively, do anything, start up, read or write to any device (including terminals, hard-drives, floppy drives, serial ports, etc) or let anyone login. After a severe 4 hours in front of a terminal I think I have reclaimed everything that might have been broked. If anyone finds anything broken in this machine, please let me know ASAP and I'll get on the case.
Once more, sorry for the outage.
23/9/2001 - Targets hit
Finished. Now we have DB driven theme engine with user logins, preferences sections and stylesheet editing. Sweet. Go and login and check it out.
22/9/2001 - Enhancements
Minor enhancements made today, optimised the calendar builder. Carved a full 0.1 of a second off the build time. Thinking about ways to cache the months gone by to make it even quicker, although I suspect it'll just mean a longer build through reading information off disk, as opposed to manipulating in-core data. We'll see. Thinking about putting this news page in a database, although I'll need to write some admin functionality into the page in order to do that, which is something that I really don't enjoy doing. The theme engine is now database driven, with a view to allowing users to upload their own themes. This is the bit I'm really looking forward to implementing. I'll mail Zeldman a copy of Joel's CSS structure document and ask him if he can do a guest theme. Should be good...
22/9/2001 - White out of the question
The antithesis to g r e y s c a l e p a r a d i s e is now available for public consumption. Please, all ye cometh, indulge in visitation toward blanco
19/9/2001 - Phase 2 - Domination
Welcome, to weblogeddon. Please consult Joel
This is the all-new, Hopwood enhanced WebLog2. It is the result of meticulous proxy-application of the ghiaplau principle. And we like it. All new code, all new layout and, quite frankly, bleeding edge CSS. It just gets better...
2/9/2001 - Design Awards
g r e y s c a l e p a r a d i s e theme now available, courtesy of Joel