WB. Updated.

Published by jim on 9/30/2005 in events

Holy cow that took *way* longer than it should have. Too many distractions during the upgrade I guess (having to resolve a Verizon billing dispute was probably the biggest unanticipated variable during the upgrade process).

Anyway, it’s like rolling around in a fresh set of sheets. Or playing with new guitar strings. I like it but can’t wait til it gets a bit more broken in.

What’s New:

  • The layout. I lifted it from a wordpress templates site and replaced the graphics, tweaked the css, etc.
  • The del.ico.us links. I hacked up some existing php scripts, put a unique index on the wp_posts table and setup a cron job. Now I should get a daily entry that gets updated throughout the day with del.icio.us linkage.
  • The flickr stuff. I added some scripting to grab random pics from the public photos of WB contributors. Don’t see yours there? Well setup a flickr account and publish some photos.
  • Misc tweaks. Improved the audioscrobbler script I wrote for better caching and limits to 1 track per wb author. Also massaged the netflix rss feed. Improved the archive navigation by adding a calendar. Basically just stuff that had been getting on my nerves for the past few months.

Update
Also, I installed a few more plugins. The “recently commented” gutter is a bit cooler now, i think. Also, WB users who are logged in when commenting will not have to wait for approval when they submit a comment that would typically get flagged for approval.

Hope you dig the new look.

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  1. 1 Ken Youens-Clark
    9/30/2005 at 6:15 pm

    Jim,

    Absolutely gorgeous! I love the picture of the North Pavilion at the top! One comment is that the borders of the text boxes on the reply form are very hard to see.

    Rock on,

    ky

  2. 2 jim
    9/30/2005 at 7:52 pm

    Perhaps this is a bit better?

  3. 3 chris
    10/1/2005 at 10:21 am

    just signed onto audioscrobbler(last fm) and del.isio.us.
    now how do i link it to the blog so the blog knows what i am listening or not to.
    also, i added ken, jim and nav as friends if you’ll have me.

  4. 4 jim
    10/3/2005 at 1:33 pm

    I noticed that the page is rendering a little weird in IE on windows. Not that bringing joy to the miserable lives of windows users matters. At all ;-) But I’ll massage the css later tonight and see if i can fix the too-narrow right gutter problem that a few folks have reported.

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