Category: Meta

Improvements underway to glitch.tl software

From time to time I make changes to the software. I am coding slowly because I want to keep the software as simple and lean as possible.

2009-07-25: RSS feeds

RSS feeds have been fixed now. Most pages have an RSS feed. The best way to subscribe to a feed is to submit the page URL to your feed reader. The reader will read the link to the feed in the html head block.

2009-07-27: Search function

The search function is working now. It greps the XML article files and produces a list of matching articles and their categories. I am working on an RSS feed for search results.

2009-07-28: Title

Article pages now include the title. Previously this field was only shown in previews and the RSS feeds.

2009-08-28: Style sheet for mobiles

To improve rendering of this site in Midori on the openmoko I have added a new simplified style sheet for devices with small screens. I am following the advice in this page which is a little bit more complex than I would like, but I will see how it goes.

2009-10-03: New icon

The arrival of my x-rays from the Royal Melbourne Hospital gave me inspiration for a new icon for this site. It is a picture of my right humerus from about a month ago, following my cycling accident. This bone actually looks a lot better now than it did then.

2010-01-07: Search function fixed

I just noticed the search function was broken. The problem was in the $PATH for cgi processes. It was unable to access /usr/pkg/bin which is where hg and xsltproc are located.

Its a bit weird because I can't think of where the regression came from. Anyway its fixed now.

Direct link to this article: http://glitch.tl/glitch_code_enhancements.html