Chemical Irony » update

New Theme Added

jdrames — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:57:09 +0000

Well as is obvious I’ve added the new theme/design to the site. I will be working on tweaking things here and there as I go along and getting up a few banners.

I won’t be able to go through all the old posts to update them with pretty pictures but I will do a quick few and going forward I will ask that images be included for posts so that it gives a nice feel and look to the site.

I am also working with a Featured post. The post that is listed for/as a featured post will be up for at least one full day minimum. The feature will remain up until the next feature is added to the site and replaces the old one.

Also Legos may find their way onto the site as Edwin and I discuss some comic use for our mini yellow men.

Updating the Cloud

jdrames — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:51:03 +0000

The Cloud has been updated. For those of you who are unsure of what “The Cloud” is, it is that section of the most used tags for posts. It is displayed on the right side bar.

The update has changed the way the list of words were displayed. Before it was just a list of links that took up a bit of space. Now they have been put into an animated sphere. This allows for a static foot print size. As the list grows in size the the list will not take up more side bar space. Instead they will increase the population of the sphere.

Twitters Geotagging

jdrames — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:38:36 +0000

So it would appear that Twitters API based geotagging has gone live. Though it appears that for the moment it is only applicable really by 3rd part applications built for Twitter. The geotagging will allow users to opt-in on their Twitter settings to allow the 3rd party twitter applications that support geotagging to add your location information to your tweets. This will allow your friends to have a rough idea of your location at the time of the message. I could foresee this being both good and bad. You know for those times when you say you’re helping someone out and a tweet comes in saying your actually at home catching the latest episode of a show.

For a full read up on it from the twitter blog hit up the read link.

Read: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/think-globally-tweet-locally.html

Mail Blog Update

jdrames — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:17:15 +0000

Well I’ve finalized a few lines of code and the mail blog system should be completed. There was a glitch with the mail system that would cause a delay in when a message was marked for moving from the inbox to a processed folder. However that now being addressed should allow for the posts to roll through the mail system fine.

That being said this post will be a test of this new system. It is being sent via email and will serve to let me know if the scripts are working correctly. If not I shall look further into the issue. However I’m fairly certain that I have cleaned up the duplication errors.

The script uses a site-key/user authentication system to ensure the emails are from a valid user. Once validated the users post is processed, added to the site, and the message moved to a processed folder if for any reason a future revision is done which requires the re-posting of information.

Well that’s my update.

Mail System Update

jdrames — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:25:10 +0000

Very quick update. Hopefully.

The short of it is that the system has been updated to run the cron reports every 30 minutes. This should give the system enough time to process the files/emails and send all the needed commands. Then clear the cache in the cron system.

Will be keeping my fingers crossed and check in the morning.

Mail Blog

jdrames — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:12:00 +0000

Well I have been working hard on back end scripts to make my writers lives easier and faster. One such feature is that of the mail in system. Where the user can email over a their stories and updates and the system will in turn check for those posts. This has been going ok so far. But seems as though the system likes to cache a portion of the cron job that checks for the mail and send it on through multiple times.

Kind of a pain. But I think I’ll have it hammered out by the end of the week. Will try to update again here soon.