Friday, March 28, 2003

More upstreaming changes

We've made some more changes to the upstreaming CPU usage improvements released on Wednesday. This release includes a fix for a problem where pictures posted through the myPictures Tool would take a long time to upstream. It also fixes a bug which could cause files in deeply nested sub-folders to take a long time to upstream. If you're comfortable running beta software, see this message on the radio-dev mail list for instructions. 17:59'22    comment [] categories: Jake's Radio dev-notes

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Beta: Radio upstreaming CPU usage improvements

We've been working on some enhancements to Radio's upstreaming implementation, which make it much more CPU-friendly. We've released the changes as a beta, so we can flesh out any problems before releasing through the root updates process. We welcome your help testing the changes. If you're comfortable running beta software, please follow the instructions in this message on the radio-dev mail list. 16:57'45    comment [] categories: Jake's Radio dev-notes

Thursday, January 30, 2003

New Radio feature for testing: Backup/Restore user interface

I just posted a note to the radio-dev list: "We've got a new feature for testing: A user interface for doing a full backup/restore of your weblog posts, templates, stories, preferences and aggregator subscriptions..." There's also a new preference page for configuring automatic nightly backups. It's a beta -- please help us test it out, but only if you're someone who's comfortable running beta software... 18:16'25    comment [] categories: Jake's Radio dev-notes

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Dave quotes Julian Bond: "It would be even better to see Radio provide an optional setting to auto-fill the Link tag with the Permalink of the item." Julian, thanks for being so patient. We will do this. I would have done it myself yesterday but I hit a snag. We just finished this feature. There's a new section on the docs page for the Titles and Links feature, describing how it works. 16:32'08    comment [] categories: Jake's Radio dev-notes

Thursday, February 21, 2002

Question for HTML FORM experts out there: In HTML 4.0, the FORM element supports an accept-charset attribute. What I'd like to know is whether, if I specify ISO-8859-1, what browsers will actually send me what I asked for? On what platforms? Specifically, if I type an em-dash or a curly quote into a form, will I get a translated character (hyphen for em-dash or quote for curly-quote), or will the browser send the Windows CP-1252 "extension", which can't be represented in ISO-8859-1? Michael Sajac has some notes over here which are related to this topic as it applies to Radio and Manila. 00:47'07    comment [] categories: Jake's Radio dev-notes