Sjoerd Visscher's weblog - w3future.com

Adam gets a radio show. And guess what, we're going to integrate his show with our Radio show. This is so cool. The Netherlands is leading the way. [Scripting News]

Yes, we (the Dutch) always do... No, really!

hmm. it works. weird.

trying out 8.0.2 again.

Hmmm. 8.0.2 crashes when upstreaming. 8.0.1 does not. Investigating...

Testing the mug!

Testing w3future.com's xmlStorageSystem

and another one

another test

Testing Manila publishing.

It works! Great.

Does storing the colors work now? Let's test!

I've created a color editor to make it easier to find different colors for my website. It doesn't save anything yet, and I don't know what to do with the logo.

Testing...

The sidebar on the left is now generated from an OPML file:

The script then generates this piece of javascript code:

weblogSidebar={
  'What I read':[
    {style:'button2', content:'Jake\'s Brainpan',
      gonew:'http://jake.editthispage.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Joel on Software',
      gonew:'http://joel.editthispage.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Lambda the Ultimate',
      gonew:'http://lambda.weblogs.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'markpasc_blog',
      gonew:'http://markpasc.org/blog/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'owrede_log',
      gonew:'http://owrede.khm.de/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Scripting News',
      gonew:'http://www.scripting.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'XMLHack',
      gonew:'http://www.xmlhack.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'<b>All sources</b>',
      gonew:'http://w3future.com/html/weblogsources.html'}
  ]
  ,'Friends/Family':[
    {style:'button2', content:'Joeri',
      gonew:'http://joeri.mulder.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Marco',
      gonew:'http://www.maggerydoo.net/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Jelle',
      gonew:'http://uitdeschaduw.blogspot.com/'}
    ,{style:'button2', content:'Q42',
      gonew:'http://www.q42.nl/'}
  ]
};

The template contains a script that creates the buttons from the data. I named the opmlfile #sidebar.opml. The # means that files in subdirectories can have their own sidebar links, but they default to the one from the parent directory.

Testing categories. Let's start with checking all of them.

Is there a problem with the Userland staticSiteStats server? Every radio.weblogs.com page I go to, and even scripting.com, leaves the browser status bar saying: "(1 item remaining) Download picture http://subhonker6.userland.com/staticSiteStats/count.gif?...."

The new Radio Feed Top-100 has much higher numbers than the old list has ever had. I'm in it too. Higher than Joel on Software. That can't be right. Oh, wait, it's the old RSS URL. For all the Joel fans, it's here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml. (Joel should read this.)

Alan A. Reiter complains that it's too complicated in RU to change the template for a non-programmer. He's right, I guess. (I'm not a non-programmer). But RU is improving, and I wouldn't be surprised if the next version of RU would indeed have easier template images support and a better navigator links interface. (XML *is* too complicated for something as simple as that.)