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2004-03-07

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Posted by .com 2004-03-07 6:00:23 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'll put the sort feature on it tomorrow, if I can. But it's a kludge behind the scenes, and if it slows page loading down I'm tearing it out...

(And redoing it.)

Posted by Fred 2004-3-7 6:03:22 PM|| 2004-3-7 6:03:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Just checked it on Thursday's page (73 rants. 397 comments). Not bad. But I wonder how it works with more than 165 people online at a time?

Posted by Fred 2004-3-7 6:06:36 PM|| 2004-3-7 6:06:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred this is very cool - and I hope you'll keep it - until you find something with which you're happier, anyway. Ah, the never-ending search for s/w perfection... It's a disease! My father (and my mother, as well) was a programmer and warned me against it as an occupation. His words: "It will drive you crazy! You can't tell the difference between heaven and hell!" He was right, of course!

BTW, this will expose the goofs like NMM who seem to like coming in well after the daily rollover and post some sort of screech - that 99.9% won't see except by accident in an archival search.

Hmmm... Fred, could that practice be considered a form of intellectual necrophilia? Just wondering, heh... 8^)

Posted by .com 2004-3-7 6:22:57 PM|| 2004-3-7 6:22:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred---Just remember that last 1% to perfection will take an infinite amount of time, though I can empathize with your zeal for the holy grail. LOL! Neat feature, though. Next is a surprise meter reading on each article posted.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-3-7 6:29:14 PM|| 2004-3-7 6:29:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, Fred. I like it.

Posted by GK 2004-3-7 6:37:17 PM|| 2004-3-7 6:37:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 AP - I think that's the 90/90 Rule of Project Planning:

The first 90% of the project will consume 90% of the time & resources allocated.

The remaining 10% of the project will require the other 90%.

;-)

Posted by .com 2004-3-7 7:00:55 PM|| 2004-3-7 7:00:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it's one of the maxims that make up Murphy's Law, along with "Everything takes longer and costs more than the original estimate."

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-7 7:11:32 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-7 7:11:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred, Thanks. Some of the elderly would appreciate having it in the old font size.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-7 7:26:03 PM|| 2004-3-7 7:26:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 How's that?

Posted by Fred 2004-3-7 9:12:23 PM|| 2004-3-7 9:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Fred given this is a geek thread, can you post a URL that explains why RB gives lots of strange URLs after I post something, e.g. http://www.rantburg.com/Default.asp?ID=27586&D=3/7/2004&C=

I am constantly deleting this stuff to get the regular .com URL.

TIA, phil

Posted by Phil B 2004-3-7 9:25:33 PM|| 2004-3-7 9:25:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The ID is the identifier of the post. That's the way it's pulled from the database. D is the date of the post. The C doesn't mean anything anymore. At one point, I was using it to display pages by category, but I dropped that when I found the bug that caused me to to it in the first place.

Posted by Fred 2004-3-7 10:07:23 PM|| 2004-3-7 10:07:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred, great new feature, especially if there's a hot breaking story (like the nabbing of Saddam or Ozzy) and also in the case "dotcom" mentions when the trolls put up last-minute screeches!
You rock, my friend!
We have come to expect virtual perfection in all ways from RB!

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2004-3-7 10:23:33 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-7 10:23:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Lol! Phil_B - don't believe him! Typical spook thing... give 'em partial truth and they'll swallow the rest. Ha! The "C" parm is a secret non-displaying ASCII code which tracks... well, let's just say that this info is passed along to a 3-letter agency. Can you say Conspiracy? Hmmm?

Posted by .com 2004-3-7 10:27:34 PM|| 2004-3-7 10:27:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Very nice!

Next on the wish list: a user preference where we can say (for example) "make all the comments visible even if there are 200 rants and 1000 comments 'cause I got a sweet broadband connection". Or something like that. You hit rantburg.com, it sees your cookie, and all 1000 comments come at ya.

I really like this blog, and the code sure seems to beat Movable Type all to hell.

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-7 11:23:51 PM|| 2004-3-7 11:23:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Fred - I've got quick idea that doesn't require much, but would make a difference in readability of the top article list. Put the items in this order, instead:
Link, # comments (fmtted to 2 digits or blanks), time of last comment (hh:mm fmt of 5 blanks), last the title text.

It would be easier to scan / cleaner appearance.

Just an idea that would be relatively painless - I think!

Posted by .com 2004-3-8 12:04:03 AM|| 2004-3-8 12:04:03 AM|| Front Page Top

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