Category: blogging

Posts about blogging (rather self referential don’t you think)

Standard no more!

Posted on by david

Karl said: You should change your blog search field to use the new <input type=”search” /> attribute in Safari

So I did. If you are using Safari 1.3 or later the search field should look like this:

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It will store your 10 most recent searches (accessible by clicking on the little disclosure triangle beside the magnifying glass). Nothing to fear for other browser users though, it’ll degrade nicely to a plain textfield on any browser that doesn’t recognize the type="search" attribute.

Karl also says:

You can add it to a WOTextField in WebObjects too, just add these bindings:

  • autosave = “autosave-name”; // the name under which to save the previous searches in defaults
  • results = 10; // the number of previous searches to save
  • type = “search”; // the input type (required)
  • placeholder = “my placeholder”; // the grey text in the box when it’s empty and doesn’t have focus.

Changes

Posted on by david

I haven’t blogged much recently. I’ve been kinda busy.

I started a new full-time gig (no Codebase is not dead, just scaled back a little), I started riding my bike (10km both ways… uphill) to my new full-time gig (can we say butt pain?), and we’ve been doing a lot of work around the house (Mmmm hiding decrepit plaster work, fun!).

I have a couple of WebObjects articles I want to post, and Dave M has a couple of suggestions for extensions to the Cyrus articles that I should add too.

I just need to figure out how to make the time to write them up.

I won’t however, be talking much about the office. That’s not what this blog is about, and I don’t think it’s a CEA (Career Enhancing Activity) 🙂 But I am working on some cool projects with some cool people. I’m sure some interesting WebObjects techniques (that aren’t full of trade secrets) should fall out of that.

RSS Full Posts!

Posted on by david

Well, the response has been quite overwhelming. Our servers were flooded with responses to our query and we had to buttress our LAN room with spare timber to prevent it from collapsing. Thankfully the hardware held and our representatives from PriceWaterhouseCoopers spent the morning tallying the results.

We know you are you are all waiting with baited breath for the results so we will try not to delay. The voting was close and although we did have to discard several votes due to dangling chads We think we have a winner.

We held a minor ceremony here at reBeLog headquarters, toasted the future, drank some vino, and threw the switch:

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The RSS feed should now contain full articles!

RSS Full Posts?

Posted on by david

Tom Bridge asks:

“Any chance I could get you to run full feeds of your posts in your RSS and not just titles?”

Some of my posts can get rather long so currently the RSS feed is set to summarize which either truncates the post or (if I provide one) shows the excerpt.

I don’t really care one way or another but I’m willing to put this to a vote. Do you want me to continue summarizing the RSS feeds, or do you want the full posts? I’ll give this post a week and then make my decision. The majority vote in the comments will win (only one vote per person please).

Alternately, if anyone knows of a WordPress template that will provide a separate full post RSS feed along with the default one let me know and I’ll look at implementing it.