#Project

I reworked the blogchecker after

I reworked the blogchecker after having some new ideas last night. As usual Mark added the little bits I needed to finish the idea, the color decay was his idea. Here is how it works now. The bars decay in 12 hour intervals. Once the bars have decayed the color of the link lightens a shade every 24 hours over the next five days. Basically after 180 hours have passed the link is pulled from the listing. Of course, once the page is updated it pops back into the list and the decay begins again. Also now that livejournal has new servers and is actually viewable I’ve started blogchecking them.

Okay, I've got a blogchecker

Okay, I’ve got a blogchecker that runs through selected web sites in my links list and indicates their freshness. Right now they are all at five bars, but with each 12 hour time span of no updates they lose a bar. When one of those sites loses all it’s bars a random landmark in Los Angeles will be blown up by a bomb I have planted. So keep those blogs updated folks. I’m checking every hour for updates. I don’t have checking turned on for any of my livejournal friends because livejounal is so prone to overload already. I’m sure they don’t need me adding to their already overloaded and unviewable web servers.

It's heeeeerreeee. I've been hit

It’s heeeeerreeee.

I’ve been hit by the coding mania. I’ve been waiting for this to hit me again for quite some time. It’s this awesome feeling where I don’t have to sleep and I can be in front of the computer for hours, days even. It’s got its weird side effects. I pace in the shower. I’ve chewed my finger nails down to nubs. That’s okay though. It’s a great feeling. I caught it last night when I wrote the Blogmailer program. I don’t like the way the code looks though so I really want to rewrite it and make it pretty, especially some of the perl regexs I’m using. Right now it needs a lot more exception handling put in. That’s definitely not one of perl’s strongpoints, and I’m not up to speed on perl’s more esoteric functionality.

This is the first real

This is the first real test of blogmailer. Right now it should handle processing multi-paragraph emails into the proper number of

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I’m not quite sure how to handle the blogid, username and password processing things. I’m thinking that I will put some sort of which it parses out. Maybe the blogid should be fixed with the appkey and you only have to put the username and password in the email. I wonder if I should also put in the auto publish thing?

My armor carries the blood

My armor carries the blood of my enemies as I emerge from the battlefield victorious. I have faced the Blogger gods and come through with my head bloodied but unbowed. I am now using Blogger to publish XML files and then doing all the HTML translations with XSLT and Cocoon on my server. It’s taken about four hours, most of that building the XSLT file, but it has been worth it. I haven’t had such a resounding victory against the machine in quite some time. At the very least it has taken my mind off of her.