A new version of metadate is available. This version changes the paths in the external metadate file. They used to be the full path of the file, now they are the path starting from $blosxom::datadir. This should make it easier to relocate the $blosxom::datadir (or have a blosxom installation on your desktop machine for testing)
Download metadate 0.0.2 Be sure to rename it to “metadate”
Documentation is available here.
This plugin lets you put metadates in an external file. This is especially useful when you want to specify metadates for files which can’t contain metadates themselves, such as directories, images, binary files, etc..
Download metadate 0.0.1 Be sure to rename it to “metadate”
Documentation is available here.
If you go snowshoeing, it might be a good idea to take a simple repair kit with you. We went cross country skiing to Fallen Leaf Lake today with my parents, who were on snowshoes. When we turned around to go back to the car we noticed one of the rivets was missing from my Dad’s snowshoe. My parents have had a few rivets pop out of their snowshoes in the past, so they were prepared when it happened again today:
Repair Kit
These made the repairs simple and fast.
Here’s something to do while you watch TV: build paper models. Called “card modeling” or “papercraft”, it’s inexpensive and doesn’t take up as much room as regular plastic models. There are hundreds of free designs on the internet, and hundreds (thousands?) more you can buy for a few dollars each.
All you really need is a design, a printer, some heavy paper (card stock works well, look in office supply stores), a sharp knife, and some white glue. The best resource site I have found is cardfaq.org. They give much more detailed information on how to build the models than I ever could, plus they have a huge list of links to free designs.
Just to give you an idea of what kind of models you can find, here are a few links:
I came across one of the first tests of my new URI format today. I wanted to post an update to the timezone plugin, but I wanted to keep the previous version around. Hmmm…multiple stories on the same topic? That sounds like a job for a category. Sadly, the obvious category for this (/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone) was already taken by my previous version, which was sitting on these URIs:
I’m not using the full date in my URI, so I only get to reuse a path once a year. Fortunately I got lucky because we just entered a new year. That means /2004/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone is available for me to use. Here are the new URIs I laid out:
So, I moved the old files to the new locations, added the new files, and updated my metadates so they were all correct. I then updated my .htaccess to add 301 redirects for the old URIs:
... Redirect permanent /2003/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone_about \ http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone/ RedirectMatch permanent /2003/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone_about\.(.*) \ http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone/index.$1 Redirect permanent /2003/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone \ http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone/timezone_0_0_2 Redirect permanent /2003/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone_pod.html \ http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/timezone/pod_0_0_2.html ...
Finally I posted the new version. Overall it was a fairly simple task. I got lucky with the new year, in the future I’ll have to be more careful when I post stories I know will turn into categories in the future.
Update: Found one more gotcha: my internal links are generated using the absolute plugin. When I move files, old references to them need to be updated in my blosxom stories, otherwise absolute can’t find the files and doesn’t generate the right links.
Update 2: It really makes more sense to set the directories up like this:
http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/fullcategory/v0_0_1/about.blosxom http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/fullcategory/v0_0_1/fullcategory http://zovirl.com/2004/software/blosxom/plugins/fullcategory/v0_0_2/ ...