Based on the number of people hitting the Plucker site with the
Python spider, I'm going to be adding a section of the site, only visable
and activated by these users, which is formatted specifically for the
Palm. Since the main page uses tables quite extensively, it doesn't look
optimal in Plucker. Easy to do, and will help me learn a bit more about
some of the back-ended technologies which I'm trying to teach myself to
drive this content.
Also, I'm going to be putting up two new things on the server to
handle both bug reports, and bug responses. RoundUp was going to be the
item of choice to handle the bug routing, and a forms-based interface will
be added to handle user-based bug entry. Easy to do. I've got all of the
requirements for a "Good Bug Report(tm)", but I'll pass it by you all in
any case.
I managed to lose about 8 hours of code that I had done on the
site to improve it when I was on a plane back to the east coast for my
girlfriend's birthday and back. I inadvertantly rsync'd the wrong
direction, and overwrote my newer code with the production code running on
the server. *sigh*, so I'll work on getting that back up again.
Lastly, I'm going to be putting up two new announcements on the
site. One of them is for Dirk's new enhancements to SR2, minor as they
are, but I think a full breakdown of "What's in the Windows version?"
including some of the 'gotchas' might be a good idea, since most of our
current downloaders seem to be Windows users.
The second thing is a call-for-samples blurb. Basically asking our
users to bestow upon us a good broad sampling of ebooks, websites, and
other things they've plucked, with the syntax they used, and optionally a
.pdb from the plucking for inclusion in the samples section.
I received an email today about some of the samples being
copyrighted, and I immediately took them down. We should be careful about
where some of this content comes from as we "move forward" (they were the
crime-based stories), but I think getting a nice broad range of samples,
sites, and syntax examples might help the users better familiarize
themselves with it.
That's all for now...
/d
