Breaking the Rules.
July 10, 2003, 11:07 amI'm breaking the rules. I'm going to apologize for the lack of updates. No one hates reading those “man, it's been so long since I updated” posts more than me, and here I am doing it.
I have a sizable file full of entries to publish, from my stay at the cabin. I'll get to them soon enough. But to sum up my cabin experience, I was productive and I had a good time. I re-read Show Crash for the third or fourth time. I think I've come back around to liking Beck's Sea Change.
I also added a ton of improvements to Enterport, including a bunch of new mask types for our ValidateInput() function, $_SESSION based caching for security/permission information, speed/efficiency improvements in many core pages, &c.. I have a long list of new things to add/improve.
I've added some new content to the site, namely <meta> tags and basic information on the index. These changes are attempts to raise my Google rank. I'd prefer so that if someone searches for "software developer" "Louisville, KY", they find my site. Right now, I'm on the second page, which doesn't suck, but isn't great.
I'm almost finished adding a Calendar view for my blog. JB added very nice month and week view functions to Enterport which uses an optional callback function. I wrote up a quick and dirty function to statically load an array of dates with blog entries and then check that against the current day in the function and viola! Now I just have to add a page that'll show entries by day (or perhaps change /core/news.php so that a day can be specified?).
I've also added useful search features, so that after you've selected a search result, a new menu provides anchors to next/previous search result and return to search results. It's pretty useful, especially since you can't yet navigate from one article to another chronologically.