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SubText
If you have the eye of a good copy editor, you might have noticed some volatility in the ole Tag Cloud on the right. I made some changes at the request of people on the SubText developers list and reworked some stuff—most of which is completely invisible. The biggest visible change is that I decided that assuming an even dispersion around the mean might work in natural statistics, blog post tags tend to be more of a declining curve however.
What that means is that most algorithms for displaying tag clouds use a formula that allocates about half their categories...
I just completed some SubText hacking and the results should be visible now. In addition to upgrading to version 1.9.5 (which should officially release here shortly), I implemented a new feature: Tag Clouds. I'd had enough of my feature envy from all the cool kids who had them, so I went and rolled my own. If you're at my actual site (as opposed to a feed reader), the Tag Cloud is off on the right.
This was a non-trivial feature to add. In an email conversation on the SubText developers' list a couple months ago, Phil Haack (semi-benevolent project dictator) indicated...
Okay, things seem to have settled down with the blog app. I love when that happens. It should stay stable until I decide to hack around with it again. One of the more interesting changes I made is that I'm now using Bloglines' public API to display my blogroll. This means that the blogs listed on the right, there, are the same as the ones I monitor on a regular basis. When I add a feed, it'll show up (and conversely when I remove one...) In other news, two of my customizations to the SubText engine have been approved for the...
The folks who visit the actual blog (as opposed to using an RSS feed) have probably noticed that I re-skinned the site. Now that I'm more comfortable with SubText's skin structure, I figured this would be the next step. Personally, I think that it looks tons better now, but you can let me know in the comments if I'm just being delusional. I still need to tackle that calandar, though.
I can't take much credit for it if you like it. I'm perfectly aware of my (lack of) design sense. I can generally do okay evaluating existing designs, but I suck...
In my response to Jeff Atwood, I mentioned the Technorati widget control that he is now using in lieu of Trackbacks. The Technorati widget is fairly simple to implement, but you have to be able to feed it the permalink for your post for it to be able to work. Since I already had a go at creating custom controls for use in SubText, I decided that now was a good time to see if I couldn't come up with a way to create one that has access to blog entry attributes like the permalink. For your edification, here's what...
Okay, I've had SubText up and running for a week and some now, so naturally it is time to tinker. In poking around, I'm not as happy with SubText's integration model as I was with DasBlog's. DasBlog exposed a number of "macros" that you could use to insert certain internal values into your own stuff. I kind of liked their model because once you registered your own code, you could reference your macros from DasBlog stuff as well (bear in mind that I didn't actually implement DasBlog, so my impression could be off).
That said, as long as you don't need to...
Well, I still haven't chosen what blog software I want to use in a new home. So many to chose from and none are a perfect fit. The comments left by Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, and Dave Burke were good ones and point out the connectedness of the blogosphere (is that word accepted enough to forgo the quotes now?)
Since I gave DasBlog such short shrift in my original post, I spent some quality time with it. DasBlog has some really strong points in its favor. For one, it has a very active developer community, though that isn't as apparent as it...
It's always the little things that chafe, you know? I mean, for the most part I'm happy with Windows Live Spaces, but there are little things that bug me from time to time so I find myself getting antsy. On the plus side, I like the modules and the freedom to place them where I want them. I like the book list (but I'd like it better if I could a) put it in the order I want and b) could rate the books listed there). I like my links. But I find that I keep wanting things I get...