Re: [Slashcode-development] [Slashcode-general] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[shane <shane@lo...>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> I still think a great plugin/feature would be to allow approved  
> users to
> be able to submit files/pictures in replies to articles.

Would what they submitted be attached to the story, or their comment?

It would be trivial to show an image (that the user picked) with each  
user's comment. Just add an entry for them in the editUser template  
(a text input) and then alter the displayComment templates to include  
that user.myimagelink in the html.

Is this safe and adviseable? Lots of sites do this (ie UBB, etc) I  
wouldn't on any sites I run. But that's just me. I think it depends  
on the website, personally.

  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] [Slashcode-general] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[shane <shane@lo...>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:

> Alexandre Leroux wrote:
>> The first feature is adding GeoRSS tags to the RSS feed of the slash
>> site. You can learn more about on http://georss.org and
>> http://slashgeo.org/search.pl?query=georss. In short, RSS items are
>> geolocated, meaning they can be mapped or queried by the user.
>> Example:
>> show me RSS story items that are within 50 miles of my state. My goal
>> was simply to have an automated map my slash stories. It works :-) (I
>> can't show you a map of slashgeo.org's mapped georss feed since I
>> stopped geocoding stories until feature #2 below stops showing errors
>> for geolocated stories :-)
> [snip]
>> My slash site, slashgeo.org, will definitely use the plugin and
>> geolocate every story whenever appropriate. Ultimately, people  
>> will be
>> able to browse stories by location, say, stories that relates to the
>> UK.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Slash - Low-Priority Feature Requests, 699051, story regionalization
>
> I'd've been happy with a even a list of regions/countries to choose  
> from
> when submitting stories.  How hard is it to reliably map any given
> coordinate pair to a city/country/state/area?  I can certainly see the
> utility in finding local postings (i.e. "within 200 km of <coord>")  
> but
> more likely (for my needs) I'd want to focus on "Canada" or  
> "Manhattan"
> or "Middle East".  It certainly would be easier (for non-geography
> buffs) to submit something like this (i.e. picking from a list,  
> clicking
> a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs.

Where would one obtain such data?

>
> So this only applies to RSS, and you won't notice anything when  
> visiting
> the site otherwise?

No. If a story has geo-data associated with it, it'll show a map.  
Example:

http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/27/1337233

It will also add tags into the html such as

<meta name="geo.position" content="51.5;-0.1">

For more info on the tags: http://www.lottadot.com/projman.pl? 
op=viewissue&id=5

> If the story has location info, I'd want to see it
> in the story somewhere.

Where? And what? That's been the big question.

>
>> What's the overhead? Not much. You simply need to specify a location
>> (latitude / longitude coordinates) for your stories. Does it generate
>> added-value? Well, to my readers, yes, since we're geospatial
>> professionals. To your slashsite? You're the judge! :-)
>
> I think it would be a huge value-add, and very useful, especially were
> it given the ability to use "general" location as well as "specific"
> location.

In what way? To search the stories? To filter them on an index view  
(as you could filter by author, or by topic?)

  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] [Slashcode-general] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[Alexandre Leroux <alexandre.leroux@ec...>]

Hi,

 >more likely (for my needs) I'd want to focus on "Canada" or "Manhattan"
 >or "Middle East".  It certainly would be easier (for non-geography
 >buffs) to submit something like this (i.e. picking from a list, clickin=
g
 >a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs.

You'll be happy Tim, the GeoRSS standard (it's a Open Geospatial=20
Consortium standard, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/) allows not only=20
points, but lines and polygons. So this means, to take your example, you=20
can specify Canada or Middle-East with a polygon. This is -already- in=20
the plugin :-) One of the improvements will be to allow adding and=20
selecting regularly used 'locations' from a list, instead of having to=20
type the whole coordinates in the story edition page. This droplist=20
could be provided to users submitting stories.

I wasn't aware there was previous feature request of story=20
'regionalization'. If you ask me, GeoRSS is the way to go, since it is a=20
standard.


> So this only applies to RSS, and you won't notice anything when visitin=
g
> the site otherwise?  If the story has location info, I'd want to see it
> in the story somewhere.

That's where the Google Maps API part comes into play. (have you read=20
the comments in the IssueList link I provided? ;-) Idealy, you will be=20
able to map your GeoRSS directly on a map on your slash site. Right now,=20
it works when using other sites such as Mapufacture.com to automatically=20
map my slash stories, but having this maps directly on the slash site=20
would be nice. This is only the beginning (but since my own developer=20
skills aren't too high and there aren't that many people developing=20
slash, who knows at what pace this plugin will evolve...). As I wrote,=20
you can also add maps for individual stories whenever appropriate.


> I think it would be a huge value-add, and very useful, especially were

I'm happy to hear this :-)

Have a great weekend!

Alex
--=20
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre m=E9t=E9orologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la r=E9ponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
alexandre.leroux@...

Re: [Slashcode-development] [Slashcode-general] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[Eric Dannewitz <ericdano@ja...>]

I still think a great plugin/feature would be to allow approved users to 
be able to submit files/pictures in replies to articles.

Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> Alexandre Leroux wrote:
>   
>> The first feature is adding GeoRSS tags to the RSS feed of the slash
>> site. You can learn more about on http://georss.org and
>> http://slashgeo.org/search.pl?query=georss. In short, RSS items are
>> geolocated, meaning they can be mapped or queried by the user.
>> Example:    
>> show me RSS story items that are within 50 miles of my state. My goal
>> was simply to have an automated map my slash stories. It works :-) (I
>> can't show you a map of slashgeo.org's mapped georss feed since I
>> stopped geocoding stories until feature #2 below stops showing errors
>> for geolocated stories :-)    
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> My slash site, slashgeo.org, will definitely use the plugin and
>> geolocate every story whenever appropriate. Ultimately, people will be
>> able to browse stories by location, say, stories that relates to the
>> UK.   
>>     
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Slash - Low-Priority Feature Requests, 699051, story regionalization
>
> I'd've been happy with a even a list of regions/countries to choose from
> when submitting stories.  How hard is it to reliably map any given
> coordinate pair to a city/country/state/area?  I can certainly see the
> utility in finding local postings (i.e. "within 200 km of <coord>") but
> more likely (for my needs) I'd want to focus on "Canada" or "Manhattan"
> or "Middle East".  It certainly would be easier (for non-geography
> buffs) to submit something like this (i.e. picking from a list, clicking
> a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs.
>
> So this only applies to RSS, and you won't notice anything when visiting
> the site otherwise?  If the story has location info, I'd want to see it
> in the story somewhere.
>
>   
>> What's the overhead? Not much. You simply need to specify a location
>> (latitude / longitude coordinates) for your stories. Does it generate
>> added-value? Well, to my readers, yes, since we're geospatial
>> professionals. To your slashsite? You're the judge! :-)   
>>     
>
> I think it would be a huge value-add, and very useful, especially were
> it given the ability to use "general" location as well as "specific"
> location.  But like I alluded to, I don't know how difficult it would be
> to piggyback the general on top of the specific.
>
> Tim
>   

[Slashcode-development] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[Alexandre Leroux <alexandre.leroux@ec...>]

Hi list,

Just wanted to let you know about the great work Shane did in the=20
development of two new slash plugins. Well, it's one plugin, but two=20
distinct features. The first feature works flawlessly while the second=20
is in active development. It's still time to share your thoughts about=20
it :-)

The first feature is adding GeoRSS tags to the RSS feed of the slash=20
site. You can learn more about on http://georss.org and=20
http://slashgeo.org/search.pl?query=3Dgeorss. In short, RSS items are=20
geolocated, meaning they can be mapped or queried by the user. Example:=20
show me RSS story items that are within 50 miles of my state. My goal=20
was simply to have an automated map my slash stories. It works :-) (I=20
can't show you a map of slashgeo.org's mapped georss feed since I=20
stopped geocoding stories until feature #2 below stops showing errors=20
for geolocated stories :-)

The second feature provides a Google Map centered on a story when the=20
story is geolocated. This feature also works but not entirely yet: every=20
section requires a unique Google API Key, so we need to allow skins to=20
have their own gmap_key_id. Many uses/modifications are foreseen.

You can learn more and comment on the plugin on this page:
http://lottadot.com/projects/slashgeorss
read the 'IssuesList' to see where we're going with the Google Maps API=20
part.

My slash site, slashgeo.org, will definitely use the plugin and=20
geolocate every story whenever appropriate. Ultimately, people will be=20
able to browse stories by location, say, stories that relates to the UK.

What's the overhead? Not much. You simply need to specify a location=20
(latitude / longitude coordinates) for your stories. Does it generate=20
added-value? Well, to my readers, yes, since we're geospatial=20
professionals. To your slashsite? You're the judge! :-)

Cheers,

Alex
--=20
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre m=E9t=E9orologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la r=E9ponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
alexandre.leroux@...

Re: [Slashcode-development] WebGUI editor for stories (Slash::Admin)

[shane <shane@lo...>]

On Jul 22, 2006, at 12:52 PM, shane wrote:

>
> I wrote up a plugin that uses the FCKEditor. [...]

Bueller? Bueller?!? ;)

Beta's up if you're curious, grab via cvs:

http://lottadot.com/projects/slashfck

  Shane

[Slashcode-development] WebGUI editor for stories (Slash::Admin)

[shane <shane@lo...>]

I wrote up a plugin that uses the FCKEditor. It alters the two  
introtext and bodytext textarea fields when you are editting a story.  
It seems to work OK. (anyone who's running fairly recent slash that  
wants to beta test, drop me a line).

I do have one stumbling block, however.

How to include FCK w/ the Slash plugin.

FCK is LGPL, so I think I'm OK including the editor itself w/ the  
plugin.

However, exactly how?

I can untar it, remove samples, asp/vb/php/cf code and such, etc,  
that a Slash site would never need.

Then either tar it back up let people snag that tarball, or include  
everything it needs in the plugin's PLUGIN and MANIFEST file. Which,  
is a lot, and there are many, many files.

I looked at Slash::Searchtoo to see maybe there was some better way  
to include a whole ton of files w/a plugin but I didn't see any neat  
tricks there.

The alternative is, like I said, to make a tarball available that  
each particular slash-site owner would have to download, and untar in  
their /usr/local/slash/site/{sitename}htdocs.

Any opinions?

  Shane

[Slashcode-development] CVS Root changed

[shane <shane@lo...>]

For your anonymous checkouts, it seems there've been backend CVS  
changes within Sourceforge.

The following command, issued after you've cd'd into you src tree  
should help:

find ./ -name "Root" | xargs sed -i -e "s/@cvs.sourceforge.net/ 
@slashcode.cvs.sf.net/"

More info:

http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/


  Shane




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[Slashcode-development] dbs, getObjects and apache's a killer?

[shane <shane@lo...>]

Ok all you slashcode-devel guru's, I'm stuck, and looking for some  
advice.

I'm trying to write a plugin that will let a slash site reach a MS  
SQL2k server through DBI::Sybase.

*Note*: this is a plugin. It's not intended to let an entire slash  
site be back-ended by MS SQL2k!! Instead,  the thought behind this is  
the plugin's DB code could eventually use Slash's standard sqlSelect 
{...} to grab from the sql2k server.

in htdocs/test.pl I've got

my $osba_reader = getObject('Slash::OSBA', { db_type => 'mssql'});

it returns

$VAR1 = bless( {
                  '_dbh' => bless( {}, 'DBIx::Password' ),
                  'virtual_user' => 'sqlprod'
                }, 'Slash::OSBA' );

because I have an entry in the db's table for it:

mysql> select * from dbs;
+----+--------------+---------+-------+--------+---------------+
| id | virtual_user | isalive | type  | weight | weight_adjust |
+----+--------------+---------+-------+--------+---------------+
|  2 | sqlprod      | yes     | mssql |      1 |             1 |
+----+--------------+---------+-------+--------+---------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

In Slash::OSBA::DB::mssql::mssql.pm

I have a very simple function:

sub getFromTest {
     my ($self) = @_;
     return $self->sqlSelectAllHashrefArray("*", "test");
}


so when I run test.pl from the command line:

(this is basically the code it's running)
     my $osba_reader = getObject('Slash::OSBA', { db_type => 'mssql'});
     print Dumper($osba_reader);
     my $setthedb = $osba_reader->sqlDo("use testdatabase");
     my $data = $osba_reader->getFromTest();
     print Dumper($data);

here's the output (less the first Dumper)

$VAR1 = [
           {
             'value' => 'foo',
             'id' => 1
           },
           {
             'value' => 'two',
             'id' => 2
           },
           {
             'value' => 'three',
             'id' => 3
           }
         ];

which the data's correct. So I know the plugin can successfully read  
data from the table 'test' on the MS SQL2k server via it's database  
'testdatabase'.

However, when I hit that test.pl via a browser, weird things happen.  
It's as if the .pl mime type being sent from httpd is screwy, because  
the browser wants to download the src of the script.


The sourcecode to the perl script I'm hitting with the browser is here:

http://lottadot.com/files/test.txt

If I telnet to the machine's port and try a GET by hand I do not get  
anything returned other then

"Connection closed by foreign host."

Any thoughts on this? I'm confused why it works fine via the CLI but  
via Apache it dies. Am I misusing what getObject was intended for?  
I'm stumped.

Thanks,
  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] the tags interface

[shane <shane@lo...>]

Ah, so that's how you setup the tags for a story, before the story  
goes live.

heh, I filed that as bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1448147&group_id=4421&atid=104421


On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Clifton Wood wrote:

> Right now, tags in the story editor doesn't work. You need to go to  
> article.pl and edit it there. But when the bugs are fixed, you  
> should be able to edit tags when you preview the story (it's in the  
> same place in both article.pl and admin.pl)
>
> This is at least what they tell me.
>
> - Cliff
>
> On 3/12/06, shane <shane@... > wrote:
> I just upgraded one of our servers from _93 to latest cvs-head, so
> I'm playing with some of the new plugins, particularly the tags  
> plugin.
>
> I don't see where you can edit a story's tags from w/in the story
> editor interface.
>
> Am I missing something or does this not exist... if it doesn't exist
> is it planned?
>
>   Shane
>
> PS - cool stuff this tags and ajax. I'm looking forward to tapping
> into it all w/ my own code. Thanks guys.
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[shane <shane@lo...>]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Clifton Wood wrote:

> Regarding the theme name, it's probably best to drop  
> "wordpressclone" and create your own shorter version. At the risk  
> of being derivative:
>
> "slashpress_theme"

mmm, good point. <sigh>, where were you when I was doing that cvs  
import last nite ;)

> As far as naming conventions go, I don't think there is an official  
> one. We can adopt an "unofficial" one, if we are going to be  
> consistent. I'd think 12-24 chars as a "name" with an added  
> "_theme" should work well enough.
>
> Thoughts?

sounds good to me!

  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[Clifton Wood <clifton.wood@gm...>]

Regarding the theme name, it's probably best to drop "wordpressclone" and
create your own shorter version. At the risk of being derivative:

"slashpress_theme"

As far as naming conventions go, I don't think there is an official one. We
can adopt an "unofficial" one, if we are going to be consistent. I'd think
12-24 chars as a "name" with an added "_theme" should work well enough.

Thoughts?

- Cliff

On 3/13/06, shane <shane@...> wrote:
>
>
> I was messing around w/ the stock slashcode theme's css tonite and I
> ended up getting a little more creative then I intended. I created a
> clone of the stock Wordpress look n feel for slashcode.
>
> Screenshot:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/SlashWordpressScreenshot.png
>
> The code's in CVS, so either peruse via http://cvsweb.lottadot.com/
> cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wordpress/
>
> or just grab it:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot login
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot checkout wordpress
>
> It's not 100% complete, in that I didn't mess with trying to make
> content from article.pl fit into the wordpress "box". But the
> frontpage looks halfway decent. I honestly do not intend to work on
> this much further. So if this is at all any interest to anyone,
> please speak up and let me know.
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>   Shane
>
> PS - what's the 'standard' for naming conventions for themes? part of
> me thought this should be called 'wordpressclonetheme' and another
> thought 'slashwordpressclonetheme' but that's kinda long. When I've
> created themes in the past, they were always for a specific website.
> So this is different from that. Note that the stock slashcode theme
> is just called 'slashcode' not 'slashcodetheme'. So I'm wondering if
> there's a naming convention to go by, and if there isn't, with the
> advent of the css conversion of slashcode odds are more themes will
> follow, so maybe there should be?
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] the tags interface

[Clifton Wood <clifton.wood@gm...>]

Right now, tags in the story editor doesn't work. You need to go to
article.pl and edit it there. But when the bugs are fixed, you should be
able to edit tags when you preview the story (it's in the same place in bot=
h
article.pl and admin.pl)

This is at least what they tell me.

- Cliff

On 3/12/06, shane <shane@...> wrote:
>
> I just upgraded one of our servers from _93 to latest cvs-head, so
> I'm playing with some of the new plugins, particularly the tags plugin.
>
> I don't see where you can edit a story's tags from w/in the story
> editor interface.
>
> Am I missing something or does this not exist... if it doesn't exist
> is it planned?
>
>   Shane
>
> PS - cool stuff this tags and ajax. I'm looking forward to tapping
> into it all w/ my own code. Thanks guys.
>
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[shane <shane@lo...>]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Jim Frey wrote:

> Shane was helping me on Sunday fixing where I messed up trying to  
> install Slash. I was emailing him from morning well into the night.  
> How he found the time to do this too is beyond me.
>
> Where should I go to start to understand how to change the themes?  
> -- Keep in mind I have no clue what I'm doing with slash... yet...
>
> - Jim

There's an article on lottadot about changing themes. Hit http:// 
slash.lottadot.com/ . Happy reading :)

If you're still lost after you read the article about themes, then  
send a msg to the list.

The wordpress theme wasn't all that much work (not that it's  
finished, either). If I'd have ever touched Wordpress before it'd  
probably have taken half the time it did. The good thing is that I'd  
already done a lot of the work looking at Slash's css layout months ago:

http://slash.lottadot.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/09/017212

  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[Jim Frey <head_dunce@ya...>]

Shane was helping me on Sunday fixing where I messed up trying to install Slash. I was emailing him from morning well into the night. How he found the time to do this too is beyond me.
 
 Where should I go to start to understand how to change the themes? -- Keep in mind I have no clue what I'm doing with slash... yet...
 
 - Jim

Eric Dannewitz <ericdano@...> wrote: You do great work Shane. Too bad the main slashdot team doesn't post 
about new features, or just basically post.......

shane wrote:
>
> I was messing around w/ the stock slashcode theme's css tonite and I 
> ended up getting a little more creative then I intended. I created a 
> clone of the stock Wordpress look n feel for slashcode.
>
> Screenshot:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/SlashWordpressScreenshot.png
>
> The code's in CVS, so either peruse via 
> http://cvsweb.lottadot.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wordpress/
>
> or just grab it:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot login
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot checkout wordpress
>
> It's not 100% complete, in that I didn't mess with trying to make 
> content from article.pl fit into the wordpress "box". But the 
> frontpage looks halfway decent. I honestly do not intend to work on 
> this much further. So if this is at all any interest to anyone, please 
> speak up and let me know.
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>  Shane
>
> PS - what's the 'standard' for naming conventions for themes? part of 
> me thought this should be called 'wordpressclonetheme' and another 
> thought 'slashwordpressclonetheme' but that's kinda long. When I've 
> created themes in the past, they were always for a specific website. 
> So this is different from that. Note that the stock slashcode theme is 
> just called 'slashcode' not 'slashcodetheme'. So I'm wondering if 
> there's a naming convention to go by, and if there isn't, with the 
> advent of the css conversion of slashcode odds are more themes will 
> follow, so maybe there should be?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[Eric Dannewitz <ericdano@ja...>]

You do great work Shane. Too bad the main slashdot team doesn't post 
about new features, or just basically post.......

shane wrote:
>
> I was messing around w/ the stock slashcode theme's css tonite and I 
> ended up getting a little more creative then I intended. I created a 
> clone of the stock Wordpress look n feel for slashcode.
>
> Screenshot:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/SlashWordpressScreenshot.png
>
> The code's in CVS, so either peruse via 
> http://cvsweb.lottadot.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wordpress/
>
> or just grab it:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot login
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot checkout wordpress
>
> It's not 100% complete, in that I didn't mess with trying to make 
> content from article.pl fit into the wordpress "box". But the 
> frontpage looks halfway decent. I honestly do not intend to work on 
> this much further. So if this is at all any interest to anyone, please 
> speak up and let me know.
>
> Patches appreciated.
>
>  Shane
>
> PS - what's the 'standard' for naming conventions for themes? part of 
> me thought this should be called 'wordpressclonetheme' and another 
> thought 'slashwordpressclonetheme' but that's kinda long. When I've 
> created themes in the past, they were always for a specific website. 
> So this is different from that. Note that the stock slashcode theme is 
> just called 'slashcode' not 'slashcodetheme'. So I'm wondering if 
> there's a naming convention to go by, and if there isn't, with the 
> advent of the css conversion of slashcode odds are more themes will 
> follow, so maybe there should be?
>
>
>
>
>
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[Slashcode-development] Wordpress theme

[shane <shane@lo...>]

I was messing around w/ the stock slashcode theme's css tonite and I  
ended up getting a little more creative then I intended. I created a  
clone of the stock Wordpress look n feel for slashcode.

Screenshot:

http://images.lottadot.com/SlashWordpressScreenshot.png

The code's in CVS, so either peruse via http://cvsweb.lottadot.com/ 
cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wordpress/

or just grab it:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot checkout wordpress

It's not 100% complete, in that I didn't mess with trying to make  
content from article.pl fit into the wordpress "box". But the  
frontpage looks halfway decent. I honestly do not intend to work on  
this much further. So if this is at all any interest to anyone,  
please speak up and let me know.

Patches appreciated.

  Shane

PS - what's the 'standard' for naming conventions for themes? part of  
me thought this should be called 'wordpressclonetheme' and another  
thought 'slashwordpressclonetheme' but that's kinda long. When I've  
created themes in the past, they were always for a specific website.  
So this is different from that. Note that the stock slashcode theme  
is just called 'slashcode' not 'slashcodetheme'. So I'm wondering if  
there's a naming convention to go by, and if there isn't, with the  
advent of the css conversion of slashcode odds are more themes will  
follow, so maybe there should be?

[Slashcode-development] the tags interface

[shane <shane@lo...>]

I just upgraded one of our servers from _93 to latest cvs-head, so  
I'm playing with some of the new plugins, particularly the tags plugin.

I don't see where you can edit a story's tags from w/in the story  
editor interface.

Am I missing something or does this not exist... if it doesn't exist  
is it planned?

  Shane

PS - cool stuff this tags and ajax. I'm looking forward to tapping  
into it all w/ my own code. Thanks guys.

Re: [Slashcode-development] story revisioning plugin

[Eric Dannewitz <ericdano@ja...>]

Wow, that is great. Glad to see someone actually developing stuff for 
Slash......

shane wrote:
>
> For anyone that's running cvs-head, I've got a new plugin that does 
> story revisioning. The idea behind the plugin is to enable your 
> authors to use the story editor for more collaboration. You can now 
> easily see what other authors (who, what, when) was changed in each story.
>
> Grab it here:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@... 
> <mailto:anonymous@...>:/cvsroot co Storyhistory
>
> you'll need to apply the admin.patches.txt patch (it's recursive to 
> the root of your src code checkout) which adds the interface to 
> Slash::Admin.
>
> screenshots:
>
> new slashbox on the story-editor interface:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_storyedit.png
>
> viewing a revision:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_viewaversion.png
>
> comparing two revisions:
>
> http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_comparison.png
>
>
> This is *beta* if that. I just wrote this thing last nite/this 
> morning. So YMMV don't run it on a production system, eat fruits and 
> veggies and if this borks anything on your end don't come cryin to me 
> etc etc blah blah.
>
> Any bugs reports/suggestions/comments appreciated. Please email them 
> directly to me, thanks.
>
>  Shane
>
>
>
> --
>
> My slashcode stuff: http://slash.lottadot.com/ 
>
> Slashcode faq: http://slash.lottadot.com/slash-faq
>
>
>
>

[Slashcode-development] story revisioning plugin

[shane <shane@lo...>]

For anyone that's running cvs-head, I've got a new plugin that does  
story revisioning. The idea behind the plugin is to enable your  
authors to use the story editor for more collaboration. You can now  
easily see what other authors (who, what, when) was changed in each  
story.

Grab it here:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...:/cvsroot co Storyhistory

you'll need to apply the admin.patches.txt patch (it's recursive to  
the root of your src code checkout) which adds the interface to  
Slash::Admin.

screenshots:

new slashbox on the story-editor interface:

http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_storyedit.png

viewing a revision:

http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_viewaversion.png

comparing two revisions:

http://images.lottadot.com/mirror/storyhistory_comparison.png


This is *beta* if that. I just wrote this thing last nite/this  
morning. So YMMV don't run it on a production system, eat fruits and  
veggies and if this borks anything on your end don't come cryin to me  
etc etc blah blah.

Any bugs reports/suggestions/comments appreciated. Please email them  
directly to me, thanks.

  Shane



--
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Slashcode faq: http://slash.lottadot.com/slash-faq

Re: [Slashcode-development] older_stories_max?

[Clifton Wood <clifton.wood@gm...>]

An old performance tunable, most likely.

- Cliff

On 2/15/06, shane <shane@...> wrote:
>
> From the upgrades file:
>
> # Leaving this set to 0 will allow the current behavior of showing
> whatever leftover stories are left from the select for the main column of
> the index
> # Changing this value to something positive will limit the number showing
> up in the Older Stories Slashbox
> ALTER TABLE skins ADD COLUMN older_stories_max MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED DEFAULT
> '0' NOT NULL;
>
> I'm curious as to why this was needed?
>
>  Shane
>
>

[Slashcode-development] lastest admin story editor probs

[shane <shane@lo...>]

i installed a fresh install of latest src w/ default site, then  
installed plugins: ajax, daypass, remarks, scheduleshifts, tags,  
unsubscribe and validator, restarted httpd. tried to edit a story,  
and the preview/update buttons don't work. i was using safari. so i  
tried firefox 1.5.0, same thing.

am I crazy or are others seeing this?

yes, this is on a dev box - my laptop. i wanted to see how some of  
the newer plugins were going.

thanks,
  Shane

[Slashcode-development] older_stories_max?

[shane <shane@lo...>]

 From the upgrades file:

# Leaving this set to 0 will allow the current behavior of showing  
whatever leftover stories are left from the select for the main  
column of the index
# Changing this value to something positive will limit the number  
showing up in the Older Stories Slashbox
ALTER TABLE skins ADD COLUMN older_stories_max MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED  
DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

I'm curious as to why this was needed?

  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] members-only

[Tim Vroom <tvroom@va...>]

Hi Shane,

We actually recently added code to handle requiring an acl for a skin.  
If require_acl is marked in the skins table the user will be redirected 
to the homepage unless they have the necessary ACL.  I suppose you could 
add some additional code there to make sure any required ACL's are 
enforced for a .shtml too regardless of what hostname they're coming from.

--Tim


shane wrote:

> I've got someone who has a slash-based site, and parts of it need to  
> be locked down to paying members only.
>
> Years ago there was someone on IRC that I'd helped accomplish this  
> (if you're around, please contact me). But since the code's been  
> changing quite a bit since then (section-topics, etc) I'm looking at  
> starting from scratch.
>
> When I was running this through my head I thought I'd create a  
> skins.acl, then add code to the apache handler that checks if the  
> skinds.{user.currentskid}.acl exists, check for the user having that  
> acl etc etc.
>
> What's interesting is deciding whether to try and block out .shtm's  
> through the apache handler or stop writing them when an article's  
> primary skid has an acl associated with it.
>
> Take  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/14/0429228 and  
> view it in the games section http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl? 
> sid=06/02/14/0429228
>
> I was suprised at the redirect/url-rewrite to the article's primaryskid.
>
> Now as an AnonCoward: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/ 
> 06/02/14/0429228.shtml
>
> and
>
> http://games.slashdot.org/linux/06/02/14/0429228.shtml
>
> I was surprised at that as well. It seems to have kept the  proper 
> .css file inclusions even though the subdomain in the tld  changed. 
> Which is great with regard to cosmetics and each individual  story. 
> It's bad if you want a story to be subscriber only/member only  for 
> the life of the story.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Anyone else interested in this?
>
>  Shane
>
>
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[Slashcode-development] members-only

[shane <shane@lo...>]

I've got someone who has a slash-based site, and parts of it need to  
be locked down to paying members only.

Years ago there was someone on IRC that I'd helped accomplish this  
(if you're around, please contact me). But since the code's been  
changing quite a bit since then (section-topics, etc) I'm looking at  
starting from scratch.

When I was running this through my head I thought I'd create a  
skins.acl, then add code to the apache handler that checks if the  
skinds.{user.currentskid}.acl exists, check for the user having that  
acl etc etc.

What's interesting is deciding whether to try and block out .shtm's  
through the apache handler or stop writing them when an article's  
primary skid has an acl associated with it.

Take  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/14/0429228 and  
view it in the games section http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl? 
sid=06/02/14/0429228

I was suprised at the redirect/url-rewrite to the article's primaryskid.

Now as an AnonCoward: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/ 
06/02/14/0429228.shtml

and

http://games.slashdot.org/linux/06/02/14/0429228.shtml

I was surprised at that as well. It seems to have kept the  
proper .css file inclusions even though the subdomain in the tld  
changed. Which is great with regard to cosmetics and each individual  
story. It's bad if you want a story to be subscriber only/member only  
for the life of the story.

Any thoughts?

Anyone else interested in this?

  Shane