A rundown on some of the updates with SSR's blog software.
1. For those that comment with an account, you can now edit your own comments. Mainly for when a typo escapes you.
Originally I designed it so that a user would only need to log in when they write an article. Everything else can be done anonymously; but I break that design parameter, adam does; and I am betting others do too.
So ... bad design decision.
The issue there is that the session only lasts as long as the browser. On my laptop a logged in session will remain up to 60 hours if I leave the browser open and put the laptop to sleep. On the PC which goes up and down like a toilet seat the session doesn't persist between browser sessions.
It must be some obscure configuration setting that I am missing. I will continue to hunt for it. I increased the hours the session will remain open in the cfg file but it still appears to be limited by the browser not being closed.
2. You can now preview your comment before publishing it. You might need to shift-reload the page to update the javascript file.
This is a round trip so you may have to be patient at times but it should mirror what will display very closely as it uses the same algorithm that converts text into html.
The only difference is that javascript strips EOLs in urls, so a regexp puts in P tags before sending it up.
Have to comment on JSON here - massive improvement over XML in parsing out the return values. XML always ran the risk of null blowups and required all manner of defensive programming. JSON is much more resilient in that respect.
3. None's should no longer appear in RSS feeds if there is no body in a story (oops).
4. There is a now a recently popular articles which is the articles that have the most views over the last 60 days.
5. There is an article reply bar at the bottom of the page (if there are comments) under the comments section to stop confusion between replying to a comment and replying to an article.
6. URLs with article/id now redirect to the article without the RESTful read descriptor.
7. Rating a comment that has not yet been rated will now show the rating/rated ratio immediately after (oops).
8. There are some other under the hood updates, but nothing that affects the end user.
9. Still no cure for cancer.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
