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Take 2? - 16/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]

Take 2?

Hey, this might work. I'm going to use an index file with a list of all the entries. It should make it much easier to manipulate and sort them...

<gloat> It works! It's tiny and stupidly (nay, neautifully) simple. There's no faffing about with databases or worrying about what happens if you roll back over a month or if there are gaps of days/weeks between entries or anything like that. Every entry has its own file corresponding to its date e.g. this is in /diary/2002-04-16, and there is a constantly updated index of files in the same folder. I'm sitting at my matrix shell prompt and I type "d", which concatenates the current date (`date -I`) to the end of the index, touches and chmods a file of that name and then opens up my fuzzy cuddly text-editor of choice (pico) with same filename. I save and exit. Displaying the latest three entries is a piece of piss after that; I'll leave you work out how many lines it took. Faster than Blogger, that's for sure. Archives coming soon, but they should be a piece of piss too.
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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!

I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.

"The Monkey"? Eh?

My nom de guerre comes from an old Eddie Izzard comedy sketch.

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