After some investigation, it seems likely that it's our logging settings that are bumping up the size. The sessions and hitlog tables have tens of thousands of entries. I've reduced the logging days from 15 to seven, and instructed to db to prune the older entries. We'll wait and see how much effect that has.
March 7, 2007
March 6, 2007
Created a custom RSS URL using the HCMC Stats function, drawing only from posts which have the Announcements category checked, then Stew plugged it into MagpieRSS; the main HCMC site feed now shows only announcements.
February 26, 2007
With Martin and Greg, worked out a convention for handling links on the HCMC site so that they appear properly in the print output. The difficult case was links with the URL as the link text as well as the href attribute - we wanted only one of those two instances of the text to appear. The internal nav links are all contained in internalNav divs, so we can handle them
February 21, 2007
A list of the three most useful bookmarklets would be handy in the sidebar (perhaps below the "Actions" section. The links would provide direct access to each of the handy-dandy reports:
What have I done today
List my outstanding tasks
List my overdue tasks
Added the squared plus and squared minus characters (u229E and u229F) for the expando buttons that show and hide posts in reports, in place of the regular plus and minus.
Greg's new CSS has some nice alternating background shading for table rows, but it requires a class of "odd" to be set on every alternate <tr> tag. Edited report.php to add this.
February 19, 2007
As of now, the CSS updates to the front- and back- ends are pretty much finished. The few things that I wanted to adjust are too painful to deal with (they'd need PHP hacked to accommodate minuscule aesthetic goals) so I'll leave them to the following task.
The Task:
Respond to CSS bug reports for the two parts of the blog (front end and back end).
February 16, 2007
I found a post which had no title when working on my rss display on the hcmc site. http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/index.php?blog=28&p=901&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
It looks odd in that context, and I'm sure similar title-less posts will look odd in other contexts within the blog, so should trap for an empty or nothing-but-whitespace value in the title field when the user tried to submit a post.
I've been working on the CSS for the admin backend for this blog engine in order to incorporate it into the main HCMC site (at least to a certain extent). I assumed it would be fairly straightforward, but it's become clear that there is a lot going on back here.
I'll be posting a task for myself to continue this over the next few weeks. Please comment on the task to offer critiques and suggestions/oversights etc. I've done this work using only Firefox on Linux, so there will certainly be rendering differences, specifically in regard to fonts and border sizes.
February 12, 2007
Did some further research into the request to limit comments to logged-in users. It turns out that you can tune the anti-spam plugin to automatically delete comments below a certain spam threshold, and automatically publish those above another threshold. If this works, it will remove the need for any serious hacking to limit comments to logged-in users; the only real reason for this was to avoid spam. Set the values to -50 and +50 respectively; we'll see what results from this. If spam is still occasionally showing up, we can tweak again.