We're now at the coding climax of this series, writing the code that will actually render the calendar you see on the right. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MORENext up in this series on writing the calendar of archived posts, is the PostsReader class. This class queries the database for the posts for a particular month or a particular day. It utilizes a couple of other helper classes that manage the caching of results, so we'll look at these first. […]
It's time to reveal all about that Archive Calendar I've been developing that now adorns my site. It's not quite done yet, but by the time I'll have it finished, this series of articles on how to write it will be too. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREA minor fix, this. The Archive Calendar on the right over there now has support for caching monthly and daily post collections so that the potentially expensive query plus retrieval from the database doesn't happen every time. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREOur local newspaper is the Gazette and we have it delivered every day. Neither of us like it particularly — we also get the New York Times, which is more reliable for news — but having the local news is essential for my wife's work. […]
READ MOREI have a whole set of posts on my static website that I'd like to transfer over to my Graffiti CMS site, leaving behind a redirect link. Since I was using CityDesk from Fog Creek to blog before, there's no migration tool available. Hey, no problem, I'm a developer at heart so it's just a simple case of opening up a a couple of databases, writing a conversion routine, and Bob's your uncle. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
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