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Scott Cate's 404 manager for GraffitiCMS

File this under the, duh, why didn't I think of that category. Scott Cate has written a neat little widget/Chalk extension for Graffiti CMS that tracks 404s on your website. […]

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Chaining fun with window.onload

I set myself a task: write some raw JavaScript for a web page. By raw, I mean no jQuery, no Prototype, no MooTools, just me and the editor. […]

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Archive Calendar for GraffitiCMS released

Well that didn't take too long. Just enough time to open up an account at CodePlex, start a new project, point TortoiseSVN at it, and upload. The biggest time sink was actually the readme file and deciding on the license (I went for the MIT license). […]

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Making the Calendar into a Graffiti CMS Widget

Last time I kind of trailed off. The Archive Calendar was working fine as a Chalk extension and I had a business trip to make for a week and doing the work to change it into a widget wasn't at the top of my list. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 4b

Man, paging — the second bug I'd reported to myself in part 4 — was long-winded, mainly because I was trying to use the built-in paging system and spent far too much time tracing through Graffiti code in Reflector. In the end, I abandoned that line of attack, mainly because I think I'd been gaming GraffitiCMS by creating a "post" called archive, when it was really a list of posts, and the auto-generated default.aspx was all wrong for that purpose. Further investigation will wait for a rainy day. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 4a

OK the first bug I reported to myself in the previous post was trivial to fix. I changed the PostReader class to add a couple of new methods GetFilteredPostsForMonth(): […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 4

Not much more to discuss for phase 1 of the Archive Calendar since we've covered the code. This post is a kind of wrap up (although it does contain a couple of warnings at the end) and we'll talk about what you have to do in order for the calendar to actually work and display the archived posts. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 3

We're now at the coding climax of this series, writing the code that will actually render the calendar you see on the right. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 2

Next 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. […]

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Writing an Archive Calendar, part 1

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. […]

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