Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:18:34 EST http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView 50 81 en-us James A. Robertson Copyright 2007 Cincom Systems, Inc. 2007-12-12T22:18:34-05:00 39.214103 -76.878807 New Blog Stuff http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=New_Blog_Stuff&entry=3374941569 Silt Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:46:09 EST

If you wander over to Michael's blog, you'll see a whole lot of automated posts that just popped up. That's because he's taken to posting stuff to Amazon's S3 bucket, and I built an interface between that and the server today. Amazon reports changes to his posting through a (non RSS, non Atom) XMl file; I have a process scanning that every so often, and when it sees new stuff, it pushes it onto his blog.

It's a neat idea, and it's something I think I'll look into myself.

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]]> 3374941569 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3374941569 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3374941569 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=New_Blog_Stuff&entry=3374941569 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=New_Blog_Stuff&entry=3374941569 Clarence 2007-12-12T21:19:39-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>If you did what Michael did be careful, it generated like 2 twitter pages full of twits all referencing his blog. I'm sure it will be 1 per day or so going forward but it was kind of annoying first time thru. The blog is a collection of png files, is this what was desired?</p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=New_Blog_Stuff&entry=3374941569 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=New_Blog_Stuff&entry=3374941569 James Robertson 2007-12-12T22:18:33-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Yeah, and there was a set of accidental dupe posts, as the first rev had bad links...</p> </div> Yes... http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3374941569 Category Search Fixed for IE http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Category_Search_Fixed_for_IE&entry=3355298184 Silt Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:16:24 EDT

Silly me thinking that Microsoft would have fixed their Javascript implementation for IE7. I have a test for the category menu that sends variant Javascript down depending on the browser, and it wasn't working for IE7. Now that I have stopped looking specifically for IE6, it works again. Sigh.

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I have the patches ready to roll in, but don't have time to do that right now. Later tonight though: every time I push a new post up, a Twitter update will roll. Anyone on the server with a Twitter account will be able to do the same thing, if they want to go to settings and add the Twitter account info.

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I added the static resources capability to the server quite awhile ago, when I migrated the Cincom Smalltalk site over to Silt. I hadn't really exposed that functionality beyond that one site though - and that changed today. If you look in the sidebar, you'll see a little "About Me" link - which I've linked to a small bio page. Any of the bloggers here can add that kind of "static" resource now, and edit it via the admin pages after logging in.

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]]> 3351755699 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3351755699 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3351755699 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Silt_Update&entry=3351755699 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Silt_Update&entry=3351755699 Steven Fenger 2007-03-19T11:34:29-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>In your bio, shouldn&#39;t you claim to be a &quot;thought-leader&quot; for something or other?<br /> </p></div> Bio http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3351755699 Some more cleanup http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Some_more_cleanup&entry=3351666465 Silt Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:27:45 EST

I just went through the static resources this server uses, and made sure that all of them are being served by Apache rather than the Smalltalk server. The Smalltalk server now handles only the dynamic loads; all the static resources (images, mostly) are handled by Apache. This falls under "best tool for the job", and is something I probably should have done a long time ago :)

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I've added some more caching to the Silt server, just in time for my ESUG talk on running a Smalltalk server. The new code is in the Public Store, Silt 2.62.

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There was a rather stupid bug in the generation of the per-category syndication feeds - the oldest ones were being fetched rather than the latest ones, based on a backwards boolean :) I've fixed that, and regenerated the files.

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With the addition of some internal blogs here at Cincom, there's been a real desire to make posting easier. So I've been delving into TinyMCE some more, and upgrading my usage of it. Here's a screen shot of the online posting form I use:

That's a shrunken picture, but you can see the HTML controls on the text area. The new addition is an image button, which goes along with the file upload servlet. This makes it possible for Silt bloggers to upload files without using a blog posting tool - something I know presents something of a barrier to entry.

Now, it happens to be the case that TinyMCE supports "paste from Word", preserving markup. I'll be looking at adding that too.

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