Aquarionics

Stuff I’d like to do to Epistula:

The New Commenting System

Semi-done now, New structure and migratory scripts in place, I just have to rewrite addcomments.php and fetch_comments() to do it right before I make it live, this will include some kind of monitoring system to stop be being comment spammed, probably by watching IPs.

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

2Kewl

The link management part of Epistula, Or rather it’s sequel.

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

The new Entry structure

Modified structure to use epoch instead of timestamp. (Gives me more freedom of date-selectors)

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

The new reviews system

Split it out from articles completely and make it fit with everything else.

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

The category system

Currently, I have four different category systems (Links, Articles, Entries), these will get folded in to one.

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

Vignette-style content generation

Vignette works by only generating pages when people ask for them. Basically, Epistula will generate caches of pages. When the cache is invalid (by someone adding a comment to it, for example), it’s deleted and the next time the page is loaded, a new cache is generated.
The general point is that instead of generating a full page every time (It now takes the server half a second to generate the front page of Aquarionics. Not bad, but if I get slashdotted I’m in serious trouble within seconds, So Epistula will be rebuilt so that doesn’t happen, first in PHP and later in C and Perl (Perl doing front-end generation, C accessing databases and managing caches).
Probably.

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

Rewrite of the Gallery System

To give me sub galleries, categories (see above), and automatically generated thumbnails

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

The great rewrite

Scrap everything, rewrite using mod_rewrite so I can give everything a look & feel without having to panic about include paths and other such nonsense, but do it in a way that makes every existing URL remain valid. Nobody said I took the easy route out of anything :-)

(Added 2002-10-30, Updated 2002-10-30)

London’s Police force release a new poster

Are you afraid of the cameras?

Coolness, Blogdex 2.0 has gone live

Via Mark

Normally, Epistula shows the latest 5 entries. This is no longer true. Instead, if there are more than 5 entries in the last day (Like today) it will show all that day’s entries, OR the last five, if were less than five.
Neat :-)

I Used To Believe (via The Antigeek) is a website dedicated to things children used to believe, but know better now. It’s interesting to know that some of the odd things I believed when I was five are the same as other people did…

I used to believe that the world would end in 1970. I just couldn’t imagine the year being anything other than 1960-something (the something corresponding to my age…). Even when I warmed up to the possibility that we might survive the decade (which I allowed only after someone convinced me that I really had been born in 1959 instead of 1960), 2000 gave me the creeps; but I figured by then I’d be an old, old, guy approaching 40, doing nothing with my time except lying about on the sofa like my granddad always did maybe watching TV because that’s all old guys did, and it wouldn’t matter anymore…

Oh, and anyone who hasn’t experienced Acts of Gord should do so. Now