Too much web…not enough sleep
I’ve been awake for nearly 23 hours now. I was tired when I got home from the party at Graham and Virginia’s tonight, but I really, really, really wanted to work on my site. So, that’s what I’ve been doing for the past two hours. The screen is blurry, and I can barely read the text I’m typing. Fortunately, I can pick out my typing errors just by knowing that I hit the wrong keys or hit them in the wrong order.
I did finish the manual cache refreshing, though. I also made the site more configurable. It’s a LOT easier to edit and add new RSS feeds or even remove ones I don’t want any more. There are only two spots where I have to enter any configuration. One file holds the feeds (name, url, etc) and another hold the logic on how to “process” them so that they can be displayed on the main page. The latter of those two files may be able to be summarized with a bit of logic into the first file. It’s just a field mapping, really. But each feed is different, so I had them separated out at first. I would write up a fix for that tonight, but my poor little brain has been stretched to its limits with an action-packed 10-hour work day and from being up since way too early. I’ll roll it live tomorrow when I can think again. That way, I don’t mess anything up on the live site.
Next on my list of things to do is write up some regex code that will pull source pages (like when you view the full article) and scan for comments. That way, I can display comments for the aggregate entries. It shouldn’t be too difficult, I wouldn’t think. Just have to build stable regex’s.
Then it’ll be on to the seamlessly-integrated Flickr gallery. That’s a whole other beast in itself. I’m pretty sure I will be making heavy use of phpFlickr for that, though. So, that should save quite a bit of hassle.
Now that I have my to-do list and keeping any of you interested up-to-date on the course of the ever-evolving site, I’m going to rest this poor brain of mine.
