OLDaily Lite?
Jan 07, 2004
My apologies to everyone for yesterday's issue of 'OLDaily Lite' - all the fluff, none of the content. It was caused by a server hiccup that erased my links database (currently a 4 megabyte file containing some 5,000 records, give or take - you can grab it here if you're interested in my collected wisdom since August 12, 1999 (when I first started using this file format). Anyhow. It doesn't work any more. It's too large and my site gets too much traffic. Most of it is my Referrer System, which uses a similar data file. So anyhow, I'm working feverishly to redesign the referrers.cgi (current non-functioning code is here). I am also rewriting my newsletter generation system (current code is here). If you are curious to see how OLDaily is generated behind the scenes, you can try out my new system, since it's empty at the moment. Enter it here and feel free to play with it; it's very similar to what I currently use in look and feel, though I use a better style sheet (one that actually works in all browsers). While I'm linking to work in development, you might want to take a peek at the beautiful interface Raphael coded for Edu_RSS Topics - still very much in development, of course, but click here and select 'browse'. So. That's the state of the art in cubicle 2 at 55 Crowley Farm Road - it's like a construction zone in here, with a lot of stuff (including OLDaily) held together with binder twine and hope. But soon, I hope, I will have some nice applications to give away.
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