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The Upgrade and the Damage Done

Posted by garym on February 25, 2007 - 10:20pm

For better or worse, the damage is done now: the Peninsular is upgraded to the very latest Drupal 4.7 and you have probably already noticed how so very little the site has changed considering I laboured a nearly solid 12-hour day to get it just this far :)

But it has changed. Honest it has.

Whether those changes help you publish your journals or jump the shark and make this thing impossible to use remains to be seen, but already you'll find some nice changes such as getting all that editorial options form junk out of the way when you post your stories. It's still there, folded into the bottom of the story editor (and that may cause some older browsers to complain) but when nearly nobody but me ever fiddles with any of that stuff, it just doesn't make sense to make everyone wade through it for every little post.

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Bring a little SBP to your own website

Posted by garym on May 26, 2004 - 5:36pm

Ever wonder about that little orange XML link in the sidebar? It's called Syndicate because that's what it does, it syndicates the South Bruce Peninsular into a small file giving you the headlines and teasers for the stories currently on our front page.

Some people like to call this RSS for Really Simple Syndication, and others like to call it Web news that comes to you ...

And now, thanks to the kind people at Maricopa, if you have a website of your own, you can use our feed to liven up your site and put a little bit of the SBP into your pages to show your web visitors the latest happenings in and around the gateway to the Bruce. All you need to do is adjust the settings at the Build a Feed You Can Cut 'n Paste page, and then click the button to generate the bit of Javascript code you need to paste into your webpage.
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Some SBP Updates

Posted by garym on March 3, 2004 - 9:56pm

Another day, another batch of updates to the software behind the SBP, and these are hopefully the last round of major changes for a while -- today's update brings us up to the cutting edge of Drupal 4.4.0 release candidate one ... which in English means we've stopped adding new and dangerous things and we're reasonably sure what we have is going to work.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the end of those annoying max_user_connections errors --- those are caused by our squeezing 3 big sites and 7 busy blogs into just one low-budget account on a machine we share with 200 other customers ... someday, when we're rich and famous, we'll rent our very own machine and really load it up, but for now, sadly, just say "Hiya Max, long time no see" ... and reload your webpage (ditto for the chatbox).

And that chatbox, that's just one of a host of amusements I'll be rolling out over the coming year with this new software.

And remember, SBP is our story, you and me, I lend my time to tinker it together and a bit of website to hold it, you lend your time to make it worth the visit, make it something we can tell our friends and family "You want to know where I live? Just go to sbp.teledyn.com"

A few other things I'd like to try with you ...

  • Our own tourism handbook, written by you and me, edited by anyone who's a member of the SBP, a place where we can do what we do over and over again every year, tell the tourists the very best places that they just gotta see, and what to know when they get there.

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