Blog housekeeping note

You may, or may not, have noticed some changes around here.

That's Tori, my new Blog Assistant. She's helping me clean up a few things.

At least I think she's helping.

For instance, Tori has a way with JavaScript that really gets the most out of my plugins. See that scrolling headline ticker at the top for my other blog? That's her work.

You are reading my Posterous Blog, aren't you? Well, why the hell not! It's chock-full of good stuff. The cool thing about Posterous is I can post via email. Have BlackBerry, will blog!

Most of the cleanup is occuring on the sidebar, where a lot of dead wood needed a good scrubbing.

Once that's out of the way Tori will be working on converting the mostly static but occasionally changeable stuff like the blogroll into dynamically updating iframes. Don't panic if you don't know what that means, because the important thing is that Tori does know. It said so right on her resume which I assure you I vetted very thoroughly...

The heart of WyBlog is Blosxom, a Perl script that has a ton of flexibility and is really easy to use. Unfortunately it's not exactly a speed demon. I overcame the speed problem by implementing a static cache. But then of course every time I need to add somebody to the blogroll I have to regenerate all the cached entries.

The cache update batch job now takes a little over 17 hours to complete. Feh.

Tori suggested I trade Perl on the back-end for JavaScript in your browser. It can pull RSS feeds, fetch widgets, and turn XML content into properly formatted HTML in the blink of an eye.

Her revised "Recent Posts" section is already operational. Since it was her first WyProject Tori accepted a little help from her friends at RSS-to-JavaScript.com. They trained her well and now she's a real acrobat between the cascading style sheets.

Once the blogroll is done Tori will turn her attention to cleaning out the archives. I've been at this blog thing for almost 4 years now and I'm sure there's a whole lotta dust and stuff buried in there.

Tori's a tough gal though. She'll find a way to keep this old boy's musings properly indexed and readily accessible.

Here she is, hard at work on her computer.

I think I'll go lend her a hand.

UPDATE 13 Mar 2011 12:36:
Linked by Pirate's Cove.

Thanks!

UPDATE 14 Mar 2011 09:16:
Also linked at The Classic Liberal's Rule 5 Sunday Roundup.

Rule5Wombat, where are you....?

UPDATE 15 Mar 2011 09:14:
All is well, Rule 5 Sunday falls on Monday this week at The Other McCain.

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