Some lists

Kit to-do:

  • Reimplement the <pre> neutering that disappeared when I reimplemented the HTML fixer.
  • Mark feeds for deletion.
  • Steal LiveJournal's <lj-cut> feature, if possible.
  • The Brian St Pierre Memorial Feature: "Hide news posts containing" option on news page.
  • Rework Kit's permalinks to preserve Radio's permalink anchors instead of swapping to a whole new system. Kit can't keep the exact same permalinks, of course, because the URL the item is on changed with the date, but for items that only need moved to make room for a redated post, the permalinks should definitely be kept.
  • Fix the HTML nester. It's added some /</p>s to a few items, and today I saw it break bad on an item from 101-365.
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Movable Type to-do:

  • Rework cleaned-up Random On-This-Day Post code into a plugin. Right now it uses MTPerlScript, so it should be both easy and hard to plugin-ize.
  • Work up a "Post Contents" plugin. For most posts, return the usual 300 words tag. If there's no Excerpt--that is, if MT is generating the post's excerpt from, say, 10 words of the entry content--say 290 more words instead. If the post also had images, say something like 290 more words; 2 images.
  • Colophon.

CS510 Programming Languages project ideas:

  • Simulated world object frobbing language. Prior art includes ZZT OOP, MUF, MPI, all the MUSH code I don't know, um... Also Inform, for intfics; thanks, Adam Vandenberg.
  • Web access log reporting and graphing language. Prior art would include SQL, I guess. gnuplot script?
  • Use o/~ and o/` to denote comments. Backronymize the language's name as "SONG."
  • Instead of if condition blockSignifier, use condition?.
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3 comments

Comments

Adam Vandenberg

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In the world object frobbing category, I’d probably include the Inform language there too (a sorta-functional language that compiles to Z-code, like Zork games.)

Mark

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Ah! Of course. Thanks.

Mark Paschal

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CS510 project:

Mark Paschal CS510 Dr Andy Novobilski Project concept 3 March 2003

My tiny language compiles into C source code that, when compiled, produces a program to output web access log data in Common Log Format (CLF). Output is in textual tables (CSV) or as pie, bar, or line charts as output by gnuplot.

Example input:

list visitors grouped by domain sorted by time graph top 12 referrers sorted by hits