http://www.gibberish.com/wkr Formerly known as Wicker: now known as the scourge of the seven content management paradigms Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:02:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, this blog will be going into deep-freeze for a while (and I’ll regrettably have to close all comments shortly, because I don’t want to deal with the spam; email if you want to chat about what you find here). While I launch Fictionsuit, Cornucopt is going to take some ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/04/18/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-content-management-framework/ It’s official: Fictionsuit is now a Ruby on Rails project rather than a Cornucopt project. Sometime after we are satisfied with the footing of Fictionsuit, Cornucopt itself will become a Ruby on Rails project, likely with some subtle shifts in focus as the new language and framework afford. We may actually ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/03/20/hot-rail/ So there’s this interview with Alan Kay, an old-school Apple guy and frequent denigrator of today’s computers. Jes was talking the other day about how Kay’s metaphor of contemporary apps being like the pyramids - brute-force stacks of blocks made possible only by large numbers of Egyptian slaves - was ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/02/17/blockstackers-dyspeptic/ What’s to be done for 0.2, zoomed in a bit: Better admin - about a third done, I’d say. Refactored page object - we’ll include db schema and methods for children/hierarchy and permissions right there on Page by default, instead of relying on pagevars and pagetypes. Some other things might shift around ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/02/16/a-venture-assembled/ Found this paper on something Drupal is preparing or possibly not preparing, called the Content Construction Kit. I don’t know enough about the technical underpinnings of Drupal to be able to say exactly what’s going on here, for example, but even just the beginning of the next page tells me ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/02/03/you-wont-understand-this-but-youll-be-enlightened-when-youre-done/ So I wrote full-text display of articles into the Cornucopt RSS feed after reading this… but before I read the comments. So now I’m wondering why wikis don’t implement a URL blacklisting approach. I’ve been planning to write such a thing for Corny for a while, to support the weblogging ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2005/01/08/feed-me-weird-things/ Preliminary tests on comments are going quite well on the test site, ho ho ho, and I should have some more integrated means of letting people play with them there shortly after new years. 0.2 will likely have a little more development of the adminny stuff, particularly user pages, comment ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2004/12/27/this-ball-of-dung-has-gotten-pretty-big-huh/ Work is proceeding apace on the new hierarchy-related pagetypes, as well as the new-ish pagetype architecture (that is, the total rewrite of the one aspect of Cornucopt that really makes it unique… er, actually, the second total rewrite of said aspect). It turns out that when you make a new ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2004/12/21/its-like-i-can-touch-you/ Like every implementation of Cornucopt (or at least, so I imagine), the seekrit projekt (Codename: Sleeping Princess) will be a mix of actual, formal changes to Cornucopt (that is, pagetypes and libraries that will be part of the distribution) and custom code that remains specific to the project (that is, ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2004/11/22/hierarchy-and-you-actually-me/ 1) We now have in mind, and in the design process, the first major site that will be built on top of Cornucopt. Its needs are fairly specific, as the needs of most CoCo sites will be, so it will distort development in interesting ways. 2) Case in point: I’ll be ... http://www.gibberish.com/wkr/archives/2004/11/20/two-quick-bits/