September 2012
1 post
Private Messages Are GO GO GO!
I’ve finally made private messaging available to all. Verified registered members can access their message box at http://andriasang.com/msg/.
(“Verified” just means that I’ve determined that you’re not a spammer. If you’re a recently registered member, you will not be verified until you’ve posted a comment that convinces me you’re not trying to...
August 2012
5 posts
Topics and Content Organization Things
I’ve added a couple of in-development organizational features to the site.
Topics
Content is now organized into “topics.” These are just like tags, but they can be localized to specific events or happenings — topics, in other words.
Here are some examples
Videos & Trailers
Sales & Rankings
Weekly Ranking 08.13
CEDEC 2012
Tokyo Game Show 2012
...
Full Site Search is Back Baby!
I’ve relaunched the site’s main search tool. You can now conduct searches via the search box in the upper right.
This means that there are now five different ways to search for stuff on the site. You can type something into the box at the upper right and you’ll receive results from the articles and database (images and other types will be added soon). In the individual...
Configurable PHP Classes
The MooTools Class construct lets you pass an options array to the constructor. This means you can have variable parameters — a useful feature when you don’t want to commit to a particular interface, or when you have a large number of options that may or may not be present.
The options can be assigned default values by setting an options array in the Class definition. This default...
3 tags
MooTools Behavior Class
I had a bit of contract programmer work recently (my first contract programming work since Elvis died) which required that I read up on a MooTools class called “Behavior.” Behavior is part of the Clientcide library, which I use heavily on my site. My autocompleter (which won’t be user-facing until I get around to opening up personal message support) is from Clientcide, for...
Inline Search is Back Baby!
I finally got around to fixing the site’s darn inline search tool, which hasn’t been working since… well, I don’t know when it stopped working, really!
Inline search means that you can highlight some text in an article or comment and a window will pop up with search results from around the site that matches the highlighted text.
Click on any of the links to open the...
July 2012
3 posts
Solr 4 Pro Tip
If you’ve upgraded to the alpha version of Solr 4 (as far as I can recall, this wasn’t a problem in the development trunk versions from a couple of months back), and you kept your schema.xml file, you may have noticed that deleteByQuery commands no longer work.
Here’s the simple fix (posted as an image because I can’t make damn Tumblr output code nicely).
Make sure...
I approve of Tumblr's sample API data
… although their OAUTH instructions are lacking. (I’m using the Tumblr API to integrate this blog onto my userpage at my site. Other users will be able to do the same if they wish.) BTW, I’ve been back in America for two and a half years now and I still don’t know if I’ve actually seen a hipster, but I do know that I hate them. Some people say I should go to SF,...
Haro
This is my “personal” blog, but outside of the occasional pics of my adorable nephew Dylan (see attached pic) I’ll mostly be using it as a development blog for Andriasang.com. I’ll be introducing new features here as I implement them, occasionally making fun of how Japanese people speak English, so please confirm it occasionally.
