Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.

'Shindig'


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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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Hil R. - Dec 02, 2002 6:38:00 am PST #1809 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

And on that subject, here's yet another little bit of PHP code which checks all tags for whether they have unmatched quotes of any kind in them.

Can URLs have apostrophes in them? Because t a href="http://www.it'satest.com" it's a test t /a creates problems, but I'm not sure if that's something that'll come up in any actual situation. (Forgive me if this has been addressed already. I've been skipping and skimming.)


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 02, 2002 7:52:58 am PST #1810 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I've never met a URL with an apostrophe in it, and I'm pretty sure tha'ts because you're not allowed to use them.


John H - Dec 02, 2002 12:56:08 pm PST #1811 of 10000

Can URLs have apostrophes in them?

Nope. So, not an issue.

stompy feet descending on you and editing you, and what's worse, telling everyone that they've fixed the five thousand unclosed tags in your post.

But what's happening here Angus is that we're building an automated stompy foot here. A kind of stompyfoot-bot or stompatron. So you won't even have the minimal human contact of an actual person judging you and finding you wanting, it'll just be an error message from a block of code.


John H - Dec 02, 2002 12:56:43 pm PST #1812 of 10000

I'm pretty sure tha'ts because you're not allowed to use them.

Are you allowed to use them?


John H - Dec 02, 2002 2:16:45 pm PST #1813 of 10000

OK I re-did the bad-quote-parser so that it returns, like the other one, a one for "something need fixing", a zero for "nothing needed fixing" and a minus-one for the only error I can think of, "where's the damn content?", using Rob's very sensible strategy of keeping the entire universe of negative numbers open for any other errors which we might think of.

You realise of course that if someone's bad typist enough to enter, say:

<a href="[URL]' target="_blank'>

it won't detect it, but hopefully that's a very unusual scenario...


Tom Scola - Dec 02, 2002 2:27:49 pm PST #1814 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

HostRocket's network just had another hiccup, which made me wonder -- if HostRocket were to go out of business and close shop suddenly, would we be able to recreate our environment, i.e. php scripts, database schema, etc, fairly quickly?


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2002 2:58:19 pm PST #1815 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've got everything but the data, Tom.


Jesse - Dec 02, 2002 7:36:11 pm PST #1816 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, how'd we do, bandwidth-wise, in November? And has there been any movement toward putting our archives off-site?


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2002 9:30:19 pm PST #1817 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

November was pretty low: 1,608,4880k. See what difference you can make switching to 5 minute refresh?


Jon B. - Dec 02, 2002 9:42:25 pm PST #1818 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

stompatron

I love this. Or Stompomatic.

You realise of course that if someone's bad typist enough to enter, say:

<a href="[URL]' target="_blank'>

it won't detect it, but hopefully that's a very unusual scenario...

But it won't break the board either, which is the main reason we want the stompatron.