I am now aggregating
my flickr pictures on
tamizhan.com. Overnight, my plugin runs and grabs any new picture I post at flickr.
The sync is an one time static import i.e if I change the title of an existing photo in my flickr account, the change will not get reflected here. I thought of making it dynamic but that would mean checking every photo every night for changes, which has huge bandwidth implications as my flickr account grows (which it should in the coming year).
These fun projects are a welcome diversion, especially since I am having a hectic time at office.
Anyways, next on my plate is AJAXification. Probably followed by a grease monkey user script. That space is looking
more and more interesting with every passing day.
I am a big fan of
nucleus ( which is what is used as the backend script for this site ).
Why ?
The first choice to be made when anyone looks for a weblog script is to decide whether to go for static publishing or dynamic publishing. Dynamic publishing can be a big overhead if you have a lot of visitors and the database chokes on the number of connections per second. On the other hand, static publishing can be a big pain if you change your templates or skins as frequently as I do.
I did play around with
movable type for some time but found it incredibly slow. Again, the fact that 2.51 might be the last free version ( ? ) put me off. I didnt want to get stuck with something which will not move forward unless I pay for it.
I found
nucleus to be a well-designed script with a really cool plugin interface which enables me to extend the script in whatever direction that I want without bothering
karma :-)
I have been writing a few plugins for
nucleus like the
Macros plugin or the
Ping pong plugin or a few others about which you can find more information
here.
Today, I have coded up something which I wanted for a really long time. Click on the comments link and check out my new threaded comments plugin. This is alpha code. So please be gentle with it. If you come across any errors, kindly send me a
mail with a small explanation of what went wrong.
Enjoy :-)
Please ignore this post.
This is only to test the new
Trackback plugin in my blog.
