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Due to an odd dream-like state early this morning, which convinced me that someone was roaming my house and made me get out of bed way too early, I’ve fixed my tag archives. You can now browse any tag’s archive and get a feed for any tag. This functionality was brought to you by coffee, lighttpd rewrite rules and the number 42.

I like using ajaxy interfaces in my web apps, and as such I also like the type of status messages that you can achieve using Mochikit. However, sometimes you need to pass a status message between pages (when you’re using raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect() for example) and I just don’t like having two different ways to display things.

To dissolve my perfectionist worries that the standard tg_flash message in a div just doesn’t cut it, I looked at ways of making the message look the same as a status message from my ajax calls.

Updated on 24/11/05 as per Bob’s suggestions.
Updated on 26/11/05 to fix a JavaScript bug in Internet Explorer
Updated on 16/12/05 to fix some typos as pointed out by Tim
Updated on 12/01/06 to reflect changes to the TurboGears jsonify API Continue Reading »

It seems my tag links are broken. I recently upgraded to the newest release of Ultimate Tag Warrior and I have a feeling that’s the root of the problem. I hope to have it fixed soon.

As a little aside, check this out. Someone has far, far, far too much time on their hands. Simply awesome. :)

Around the end of June I switched my server to lighttpd but, due to some unknown issue, all my wordpress pages using rewrites were giving back 404’s - even though the page was being displayed correctly. This basically broke my feeds as most feed readers discard 404’s even if the server passes content back too.

I’ve decided to take the plunge again since both Wordpress and lighttpd have come along a revision or two. I simply want to reduce the amount of memory being used on my Linode and, with a bit of luck and assuming the 404 issue has dissapeared, I’ll have oodles of RAM to spare for other bits and pieces like TurboGears.

Tonight there was a dev chat in #turbogears on irc.freenode.net. It was mainly a run down and discussion of the new features in development for TurboGears 0.9 and the highlighting of certain trac tickets that need to be fixed for 0.9. Lots of interesting stuff was brought up about the new Widgets for on-the-fly generation of forms, especially as widgets are, IMHO, the most exciting addition to the TG world.

If you happened to miss the chat, but still want to know what went on, the transcripts are available in two flavours:

Nice and colourised or plain and raw. Pick your poison, and enjoy. :)

Last week, for no apparent reason, my VDS with Lycos was removed from their system and reallocated to another user.

I still haven’t got down to the nitty gritty of exactly why the server was cancelled, but given Lycos’ previous track record in the way of support that wasn’t the biggest surprise in the world. Most importantly all my emails and the emails of one of my clients, which were being viewed through a webmail app, also dissapeared along with the server.

Given the afore-mentioned support issues I didn’t hold out much hope. Enter Chand, aka Mark, a System Engineer at Lycos who went above and beyond the call of duty to retrieve my data for me. All the emails, mysql data and web files were all retrieved and returned to me by way of SCP.

Chand; Kudos. And, as I’ve already said many, many times during IM conversations with you, Thank You.

For anyone using the Lycos VDS, I would say this to you: Jump ship if you can. The support that the Lycos VDS Team gives is not going to get any better. Quite the opposite IMHO.