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The new catonmat.net website.
This is the new catonmat.net website.
I have around 100 ideas of what a modern, state of the art, personal website should have.
I will explain all my ideas in an article series "Designing the new catonmat.net together with me." I have all the ideas on 4 A4 sheets I'll scan and digitalize them as I start writing the articles.
Update: I wrote more than 50 of them down in ideas.txt, take a look. I also published them to catonmat.net as an article: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/50-ideas-for-the-new-catonmat-website/
This readme.txt file will be updated as I go to reflect full history of making the new catonmat.net
I am starting to push code today 2009.12.09.
The new catonmat.net is written in Python and reuses the following Python modules (list is not complete):
* Werkzeug for WSGI and local development HTTP server.
* SQLAlchemy for ORM.
* Memcached for caching.
* Sphinx for searching.
* Pygments for parsing posts and syntax highlighting.
* Mako for HTML templates.
* SimpleJSON for JSON.
* jQuery for AJAX and visual effects.
* repoze.profile for profiling
2011.09.22:
* added apple-touch-icon.png
2010.04.20:
* fixed caching
* added profiling
* added 404 log display to admin
* added exception log display to admon
2010.04.19:
* refactored admin
2010.04.14:
* added /news
* improved admin - can now create new pages and publish them
2010.04.13:
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| * launched the new catonmat! |
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2010.04.12:
* launching the new catonmat
2010.04.11:
* stared adding admin interface
* added login, list posts, edit posts. revision history now gets saved.
2010.04.10:
* added footer
* added retweet, share on facebook and buzz it buttons
* add pages now have unique meta description tag.
* added comment help - instructions how to format comments
2010.04.09:
* articles by page list now works
* added captcha for feedback form and comments form
* added blog service ping script
2010.04.08:
* added related posts
* added search
2010.04.07:
* added user friendly 404 and exception pages
* added easy navigation for article series
2010.04.06:
* improved /tag list and individual post list in /tag/ contents of certain block tags
* added 3 more tests for page parser for ,
and above test
2010.03.16:
* added syntax highlighting for
...
tags
2010.03.15:
* added tests for the new page parser
* added "this space reserved for jelly stains" banner
2010.03.12:
* replaced the state based article parser with a recursive descent one
2010.03.02:
* added pagination for front page
* fixed individual pages that was broken after refactoring
2010.03.01:
* refactored individual page
2010.02.25:
* added wordpress_to_catonmat.py script that converts wordpress to cm db
2010.02.10:
* added page_meta table
2010.02.05:
* front page now works
* added tags icon
2010.02.04:
* factored out individual pages to individual_page.tmpl.html
* worked on front page
2010.02.03:
* added visitors and rss tables
* adding a comment now stores user's info in visitors table
2010.02.02:
* minor css changes
2010.02.01:
* added 301 redirection for broken links via url_maps table
2010.01.31:
* added tags
* all links now have title="" attributes
* added category list and tag list
2010.01.30:
* added comment count and publish time for articles and comments
2010.01.29:
* added categories
2010.01.28:
* short-urls /p/ now fully work
* code style changes
2010.01.27:
* comments now work with and without ajax
* added a message that reminds to submit comment after clicking preview
2010.01.26:
* refactored comment code
2010.01.25:
* comments now work without ajax
* comment permalinks now work
2010.01.24:
* factored code for ajax comments
* worked on comment preview and submit to work without javascript enabled
2010.01.21-2010.01.23:
* didn't do much, added linear comment view
2010.01.20:
* comment textarea box now resizes horizontally via css when replying
* comments can now be submitted via ajax
2010.01.19:
* added /c/ short-url for comments and /p/ short-url for pages
2010.01.18:
* more work on threaded comments
* added basic latex via google charts api
* screenshot_2010-01-18.png
2010.01.17:
* threaded comments now work
* a newline in comments now gets converted into a
* factored preview comment out from html to javascript to catonmat.js file
2010.01.16:
* worked on comment parser
* added stricter comment validation for twitter name and website
2010.01.15:
* 'reply comment' and 'cancel comment' buttons now work
* added a darker border on comment text field focus
* screenshot_2010-01-15.png
2010.01.14:
* factored out javascript code from html to catonmat.js
* added icons for 'reply comment' and 'cancel comment'
2010.01.12-2010.01.13:
* didn't do anything, rested.
2010.01.11:
* worked on threaded comments
2010.01.10:
* worked on displaying comments
* added gravatars for comments
* improved comment validation
* added comment form tabindexes for input elements for better user exp'
* added permalinks for comments
* screenshot_2010-01-10.png
2010.01.09:
* added an explanation why I need your email
* now can submit comment and it gets put in database
* screenshot_2010-01-09.png
2010.01.08:
* redesigned comment form
* added icons for name, email, twitter, website and comment fields
2010.01.07:
* celebrated my birthday
2010.01.06:
* more work on comments, added twitter field for comments
2010.01.05:
* finished comment error checking
* added error and info icons
* worked on comment parser
2010.01.04:
* worked on comment error checking and preview
2010.01.03:
* added comments table, form and worked on comment css
* progress screenshot: screenshot_2010-01-03.png
2010.01.02:
* added page parser: parser.py
* css changes for page content
2009.12.31-2010.01.01:
* new year holidays
2009.12.30:
* added category, calendar and comments icons
* improved how a single page looks
* screenshot of a single page: screenshot_2009-12-30.png
2009.12.22-2009.12.29:
* christmas holidays
2009.12.21:
* made "meet me on" expandable by up/down arrow
* lots of css changes to make "meet me on" look precise to pixel
* added screenshot_2009-12-21.png
2009.12.20:
* added "meet me on: github, linkedin, friendfeed, irc"
* added icons for all these "meet me on" sites.
2009.12.19:
* added excerpt for posts that goes into meta description
* worked on css
2009.12.18:
* a new idea about comment emails
* worked on individual page css and added a border to faux column
2009.12.17:
* now displays individual page from database.
* added a new idea about skribit.
2009.12.16:
* added a new idea about rss.
* added blog_pages table, did some refactoring.
2009.12.15:
* added urlmapper table that maps urls to pages or views
* progress so far: screenshot_2009-12-15.png
2009.12.14:
* added orm tables and 404 logging
2009.12.13:
* more ideas, updates to templates.
2009.11.12:
* added random quotes
* added "meet me on" twitter, plurk, facebook.
2009.12.11:
* created templates/
2009.12.10:
* added ideas.txt with most of the ideas I have for the new catonmat.
2009.12.09:
* updated readme with what Python modules it uses.
* start.
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