With only two collections of documents, fewer than a hundred transcriptions, and only a half-dozen users who could be charitably described as "active", FromThePage is starting to strain under the weight of its data. All of this has to do with subjects. These are the indexable words that provide navigation, analysis, and context to readers. They're working out pretty well, … [Read more...] about Feature: Data Maintenance Tools
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Podcast Review: "When Communities Attack!"
As predicted earlier, real life has consumed 100% of my energy for the last month or so, so I haven't made any progress on RefineScript/The Straightstone System/curingbarn.com/ManuscriptForge. I have, however, listened to some podcasts that I think are relevant to anyone else in my situation*, so I think I'll start a series of reviews. "When Communities Attack!" was presented … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: "When Communities Attack!"
Progress Report: Printing
I just spent about two weeks doing what's known in software engineering as a "spike investigation." This is somewhat unusual, so it's worth explaining: Say you have a feature you'd like to implement. It's not absolutely essential, but it would rank high in the priority queue if its cost were reasonably low. A spike investigation is the commitment of a little effort to … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Printing
Progress Report: Subject Categories
It's been several days since I updated this blog, but that doesn't mean I've been sitting idle. I finished a basic implementation of subject categories a couple of weeks ago. I decided to go with hierarchical categories, as is pretty typical for web content. Furthermore, the N:N categorization scheme I described back in April turned out to be surprisingly simple to implement. … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Subject Categories
Feature: Comments (Part 2: What is commentable?)
Now that I've settled on the types of comments to support, where do they appear? What is commentable? I've given a lot of thought to this lately, and have had more than one really good conversation about it. In a comment to an earlier post, Kathleen Burns recommended I investigate CommentPress, which supports annotation on a paragraph-by-paragraph level with a spiffy UI. At … [Read more...] about Feature: Comments (Part 2: What is commentable?)