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rubyhacker
I upgraded Typo to 2.5.0 several days ago, and I like it
even better. (I will eventually make this blog public, or else
there is little point.)
I have a few ideas here. Some may be easy to implement, some may
be harder, some may be bad ideas. Comments welcome.
I'm willing to contribute to Typo myself, but I want to write a
complete Rails app on my own first. I've read tutorials and I've
hacked existing apps... but I want to do one from scratch. There's
nothing like "learning by doing."
1. I'd like to see per-category RSS feeds (perhaps with a link
next to each category, or at least changing the link at the
bottom while you're in that category).
2. I'd like a simple way to reorder the categories.
3. I think when you're in a category, there should be some way to
tell which one you're in -- a subtitle or something at least.
This should be trivial.
4. This may be more controversial. I'd like a way to generate tags
automatically (technorati, etc.). I know the category name is
tagged -- I think it is -- but nothing else is automatic.
As far as tags go, I know the links are "supposed" to be visible.
Yet I don't necessarily like littering a post with links,
especially since some (appropriate) tags may not naturally fit
into the text. The idea I've toyed with is to put a list of tags
at the end of the post -- perhaps in small print, preceded by a
horizontal rule, something like:
------------------------------------------
Tags: foo, bar, baz
I'm not interesting in misleading the reader, of course, just in
comsolidating the tags, making cleaner text, and automating the
tag insertion.
Comments?
Hal
even better. (I will eventually make this blog public, or else
there is little point.)
I have a few ideas here. Some may be easy to implement, some may
be harder, some may be bad ideas. Comments welcome.
I'm willing to contribute to Typo myself, but I want to write a
complete Rails app on my own first. I've read tutorials and I've
hacked existing apps... but I want to do one from scratch. There's
nothing like "learning by doing."
1. I'd like to see per-category RSS feeds (perhaps with a link
next to each category, or at least changing the link at the
bottom while you're in that category).
2. I'd like a simple way to reorder the categories.
3. I think when you're in a category, there should be some way to
tell which one you're in -- a subtitle or something at least.
This should be trivial.
4. This may be more controversial. I'd like a way to generate tags
automatically (technorati, etc.). I know the category name is
tagged -- I think it is -- but nothing else is automatic.
As far as tags go, I know the links are "supposed" to be visible.
Yet I don't necessarily like littering a post with links,
especially since some (appropriate) tags may not naturally fit
into the text. The idea I've toyed with is to put a list of tags
at the end of the post -- perhaps in small print, preceded by a
horizontal rule, something like:
------------------------------------------
Tags: foo, bar, baz
I'm not interesting in misleading the reader, of course, just in
comsolidating the tags, making cleaner text, and automating the
tag insertion.
Comments?
Hal