Slashcode v1.0 Released

Patrick and Chris have been working their kung fu overtime for some time now to clean up Slashcode and release a version one point oh. Its available on Slashcode: if you're interested in setting up your own slashdotesque weblog and are up on mod_perl and apache, you'll enjoy it. With 1.0 out, its time to once again start hammering on new features including wireless device support. I hacked in quickie WAP device support, so if your phone handles it, give it a whirl. Avantgo will be coming soon as well, along with many design improvements that will drastically improve performance (thank god!) and simplify administration, and allow usage on a variety of SQL servers.

Re:Wireless URL

The URL is the same (http://slashdot.org/). Rob simply added a mime redirect to httpd.conf that redirects text/vnd.wap.wml requests to /slashdot.wml. WML has some issues with HTML tags so the WML is basically a stripped-down lowercase HTML version of index page. Viewing comments via WAP is going to take some work becuase viewing 100K of text on a cell phone LCD screen is obviously not feasible so it will most likely be view-one-comment-at-a-time type of scenerio.

You

If you think the Slash code sucks, you have not looked at recently, and don't know what you are talking about. It could stand for a lot of improvements, which we are busy making. But it is far from sucktitude.

If you think Perl is slow, you are a stupid troll. Go away.

If you think SquishZopePHPYourMamaSlash is better than Slash, then by all means, use it and shut up about it.

If you have patches or want to otherwise participate in developing Slash, make sure you post it on the Slashcode site (or better yet, please read the FAQ about how to help [slashcode.com], because if you don't, we might not see your contributions or patches or suggestions.

This has been a public service announcement. You can go back to your hot grits now.

Re:Kung Fu

Sure, along with:

"Hah! Taste my Third Heaven's Gate Parsing Strike!"

"Useless against Golden Willow Parts the Nested Documents!"

And lots of programmers wearing jeans and t-shirts flying around on cables through bamboo forests.

***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START***
***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***

Re:slashcode translations

Not yet -- Slashdot has a lot of tweaks that have to be massaged out but during the next few weeks it will be upgraded to 1.0, then once Slashdot is on 1.0 code base it will stay in synch with the latest-greatest Slash release. I think Slashcode is running on 1.0.

Database Independant Backend...

This is a shameless plug, but can I suggest you guys take a look at DBIx::AnyDBD. It's a module I wrote to greatly simplify making cross db perl DBI applications.

The basics are that you put all your db access methods in a Default.pm file (in the class hierarchy of your choosing). Then when you want to port to a new platform, anything that's different to your original development platform goes in [Driver].pm, where [Driver] is one of Sybase or Oracle or Pg, etc.

This has really simplified things for me on a cross platform development system, and I think it will for slashdot (and other systems) too.

Mail me direct if you have any questions.

Kung Fu

Am I the only one who has visions of two programmers talking out of sync with their mouth movements?

"Huh. So you wish. To review my code. You must be eager. To die. Huh."

slashcode translations

When I loaded slashdot this morning, did
I load a page generated by slash 1.0? That is
the question.