Well, I spent a fair bit of time digging through various bits of code today including dumping half of the zope code into Xcode.
So, how do you change dates so that it sticks? That’s the question I was trying to answer (or fix). It’s pretty easy, changing the effective date does work. But it doesn’t update the catalog.
So $SITE_URL/$BLOG/manage just set the effective date to whatever you want (creation date is conveniently listed right above it).
Then in $SITE_URL/manage find portal_catalog, click the advanced tab, and click “update catalog” which is a button near the upper right corner.
Presto, calendar is fixed and the archives pages don’t show entries from months before the date listed.
Well, apparently in the process of attempting to mark entries as Published instead of Draft so they would get indexed by the google sitemap generator and kupu’s linking and what not I once again reset all of the dates to yesterday.
At least I don’t have a lot of entries to fix, yet.
And, before I take flack for labeling it as an issue of COREblog2, I know the underlying problem is with Plone’s handling of dates.
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New black Macbook came today, and I was trying hard to come up with a name I haven’t used yet. I’m currently doing final fantasy characters.
To aid me in the future, I’ve decided to try to form a list of all the names I’ve used. I have often used a system where when a computer changes OS or has a major hardware revision, it gets a new name. ie Porom and Relm are the same system.
Leave comments if you know of one I’ve forgotten!
(Recent on top)
- Beatrix - Black Macbook CoreDuo 2Ghz
- Porom - Ubuntu Breezy Desktop Intel 630
- Relm - WinXP Desktop Intel 630
- Celes - Ubuntu fileserver Dual 600mhz PIII (reboxed, upgraded, formerly InfiniteMonkey)
- Garnet - Linksys Wireless G AP
- Terra - Linksys Wireless G Bridge (to celes)
- Rydia - 12″ Powerbook 867Mhz G4
- Moogle (2) - specs? 1u
- Cecil - specs? 2u
- Moogle - specs? Lasted all of 1 month
- InfiniteMonkey - 600mhz PIII 2u (was formerly one of the tree names until companies changed or something, don’t remember why it changed)
- Malinche - 600mhz PIII 2u (temp name for InfiniteMonkey while Nick had it)
- Hemlock - 600mhz PIII 2u (went to Denmark?)
- Fir - 600mhz PIII 2u
- Tungsten - 400ish Celeron desktop
- Nikola - not sure the specifics on Nikola, Mike should
- Jenolen - PPro 4u
- Exodus - my first server, winNT4… scary, eh?
I have uh… migrated my calendar to Google Calendar.
Nick suggested a week or two ago I should check it out, it had some really neat features, blah blah blah. I was using a system that worked for me based on this site that let me view and edit in iCal/Sunbird via webdav and a relatively limited web display that I never succeeded (or put the effort into) in getting to work how I wanted. Given that my schedule is rather boring it was more a project for something to play with.
At any rate, he commented yesterday that it did have an ical link so I should check it out. Today I did.
Well, I’m sold. I’ve lost the ability to edit locally, but the slick quick entry clinched the deal. It takes a single line of text as entry and parses out the date, time and title. It’s only made one mistake which was based on my tendency to abbreviate pm to p. I ended up with a whole day event named “#6 Final Due 1:40p” incorrect, but it would have been ok.
Since it has the ical formatted output iCal picks it up fairly easily at the overly complicated URL and syncs to my phone.
Oh, and it integrates with the Google home page rather nicely… which also integrates Gmail… Ever feel like Google is taking over the world? I mean, I’m against anyone having a monopoly on any one area, and Google is certainly in a position to do that… but they are doing it because they offer really good software. Oh well.
On the todo list now, some sort of integration back into this site. Want to go a bit more than just a syndication portlet, but haven’t looked too see if there is anything API wise. Rest of the google tools have them though.
Redid categories, this entry is mostly just a placeholder to see if I severely mess up the date sorting when I try to move entries. As mentioned in a previous post, Coreblog2 seems to have entries sorted by date modified, not by date created or published.
[Edit]
Setting effective date under properties for the entry effectively sets the display date, even though entries are drafts not published in the plone workflow. I’m happy to have a new trick.
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Well, it is multi-threaded because this morning its antics are causing the dock to take 5-10 seconds to appear (it’s on auto-hide).
But, I managed to get it give me a couple of seconds to poke at the menu (took 30 seconds to open) and unstack the photos. It’s back to running smooth again. Tip: do NOT use huge stacks, even accidently! It seems to just not be able to handle it. Probably in relation to it’s handling of large numbers of thumbnails.
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Had a day now to play with my new macbook, and I love it. I have the black 2.0Ghz one with a few other upgrades.
The magnetic latch is great. The magsafe power connector seems to work fine for me, most people have reported it disconnects too easily on the MacBook Pro. I have yet to experience that. Just now though it did disconnect because I walked away without disconnecting it (prompting this review) and it dropped without any issue.
The system is plenty fast for everything I’ve tried, I’m going to see about loading up WoW in OSX (if I can find the proper version) and also a BootCamp for some windows gaming.
Aperture on the other hand…. it’s very slick, it has all the features I want… but… well, I’ll echo everyone else, it’s performance sucks. Hands down, awful. I honestly have no idea what it’s doing at the moment, but it’s been doing it for an hour. It froze up when I accidently stacked a 5128 photo project. (Unfroze an hour later and to it’s credit it had stacked them). It has yet to be able to unstack them after several hours at it before I ran out of battery and shut it off. It may be still working on that.
It’s possible that it isn’t multi threaded? CoreDuoTemp is reporting 67C at 2000Mhz but only 54% CPU in use…. that 4% is probably me typing. So, that could be a bit of a performance hit too.
On to tmobile, I added the Tmobile-web or whatever it is plan for $5.99/mo and am pretty happy. With some bit of work and a 3g dialer script for motorola phones I can connect to the internet via a tmobile web proxy. I can check my webmail, even use iChat, type out blog entries, etc. I have no excuses now. Drains the laptop’s battery life pretty fast, but the phone seems to be able to do about 2x talk time that way (I was on for a few hours and it dropped 1/3).
Considering the $19.99 mo internet plan if they still offer it, so I wouldn’t have to use the proxy and could use things like SSH. I’ve seen some AJAX SSH clients though.
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Reuter’s Oddly Enough - Here’s your grenade, you want fries with that?
It’s quite possible that potato fields should be checked for this sort of thing before planting?
*rushes out to McDonalds to get ordinance to take over the world*
(Full text on extended entry in case that link goes away)
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Filed under: Uncategorized — jmac @ 11:24 pm
I’m on a campaign to reduce the number of photos I have since I’ll have to move them to the new laptop when it arrives this week.
The stats at the moment:
Over 13,000 photos
Over 37GB storage used
Oldest photo June 1995
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