The Daves Collective

Back with a revamp
2004-05-29 15:18

After a break of four months (for good but unstated reasons), things here are moving again. The site looks very much the same, but it's been refactored to take advantage of Zen's SSI support on their free homepages, enabling common content and presentation throughout the site without lots of duplicated code to maintain and get out of step.

This has also enabled the new content in the right column of most pages. On the front page, this tracks interesting links on a number of topics, with old links automatically expiring as new ones are added. Elsewhere, the right column contains links related to each leaf page's content; the links aggregate automatically at index pages. Each such link is actually an individual story of a parallel Blosxom flavour, generated as static pages and merged into the site using SSI. El Neato or what.

There's also some new content. The new system pages describe various nonbiological entities in the Collective. There are some new files in the Config Bistro, including an XF86Config for the Toshiba Portege 7200 and a Linux 2.4.26 kernel .config for the SGI Indy.

Lastly, the bloody drains blocked again. Fixed now. What a relief.

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