Synesthesia

I’ve merged the two wikis into a new, single wiki, and changed technology to WikkaWiki.

.htaccess changes should take care of any old links - please let me know of any broken ones by commenting on this post.

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Two updates to the site as alternative ways of navigating the information:

• I’ve been using Ultimate Tag Warrior for some time to tag posts, I’ve now added a tag cloud view
• I’ve added a view of my del.icio.us bookmarks, using this idea from Brian Lamb and Enej Bajgoric.

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Upgraded the site to Wordpress 1.5 without too many headaches. Please let me know of any bugs.

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Please excuse the mess while I transition to my new site layout…
Still to do:

• Work out what to do about displaying archives list
• Re-work “print” stylesheet
• Styling tweaks that I still think are needed
• Restore search capability
• Sort out menu bug on category index pages

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I’ve installed the Three Strikes plugin from Mark Ghosh. Any problems commenting (i.e. keep getting redirected to a strange site) then please let me know by email to blog at this domain.

Credit for pointing to the plugin goes to Charles Arthur

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I’ve updated all the feeds for this site to use Feedburner:

• Blog + Linklog
• Comments
• Latest Oddments
• Wiki Recent Changes

Please point your reader at the new links.

I’ve also updated all the tags in the page header to point to these feeds, so autodiscovery tools like the Bloglines Toolkit from Chad Everett and the new Firebird Live Bookmarks feature will also pick up the correct feeds..

(What do you mean you don’t use those tools yet?)

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Thanks to Johnnie Moore for pointing out that my style sheet was broken on IE6

IE6 doesn’t seem to recognise the max-width tag, so I’ve added an overflow:hidden to the right-hand menu bar that stops it splurging all over the page in IE6 if one of the text items is too long.

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See [bliki]TikiWikiHasGone[/bliki] for details.

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I’ve added a “second wiki”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/wiki/ for no particularly good reason other than I saw how the anonymous author of Weblog Tools Collection had “integrated”:http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/05/wordpress-12-wiki-integration/ [bliki]ErfurtWiki[/bliki] into Wordpress and decided I wanted one too! This one is just for me - a different sort of publishing space without the time-bound nature of the blog but closely integrated into it.

I shall still keep the original, more fully-featured “Tiki-based”:http://tikiwiki.org/ “wiki”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/tiki/ for more collaborative or “major” bits of writing - not quite sure what the difference between the two areas is but they feel as if they both have a place…

+Updated - see [bliki]TikiWikiHasGone[/bliki]+

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Added a wiki page to capture ideas that aren’t yet ready to be articles [wiki]UnwrittenEntries[/wiki]

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Added sidebar lists of Wiki Changes and deli.icio.us links using “CG-Feedread”:http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=85
Minor tweak to suppress feed titles see [wiki]BlogFeedReader[/wiki]

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Something in tikiwiki broke the main database table. I’d restore it from backup but… (you know what comes next). Chance for some “major refactoring” !

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Added sidebar link for my “blogroll”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/sources.php and “my del.icio.us linklist”:http://del.icio.us/synesthesia

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In an earlier post I described first attempt at creating an inline link blog.

After a fair bit of hacking I have achieved the effect I wanted - with the quick links for a given day appearing at the end of that day’s posts.

Details in this wiki entry: [wiki]WordPressInlineLinkBlog[/wiki]

+wiki updated with a couple of bug fixes+

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This post has now been superceded by this one
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As you can see I’ve started the process of moving to Wordpress. Main blog converted, redirect in place for the archives. The sub-blogs are still to be done, as is the final front page design.

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Upgraded the “Wiki”:/tiki/ to “TikiWiki 1.8″:http://tikiwiki.org

Few hairy moments when I thought I’d lost all the pages, but a little hackery of the SQL dump I’d made beforehand meant I was able to restore the data. If you see something that looks broken please let me know

Also I’ve deleted a few superfluous feeds - RSS 2.0 should be enough for now until Atom settles a bit more (IMHO!)

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I’ve been experimenting again… and have moved the Wiki over to the TikiWiki package. On the basis of a few days experimentation this package looks incredibly powerful.

If you have links to the old Wiki please update them. if any .htaccess gurus out there want to advise me on how to set up automatic redirects then all advice welcome!
I’ve added a basic directory-level redirect - if anyone finds examples of links that still go to the wrong place please let me know!

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Have had to take the Wiki offline as one of the scripts was causing my hosts major problems.

updated 07/07/03 the problems were being caused in the RCSLite part of TWiki - this is an optional feature for use when RCS is not available (as it isn’t on my new host) The problem was the rdiff script which calls RCSlite - going off somewhere strange and hitting 95% processor utilisation to the understandable disgruntlement of the host company… I’m experimenting with some other wiki software, hopefully back soon…

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Hyperlinks to broken Wiki deleted
The work following on from ealier posts 1 2 3 was starting to get too convoluted for blog posts, so I‘ve set up a Constraints section on the Wiki, and started to document my process there

Having discovered the Twiki Draw plugin, I think a wiki with a drawing tool could well be the perfect tool for developing this sort of exchange…

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If you can see this entry then you are looking at the new site for my blog - hopefully the DNS entries will propagate fairly quickly…

I’m still with the same hosting company - they are good value and are always very responsive to support calls. I’ve moved hosts from one of their older Unix accounts onto the new Linux space they are offering - faster, better control panel, more up to date features…

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# Have added a feed of recently updated Wiki topics to the side bar Wiki
# Have just installed the “MT-Textile”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php plug-in

(extended entry is just tests)
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Been having problems with the Wiki. I’ve upgraded the Twiki scripts to the latest (Feb 2003) release and all is not well. Frustratingly it appears to work in some areas but not others. I’ve been through the upgrade instructions with the proverbial fine-tooth comb so I’m beginning to conclude it must be something to do with my hosting ISP. Unlike some of the more prolific bloggers out there I find that concentrating on a techie task like that severely reduces my ability and motivation to write… hence the gap…
Update
Did line by line check of the twiki.cfg file and now it seems to be working OK. Hmmm don’t have the satisfying feeling of knowing exactly what made the difference….

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I’m playing with Les Orchard’s MT <-> Twiki interfaces.

Putting related blog entries on the bottom of Wiki pages went OK after a bit of head scratching

The Wiki formatting plugins
XmlRpcToWiki and MTXmlRpcFilterPlugin

seems a bit broken on my installation though… From the error messages I’m getting it’s something to do with the Perl installation… more digging when my brain is working again.
see
ShareAndEnjoy
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[[Sitenews.AddBlogSearch][AddBlogSearch]]
still broken after reinstall of latest perl HTML and SOAP packages…

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New look site live after much caffeine…
Inspiration to start using SMARTY templates from Brad Choate’s Smart templating with Moveable Type.
Germ of the idea to incorporate a seperate site dedicated to my book collection (far from populated yet!) from What Do I Know.
CSS hints on making three columns work from glish.com

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I’ve added an XFML feed to the syndication outputs of the site.
You can see a FacetMap view of this site here
MT template from Ease
Original pointer to XFML from Ben Hammersley

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Added Phil Ringnalda’s PHP blogroll to the site.

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Added email link to entry footer
Tweaked comments templates to keep email addresses hidden
Turned on trackbacks for most recent imported entries, and enabled by default for new ones.
Updated blogroll
Added Amazon wishlist to sidebar
Added wanderlust button, BloggingBrits webring code, blogsnob
sorted div bug on archive pages
Added sitemeter
Updated Individual entry archives using Related Entries Plugin from Kalsey Consulting
Updated Monthly Archive template
Updated Category Archive template
Installed the spiffy MTMacros and have used it to clean up book entries

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OK, I’ve imported all my old stuff and made sure the basics work.
Still to do:
Category archive template tweaks
new stylesheet
finish checking old entries
sort out trackbacks.

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