In which I expand my media empire.
About the new site
I’d like to announce a new website I will be working on, called The-Source.com. There are a lot of FLOSS issues I’d like to discuss, but are not related to Mono (or only very tangentially so), and I was offered an opportunity by a Mysterious International Cabal to expand my focus just a bit. We’ve been discussing and working on this site for a few weeks now, and hopefully we are ready to go!
The basic idea is to promote and discuss FLOSS, with a bit more emphasis on the Free aspect. There’s been a downright anti-Free / anti-ideals trending in the FLOSS world for quite sometime, and some of us think the Freedom aspect of FLOSS could use a little positive promotion. I especially welcome feedback on topics you’d like to hear about, and suggestions on how to improve the site quality! I’ve also enjoyed writing a lot, and The Source represents a welcome chance for me to expand my focus and improve my writing. (Not that it kneads any improviment, but One trys to be modestly.)
I’ve done most of the mechanical testing using a similar setup as this site, but I hope we can squash any remaining buggies this weekend! This is why I’m announcing the site now, before I have began posting in earnest. Gives people a chance to kick the tires before they are dazzled by my Shining Insights. Such are the complications one such as I must consider.
About this site
This site will keep focused on Mono/Moonlight/Novell. Most of the basic arguments have been laid out, though – so until new developments appear, there’s not much I can post on. I’m not going to re-hash arguments just to be posting – as I’ve said it’s dishonest to keep repeating the same arguments even if you don’t think the rebuttals are sufficient. Make your case, go a round or two of counter-arguments, and then move on to the next point. Too many people think out-lasting your opponent through repetition means you have “won” the debate. Debate is not a Last Man Standing mode of game play, people.
So, mono-nono isn’t going anywhere, but at the same time, I have to slow the posting volume down, because I think the fundamental arguments have been made. I’m sure things will continue to come up and I’ll cover those as they appear. I’m not sure yet about cross-posting my stuff from mono-nono to The Source, we will have to see about that.
#1 by Jo Shields on August 2nd, 2009
Okay, here’s a bug for you then
See this comment? Click “quote” then “reply”. Works great, yes? Now, reload the page, and do it the other way round – “reply” then “quote”
See the wonderful javascript injected into the comment? Yeah…
Oh, and you still need to come up with a cunning solution to the OpenID icon being hidden behind the user in “recent comments”
#2 by Jason on August 2nd, 2009
Damn. That reply/quote thing is nasty.
More things on my to-do list.
Thanks.
#3 by Anirudh on August 2nd, 2009
Jason,
Simply remove “padding:0 !important;” from your index.php (or whatever generates the class “recentcomments”) and your OpenId icon bug is fixed.
#4 by Jason on August 2nd, 2009
Anirudh,
Thanks much for that!
As it turns out, the “recentcomments” selector is defined in recent_comments_style() in wp-includes/default-widgets.php, and not in a normal .css file.
I couldn’t override it either, because the function produces the CSS later than the “override” section the admin section provides.
Many thanks for the clear fix!
#5 by Jo Shields on August 4th, 2009
Re-broken.
Updated WP lately?
#6 by Jason on August 4th, 2009
Yes just this morning. Am working on re-applying the manual fixes.
#7 by Jo Shields on August 4th, 2009
Yeah, that gets boring. Mine’s patched to send out RSS in the “description” field every aggregator expects rather than the content:encoded that seemingly only WP likes.