Matt Read, Weblog

Pasteosaurus

2008-04-17T21:31:22-04:00

Jim Whimpey and Brisbane Creative bring you Pasteosaurus. The new PHP pastebin on the block, based on the OSS code from Pastebin.com. The entire systme and codebase was almost completely rewritten by Jim, in aim of simplifying the entire system.

As Jim says on his blog, Every piece of junk I wasn’t using from pastebin has been removed, including DB fields and every file has been reorganised and rewritten in cleaner, smaller and more easily read code. This means it’s now much easier for me to add features, which I’ve already done!

It is quite a lovely pastebin, much faster and cleaner than most of those other big ones. The design is simple yet beautiful; I love to see red and pink in a design. And with the use of Geshi, the syntax highlighting works quite well.

Of course, being a good OSS citizen, the code available for download via the link at the bottom of every page. So let’s not pastebin anymore, let’s Pasteosaurus!

Drunken Monkey Labs, Now In Colour!

2008-04-17T21:30:49-04:00

The Labs have a brand new design. This time I went for a colourful design using the basics, red, green, blue, violet, and yellow, as you’ll see in the background. I tried to carry those colours throughout the whole design. The header is a dark violet to try to dull down the “jump in your face” colours in the background.

I really wanted this design to jump of the page with colour. I tend to design very “monochromatically”, so I hope I pulled it off. With a simple layout and bright colours I think I might have achieved something close to what I imagined. Stay tunned, as there will be a few more updates to the Labs this week as I go through the design and update a few things, and hopefully add even more colour.

Matt Read, The Weblog: Version Oceanus

2008-04-17T21:30:30-04:00

Well my new design, code named Oceanus, is finally (mostly) complete. It’s been up for a while but I just haven’t took the time to talk about it. My goal in this design was to create a simple, easy to read design without being boring, like so many “simple” designs out there.

I also went with a dark background this time, something that prooved harder than it sounds. The dark background In my opinion make it much easier to read on a computer monitor. It also looks … “neater” ;).

My new archives, well, they’re just rockin. I love how they show my “seasonal” posting, and I noticed I tend to post very little in the winter months. Must the cold weather. If you like them I can make the code available, just let me know.

There are still some bugs and improvements to be made, but let me know what you think of “Version Oceanus”. If you are using MSIE, I know, it all looks fubar’ed ;).

Thinking About URI's

2007-04-01T12:26:52-04:00

I’m trying to come up with a new URI design for my site. My thinking is to “version” everything by date. So for example, I could have /blog/post-slug/2007-04-01. There might only be one version of most blog posts, but it would allow for “follow up” posts on the same topic at a letter date.

My second thought is to use the content-type in the URI, /content-type/post-slug/version; Giving something like, /entry/post-slug/2007-04-01, or /page/about/2007-04-01. A URI without the version would simply be the latest version, /page/about. This also lends well to my projects. I would maybe have a content-type of “project”, so I could have /project/tabasamu/2007-04-01 etc.

Thus I could categorize all content by it’s type and version, then further by tags. I’m liking this idea, hopefully I can hack around with Habari a bit and see if I can make it work. Here’s hoping post-slugs are not unique, as they shouldn’t be (for my case anyway ;) ).