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October 22, 2003

New Entry Engine

There is now a new entry engine in place; this should make no difference in aesthetics; this new engine was written for performance's sake.

We're trying to rewrite a lot of the core code so that the site doesn't hit the database as much but relies more on memory... let's hope it works

Please let us know if you find any problems with it (anything regarding entry output or display on any pages containing entries).

Note that we've temporarily disabled the "Jump to Date" feature that used to be found on your archives page.

Thanks!

Posted by tabulas on October 22, 2003 at 06:12 PM | 58 Comments

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Comment posted on December 2nd, 2003 at 09:36 AM

hi. i just want to know.. how do i sort my entries from the OLDEST ENTRY to the LATEST ENTRY? which means the first entry i'd be seeing in my page would be the first one i ever wrote... can that be possible? thanks!!!

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Comment posted on December 2nd, 2003 at 01:57 PM

No.

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Comment posted on October 24th, 2003 at 02:29 AM

u just changed CATEGORIES to paid users only and now i cannot remove the categories that i made before... how can i remove that?....

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Comment posted on October 24th, 2003 at 10:04 AM

Why do you need to remove them? They aren't affecting your ability to post entries...

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Comment posted on October 24th, 2003 at 03:21 PM

yeah but theyre on my profile & its useles...

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:40 AM

Ouch. Sorry about that :D

There's no ability yet to delete categories if you're not a paid member... :/ Sorries.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:47 PM

aaww.. alrighty. im pretty sure u guys could do somethin bout it ;)

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Lotus (guest)

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:08 PM

I see no other way to bring this up, and it's not relevant to this topic at all, but the user "dice" has been spamming her site in what seems to be everyone's journals. I don't particularly like it and I'm wondering if there's a way to make it stop.

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 12:07 AM

You should take note of <a href="http://www.tabulas.com/~tabulas/44541.html">new features</a> that would help you resolve this problem.

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Lotus (guest)

Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 06:12 PM

Much appreciated! Is there any easy way to sniff out their IP using Tabulas?

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dice

Comment posted on October 31st, 2003 at 10:22 PM

HAHAHA! I knew you were gonna cry about it! Damn whore... I already explained to you why I did it but you just wanna keep the situation going! I haven't even been spamming lately and you wanna be a bitch about it ALL OVER AGAIN! Talk about annoying?¿? What is annoying is you telling the whole world about your little stupid worries. And by the way- I'M NOT TAKING YOU OFF OF MY FRIEND'S LIST SO DEAL WITH IT!

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Lotus (guest)

Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 06:49 PM

If you would have taken a moment to read the date on that post I made about you, you would have realized it was made the night of our little dispute. I haven't thought about you since. And now that I have the option to ban you from my journal, I will. Therefore, I won't bother you, and you, hopefully, won't bother me.

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 12:06 AM

I'm only going to warn you once about this: Please do not use my journal as your personal platform to launch attacks on others. Resolve them outside this journal. .

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Comment posted on October 24th, 2003 at 10:05 AM

I would try to resolve it in a manner that doesn't involve administrative action - ask nicely to her to stop posting her URL all around. I really am reluctant to act as the "police" around here ...

But some new features in the works should help with this problem :)

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Comment posted on October 24th, 2003 at 12:27 AM

hm had the same problem too, he/she/it posted some url at the comments at one of my posts... come on comments are supposed to be related to the post right? hm i just deleted that post. but you're right.. and maybe there's supposed to be a rule or something for tabulas users.. much like a do's and don'ts.. and violators get... their account frozen or something.. anyway just an idea, coz really that thing's so damn annoying

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Mr_sandwhichman (guest)

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 06:44 PM

i dont have a question, just here to say. YOU GUYS FUCKIN ROCK!! youre doin an awesome job with this site :)

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 06:24 PM

i got one for ya roy. when you post a post with an image attached, no matter what album you select, it does not put the images to the album.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:34 AM

Um, what are you talking about? I just added it to the album fine...

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 05:56 AM

at the time of posting it didnt function. it also didn't have the message "Your images will be attached to next post submitted to your Tabulas." so I guess in between now and then, you changed something? No idea, but it's working now.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 10:46 AM

No, I haven't touched those files in weeks...

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 12:52 PM

hmm...alrighty then, maybe i was doing something incorrectly.

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 04:54 PM

u just changed CATEGORIES to paid users only and now i cannot remove the categories that i made before... how can i remove that?....

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Daniel (guest)

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 10:32 AM

hi roy! i'm not sure if this has been discussed before but have you considered a "password-protected entry" feature? kind of like a "friends-only" post except friends that are not part of tabulas can still read it with the password. or for posts that you want "some" friends to read but not all on your "friends" list.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:36 AM

The problem here is a matter of logistics:

1.) Do you do password once for all "password protected entry" or is there an individual password for each entry?

1b.) If the former, then you're just adding another security layer on top of "friends-only" whose only purpose would be for non-Tabulas members to view more "secure posts." (Side question: How do you prevent the password from being shared?)

1c.) if the latter, then how do you remember all the passwords?

In all reality, I would probably go with a more refined version of the "friends-only" feautre where you could set up "user groups" to manage privacy levels before hitting up password-protected entries...

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 01:43 PM

I was thinking of something like this but for galleries. I know that you have something like that on tokkiproject, just wondering if you could implement something like this here? ^_^

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 08:08 AM

the current date tag only shows up once, even if you have multiple entries in a day. is there any way we can have a date tag that shows up multiple times in a day too? thanks. ^^

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roy

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:38 AM

I'll look into it

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 05:56 AM

Uhmm. how can i edit my icon thingy? im just new..

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roy

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:38 AM

Styles » Usericons

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spaceinthewho

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 04:09 AM

XML problem:
-I've backed up my entries but any "&" chars in the >title< tags don't parse properly as well as stray < and > characters
-There probably isn't a very elegant fix to this other than doing a find & replace for the "&" char in the title and changing it to "and" or something... probably anything is better than the XML being unwellformed.
-then again... this could just be an XML parser implementation issue (I'm using the MSIE parser & MS Infopath parser)... I'm not sure what the W3C standard says about this.

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spaceinthewho

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 04:10 AM

one more thing to note: the "&" char is fine in the body part.

and perhaps the chars can just be changed to be their formal code (i forget what its called... but how "&" is "&amp", etc. thats actually probably the best solution now that i think about it.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:38 AM

Ooh. I'll work on extending the backups features to be more ... better soon :D

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spaceinthewho

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 04:11 AM

oops... i mean to say the ampersand symbol is "amp" with a prefix & suffix...

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 04:00 AM

roy, after posting i got the following error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/virtual/site170/fst/var/www/html/private/inc/entry.php on line 8

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to rpc.weblogs.com:80 in /home/virtual/site170/fst/var/www/html/private/inc/entry.php on line 8
Connection timed out (110)

It was on my congratulations page, and the post still posted. Just thought I'd letcha know.

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roy

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:38 AM

Do you ping weblogs.com?

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 02:54 PM

ahhh, yep.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:37 AM

if weblogs.com is down, it'll give that error.

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Mr_sandwhichman (guest)

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 02:27 AM

hey i have a question. Where do i go to stop my usericon from showing up on my entries??

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roy

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:36 AM

Styles Tabs » Uncheck "Enable Usericons"

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Mr_sandwhichman (guest)

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:39 AM

Thanks heaps roy! :D

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 03:59 AM

styles >> select the drop down entitled "Entry Display Style" >> select "Minimalist Text".

The alternative is to create your own style, but minimalist works fine for me.

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Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 10:50 PM

Well, this is a bug that's been going on for awhile. When I choose "Gaming" in my Categories, it shows up blank, but the category shows up when I post it.

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Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 11:34 PM

Gaming isn't blank to me... I see posts in it.

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 01:21 AM

Mm, I think you're misunderstanding. When I go to post an entry, there's that little drop down box like for the usericons in comments, except it's for categories. When I click it, all my categories show up, but when I choose Gaming. The box will then become blank. But when I post, it still posts fine (puts it in the Gaming category). The bug is in the display when adding the entry.

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 01:27 AM

Can you provide a screenshot? I have no idea what you're saying...

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 02:48 AM

Ok, check my gallery now. The one with the blank category is what happens after I choose gaming. You'll also notice that "Media Files" only shows up as "Media F"

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roy

Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 09:37 AM

I'm guessing it's some sort of browser bug. There's nothing in the HTML that should be doing that; it's a simple select dropdown.

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phineyae (guest)

Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 08:28 PM

It works now Roy.. ;)

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MindControlMonky

Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 08:00 PM

Oh, and one more thing. I made my own template...but for some reason my header and description aren't showing up.

Gracias.

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Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 11:34 PM

I don't know.. you're probably just not doing the HTML right...

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MindControlMonky

Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 07:58 PM

Hey...I was just wonering how to move my tagboard from the bottom of the page to the top. Thanks.

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Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 11:33 PM

Edit the HTML.

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 08:37 AM

Roy, my above comment was meant for you. DOH!

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phineyae (guest)

Comment posted on October 22nd, 2003 at 07:50 PM

Hi Roy.. My Catagories are not showing when I click on it... Was it something I did maybe?

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Comment posted on October 23rd, 2003 at 08:36 AM

Roy, I also seem to be having a problem with categories. I just noticed that when I make a new post, I cannot assign it a category. I have three categories created.

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Comment posted on October 25th, 2003 at 01:37 AM

The categories don't appear underneath the main entry addition text box? Or do you assign it and it just doesn't assign it properly?

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Comment posted on October 26th, 2003 at 06:20 PM

I cannot seem to assign categories.

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Comment posted on October 26th, 2003 at 09:07 PM

You need to enable categories; it's kinda hard to see (i'll fix that soon) but it's on the same page as where you create categories (there's a link that says "enable categories.")

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