asciimation diary: Sun May 12 | More Community

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Sunday May 12, 2002

More Community

I've had a few more thoughts on the idea of the community ascii animation pages I mentioned above: I think this could really work, but I don't think that the simple implementation I discussed will be enough.

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To make it robust, scalable, and easy to maintain I think I'd write it as a 'proper' application with a real database behind it (probably MySQL). The scary thing is that, when I jotted down a few notes, the overview looked worryingly like a Content Management System (and these tend to be big and complicated - not to mention expensive). So this might take some more time than planned, though on the other hand, it's a much simpler design than most.

Illustrated?

This last article demonstrates a point: this diary is getting (or already was) very boring and technical. And to add insult to injury, where have all the illustrations gone? There were 5 day's worth of entries without pictures. Now fixed a little, though yesterday's post is still a lot of text without pictures.

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