07 June 2004, 21:21 UTCIdeas for Aether
I've just installed aether-1.4 for this website and made a few enhancements that I might submit one day.
They include allowing a blog to select entries from another blog based on tags in the [entry] field. Thus my SoftRaid page has a News section which contains all items from my front page that mention 'raid' in the entry tag.
Also a blog can show just a list of pages (or the summaries there-of), so my Projects page is now a blog of precisely three other pages. These are sorted by modify time.
Other changes I am contemplating include:
- Once a password has been typed in, the "Edit" and "New" links at the bottom of the page become simple links that contain the password. This way I only need to type the password once. There would need to be an easy way to forget the password of course
- Almost all my aether usage is using it as an error document, so the meaningless "me" doesn't appear. But when I edit a page it has to use a real URL, as you cannot post to an error document (I think). The "post" should pass in the preferred prefix so that when I come out of editing, I am back in the error-document space. (Does that make sense to anyone but me).
23 March 2004, 09:37 UTCAether now my home page
I've taken the plunge and made aether my home page.
This required a few modifications to aether so that it could appear as though aether controls the whole name space, but so that pre-existing links still work. You can find the patch I used at /~neilb/aether/.patches/, either in the applied directory if it is still applied to my source, or in the included directory if it has been included unstream.
I hope to eventually move all the content which sensibly can be moved into aether across into aether. Until then, my original home page is still available.
21 March 2004, 21:08 UTCAether for blogging
Well, I've been thinking for a while that I should do something more interesting with my home page, and while I was flipping through the latest fresh meat I discovered Aether which claims to be both simple and competent at managing web pages and blogs. So I though I would give it a try.
My Debian notebook already had python installed, so I followed the instructions and it just worked, except that I needed to remove group-write permission before apache would run it setuid as me.
Whether this whole 'blog' idea will actually work for me I have no idea - I have a tendancy to get excited about something for a while and then loose interest. If that happens here, I guess it isn't meant to be.
