2007-05-13 19:53:11

BartleBlog

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2007-11-20 13:02:31

New blog feature: Spanish translation!

I have decided to make this blog available also in Spanish starting yesterday. ...

2007-08-11 23:15:57

Thinking about this blog.

I suppose it happens to everyone once in a while, and it has happened to me often in the past, but I am thinking if I should keep on writing this blog, or if some large change is needed. ...

2007-08-04 14:49:35

Coming ideas

Nowadays, the very little time I have for personal projects is spent doing things like fixing little things and adding little features to BartleBlog [1] and thinking how I could use GLE and mako templates to create a cool nerdy tool to create charts. ...

2007-05-21 13:18:26

Web Typography

Since I am trying to make my blog into a serious site [1] I decided to take a serious look int web typography. It should be useful if BartleBlog ever gets a second user (which is not precisely coming soon ;-) ...

2007-05-15 14:08:44

BartleBlog live!

I was thinking: how can I implement page previews in BartleBlog? ...

2007-05-15 12:44:44

BartleBlog change: Mako Templates

Since the very beginning, BartleBlog has been using CherryTemplate for its output formatting needs. I like it, because it's very simple. ...

2007-05-13 21:15:49

Sometimes I am stupid. Then again, it doesn't matter, because I am lucky!

I am working on changing BartleBlog so it can be used from scratch. That may sound odd but because I have been using it since day 2 to post this blog, it has grown very organically, meaning there are things that only work because of the way I used it while developing it. ...

2007-05-11 12:01:45

New Bartleblog Feature: Menu Editor

Took a while to implement, but BartleBlog finally got a functional menu editor: ...

2007-05-08 21:05:03

Making your QTextBrowser show remote images

It's remarkably easy to turn your QTextBrowser into a limited web browser, at least good enough to show images from the web. ...

2007-05-05 18:29:56

Giving BartleBlog the push it needs

I found a couple of hours to hack, and decided to spend them on BartleBlog. ...

2007-04-12 17:35:52

New BartleBlog Feature: marketspeak!

Now, I don't know if this is useful, but I do think it's way neat. Inspired by S5_, rst2s5_, and mootools_ I took an hour (or two) and hacked this neat little slide tool. The goals differ from S5 in that I intend to write a frontend, so that you have a sort of very-poor-man's powerpoint, but also in that the output should be simple to embed in other pages so that I can eventually make this a part of bartleblog. Check it out (click to go to next slide, move mouse to the top of the slideshow for controls): .. raw:: html <div class="sl_presentation"> <script type="text/javascript"> new Asset.css('http://lateral.blogsite.org/static/css/slides.css'); slides=[ 'slide0', 'it-s-nerd-oriented', 'it-does-things-simply', 'it-s-very-easy-to-extend', 'and-it-has-kickass-features' ]; var current=-1; var numPages=5; var topMargin=25; var delay=1500; function slide_out() { if ( current > -1 && current < numPages ) { var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({ duration: delay, transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut }); eff1.start({'top': [500]/*, 'height': [0]*/ } ); } } function slide_in() { if ( current > -1 && current < numPages ) { var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({ duration: delay, transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut }); eff1.start({'top': [topMargin]/*, 'height': [450] */} ); } } function next() { slide_out(); current=current+1; slide_in(); }; function prev() { slide_out(); current=current-1; slide_in(); } function controls_in() { var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{ duration: 100 }); eff.start(0); } function controls_out() { var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{ duration: 100 }); eff.start(-100); } </script> <div id="controlBox" class="sl_control" onMouseOver="controls_in(); " > <span id="prev" onClick="if (current > 0 ) {prev();}">&lt;&lt;&nbsp;</span> <span id="next" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}">&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</span> </div> <div class="sl_cover" onMouseOver="controls_out();" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}"></div> <div id="header" class="sl_header"> </div> <div id="footer" class="sl_footer"> Why use BartleBlog </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="slide0"> <h1>Why use BartleBlog</h1> <h2 id="if-you-are-a-nerd">(If you are a nerd)</h2> <table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="docinfo-name" /> <col class="docinfo-content" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th> <td>Roberto Alsina &lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:ralsina&#64;kde.org">ralsina&#64;kde.org</a>&gt;</td></tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-nerd-oriented"> <h1><a id="it-s-nerd-oriented" name="it-s-nerd-oriented">It's nerd-oriented</a></h1> <p>It's trivial to display source code, with proper syntax highlighting.</p> <div class="code-block"><pre><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">base64</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">myFirstFunction</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b64decode</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;YnllIHdvcmxkIQ==&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> <p>Even for things like shell sessions. Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd feature I deem cool.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-does-things-simply"> <h1><a id="it-does-things-simply" name="it-does-things-simply">It does things simply</a></h1> <p>Wanna show a flickr photo?</p> <div class="code-block"><pre><span class="p">..</span> <span class="nt">flickr:</span>: myPhotoTitle </pre></div> <p>How about using openomy.com to share your files? And whatever else you can think of, it probably <strong>can</strong> be done.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend"> <h1><a id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend" name="it-s-very-easy-to-extend">It's very easy to extend</a></h1> <p>Really. It's simple python code.</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines.</li> <li>The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103.</li> <li>The module to do calendars has 72.</li> </ul> <p>If there is a python module or web service to do what you want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple.</p> </div> <div class="sl_slide" id="and-it-has-kickass-features"> <h1><a id="and-it-has-kickass-features" name="and-it-has-kickass-features">And it has kickass features</a></h1> <p>Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one! Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup! Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual code, but the hard part is done!</p> <p>Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's <em>somewhat niche</em> ;-))</p> <p>Now, who else has that kind of thing?</p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> next(); </script></div> There may be an artifact when you slide out the syntax-highlighted boxes, but I have no idea how to fix it. Also, I have not tested it at all in IE, so if it fails there, don't worry, that's to be expected! Next time I speak in public, I may use this :-) And, as a teaser... this is the source for the presentation you just saw: .. code-block:: rst Why use BartleBlog ================== (If you are a nerd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :author: Roberto Alsina <ralsina@kde.org> It's nerd-oriented ------------------ It's trivial to display source code, with proper syntax highlighting. .. code-block:: python from base64 import * def myFirstFunction(): print b64decode ('YnllIHdvcmxkIQ==') Even for things like shell sessions. Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd feature I deem cool. It does things simply --------------------- Wanna show a flickr photo? .. code-block:: rst .. flickr:: myPhotoTitle How about using openomy.com to share your files? And whatever else you can think of, it probably **can** be done. It's very easy to extend ------------------------ Really. It's simple python code. * The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines. * The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103. * The module to do calendars has 72. If there is a python module or web service to do what you want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple. And it has kickass features --------------------------- Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one! Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup! Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual code, but the hard part is done! Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's *somewhat niche* ;-)) Now, who else has that kind of thing? .. _mootools: http://www.mootools.net .. _s5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ .. _rst2s5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/slide-shows.html ...

2007-04-10 23:13:01

Son of BartleBlog XIV: Moo

A new gadget: Mootools based menus. ...

2007-04-08 20:22:33

Son of BartleBlog XIII: your blog software doesn't do this

The nerdiest feature of all time... simple SVN logs. ...

2007-04-08 18:20:13

Son of BartleBlog XII: post in mere seconds

It was pretty hard, but I finally managed to make bartleblog re-render only the necessary pages. ...

2007-04-05 14:37:33

Son of bartleblog XI: the highlight of the syntax

I had a few minutes waiting for yum to do its thing and added a couple of easy features: ...

2007-04-04 11:01:48

Son of BartleBog X: Lots of small things are a big thing

- I did the tag editor: ...

2007-04-03 19:06:36

Son of BartleBlog IX: Eating my own dog food

Even though it's not really ready, I am switching my blog to BartleBlog. ...

2007-04-02 12:42:56

Son of bartleblog VIII: Some Qt love

Now that the backend is still iffy but generates a blog, I finally started showing some love to the UI. ...

2007-03-29 18:43:28

Son of Bartleblog VI: The flickr directive

I added a Restructured Text directive that takes as argument the title of one of your (my) flickr pictures, like this: ...

2007-03-28 17:28:48

Son of bartleblog 5: Menus

Added a Yahoo! Ui menubar generator. It turns this: ...

2007-03-27 12:49:20

Son of Bartleblog IV

Another morning, another feature: archive ...

2007-03-26 18:28:32

Son of Bartleblog III

A couple more hours of hacking, and the templates are all new, and more functional then ever. ...

2007-03-24 09:16:00

A little project, son of BartleBlog

I have been posting this blog using PyDS for over 4 years now. Sadly, the PyDS author seems to have abandoned it. Which is sad, because it's nifty software. ...

2003-10-15 01:00:42

Advogato post for 2003-10-15 01:00:42

Now, if this appears in the site, bartleblog has advogato support.. ...

2003-10-14 22:28:32

Bartleblog and advogato

Hey, it works :-) ...

2003-10-06 16:56:48

Bartleblog now in sf.net

So, the link below will disappear in a minute or two. Right now, you can get it via CVS. ...

2003-10-05 20:42:32

Advogato post for 2003-10-05 20:42:32

Let's see if bartleblog can edit this.... yes? ...

2003-10-05 17:57:36

Bartleblog 0.0.1

I got a few mails asking to see Bartleblog... well, if you have a working PyQt, and a working PyDS (advogato support is totally broken right now), and you have a good backup of your blog, then you may try to get it from here (Use CVS) ...

2003-10-05 17:34:08

klog == bartleblog

I wonder if bartlebog is a good name. It sure is better than klog, and I like XIXth century lit references. ...