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Wednesday June 25, 2003

Added Calendar to Menu I added a calendar to my "badges" menu on the top left. This is a JavaScript-based calendar that I obtained from Matt Kruse's JavaScript Toolbox. I don't know if I'm satisfied with the green background on the "cal" image, but it'll have to do for now. I've noticed a couple of issues in Safari (too far down and too the right, and doesn't go away like it should), but it seems to work pretty good in IE/Mozilla. I tried disabling dates > today, but couldn't get it to work (yeah, I tried the code from Matt's site).

I don't know if it's worth the effort of talking to Roller's CalendarModel to get the actual days that somethings been posted. However, it would probably be fairly easy to generate a JavaScript array for the current month, rather than an HTML-based <table>.

If you're interested, here's how you can add this sucker to your Roller weblog:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="pathToScript.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var cal = new CalendarPopup("calDiv");
        cal.setReturnFunction("showDate");

        document.write(cal.getStyles());
            
        // Function to get input back from calendar popup              
        function showDate(y,m,d) {
            var day = y+LZ(m)+LZ(d);
            location.href = "$ctxPath/page/$userName/" + day;
        }
    </script>

<div id="calDiv" 
    style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden"></div>

<a href="?" name="calAnchor" id="calAnchor" 
    onclick="cal.showCalendar(this.id); return false">
    Calendar</a>

You can download the calendar.js file from this site, but please don't link to it - I have enough bandwidth problems as is (and I'm going to move it to a new theme name). Enjoy! Posted in General at Jun 25 2003, 09:49:49 PM MDT 2 Comments

Wicked DHTML Roller themes spotted in the wild I spotted some cool DHTML-enhanced themes on FreeRoller today: My own confusion and A Corporate Eejit. Nice work gents - maybe we should add these suckers to the stock list of themes. These themes are a great example of how customizable Roller is and how it's just HTML, so pretty much anything is possible (that is possible on a web page). I'd be willing to bet you could even use Flash and use the RSS Feed for your XML input.

I'm thinking about adding a small DHTML enhancement to Roller. Basically, I'd like to show users a small picture of the theme (using these pictures) when signing up. Let me know if you think this is worth the effort and if so, I'll create a JIRA issue (uh oh, looks like we lost our bug database!). Posted in Roller at Jun 25 2003, 10:58:02 AM MDT 7 Comments

Struts 1.1 Final ~ might be released on Sunday According to the struts-user mailing list, the Struts Dev Team is going to try and release 1.1 Final this weekend! Sweet!

From: Ted Husted
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 2 released
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:30:47 -0700 
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Just a note on the RC2 status.

Martin posted the release vote for FileUpload on Monday, and there
are already 3 binding +1s. <yeah!/>

We've one outstanding Bugzilla ticket against RC2, which we should 
be able to either resolve or postpone. Given the imminent release 
of FU 1.0, I plan to post the Struts 1.1 Final Release vote 
tomorrow, so that we can roll it out on June 29. <double-yeah!/>

-Ted.

This doesn't mean much to me since the current RC2 release works fine for me (if I didn't, I'd use a nightly). However, it's cool that this is finally being released. It's too bad it took so long - such is the nature of open source - I probably won't release struts-resume 1.0 until 2004. And who knows when Roller 1.0 will be released... Posted in Java at Jun 25 2003, 08:34:10 AM MDT Add a Comment