TagsTagsGulp. Those Digg links are working just a liiiittle bit too well. Help is on the way; we’ve ordered a second machine to distribute some of the load as soon as possible. When the new server’s in place, we should be able to withstand these surges without much noticeable latency. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic, Digg
Our new Digg links are working better than we could have imagined; we’re having another major traffic surge tonight because another LGF post made it to the Digg front page: Digg - German Muslims Seething at Carnival Parade. UPDATE at 2/21/07 8:01:37 am: I should point out that even though Digg makes ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg
In the latest enhancement to the LGF Blog Engine, I’ve used the code from this page at Digg.com to include a little link below each post that shows its current number of “diggs” (votes), with a button to let you quickly submit a digg if you have an account. I also ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Digg, Video
I’ve tweaked the popup article descriptions a bit more, by inserting a quarter-second pause when the mouse hovers over a headline in our Ajax News Feeds section. This way, the popups only appear if you want them to, not if your mouse is just passing over on the way to ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript, Traffic
Another enhancement to the Ajax news feed section of LGF: Yahoo News is kind enough (and non-standard enough) to provide thumbnail photographs in their feeds, so the popup box that appears when you hover over a Yahoo news headline will now include that photograph. Every article description doesn’t contain a ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Another enhancement to our Ajax-driven news feeds: since the handling of the “title” attribute differs so wildly from browser to browser, I’ve implemented a Javascript popup method instead to display the article excerpts. You can see the excerpts by hovering your mouse over a headline; a box pops up showing you ...
LGF, Technical Info, Ajax, Wire Services, RSS, Blogosphere, Javascript
Quite a few bloggers indicated interest in my idea for a bit of code they can paste into a blog template, that will show the last 10 or so LGF headlines as links to those pages at our site. So without further ado, here’s the first release of LGF Headlines. To ...
I’m considering a new feature, and if you’re a blogger I’m curious to know if you’d use it. The idea is to create a simple bit of code you can copy and paste into your blog template, that will display the last 5 or 10 LGF headlines, as links to ...
Again with the technical updates. This time I’ve been reworking the logic of the Javascript code that manages inserting HTML formatting into comments. And speaking of that, here’s a quick tutorial on how to use those links above the comment box that say “Strike | Bold | Italic | Quote ...
Yesterday I made a big improvement to the “Bold, Italics, Quote, Link” features in our comment form, but I suppose it would help if I let people know about it. Here’s the deal: to use the new buttons, first highlight the word or phrase that you want to format by dragging ...