Site Updates

Take that, Bank Street!  The remake of my site Rémino ended up not lasting longer than all the work done downtown since the past few years.  Since I’m heading for Japan this year, it’s safe to say that I’ll never see Bank street, or rather “Bankrupt street”, as I like to call it, completely open during summer.

I’m tired of those stupid morrons who love posting spam. Honestly, I wish they’d get all hurt pretty badly. I’ll look for them and drive over them with a pick-up truck. You know, old country style!

I’ve disabled anonymous postings again, and I don’t think I’ll enable it back. I’m sorry about this, but from now on, you’ll have to log in or register in order to be able to post a comment.

I’m sure you can understand. Thanks!

Temporarily, starting today, anonymous comments are disabled. As I always recommend, please login (and create an account prior to do so, if you don’t have one) before posting a comment.

I’m taking that measure because an annoying spammer has been severly abusing my journal since this morning, have been trying to post spam about one certain poker site almost 20 times already.

My spam blocker is deleting them all at the moment they are posting. But just as a precaution, I’ve disabled anonymous comments for now.

Update: Starting today, March 7, anonymous comments have been re-enabled.

Well, after all that time making and using the Kawairo theme I’ve made for my remino.net sites, it’s still not as good as I want it to.

It’s slow. It’s using JavaScript to dynamically resize some elements on the page, because each browser have their own rules (or, rather, exceptions) about Cascading Style Sheets.

I’ve found an interesting page where they have a great layout, using only CSS. The layout all the things I had in mind: variable width for all elements and for different font sizes, logical order of source (better when reading the page without its styling) and two fixed-width sidebars with a wider fluid, resizable column. All that, without JavaScript.

The page in question is “Flexible Layout”. Something I’ll really need to experiment to update Kawairo to stop its dependency on JavaScript.

Just a little note that sometimes I write postings that become articles, hence too long to be on the front page.

In such cases, you can immediately read the first part of it. They are indicated by the words “Long article”. If you want to read the rest, click “Read more” below the text of the article, and you’ll be brought to a page with the complete text of the article.

It doesn’t happen often, just sometimes, like the recent article “A woman is not a rib” and the French one, « Communiqué de l’AARCN ». Make sure you check for that link!

I’ve been trying out Drupal 4.7 Beta 4 since yesterday. Drupal is the system that empowers most of my sites at the moment. The new version in the making is quite promising!

Free tagging, client-side resizable text fields, better user registration system (especially the password reset part), collapsible option groups, great 3rd-party module to create custom views of nodes (views.module), taxonomy can now be restricted (using taxonomy_access.module, now without patches!), and a lot more.

Rémino v24 will be powered by Drupal 4.7 for sure!

(Note: Version numbers of Rémino follow my age.)
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A third-party module for my Drupal system (the “backbone” running most remino.net sites) was displaying an error when a user was posting a comment. However, those comments were posted without any problems.

Line 225 of subscription.module v1.5 had a little mistake. A previous line was loading node data into a variable, which is always in the form of an object, not an array. However, the line in question here was treating that variable as an array.

I replaced this, at line 225:

$new_object = (array_merge($comment, array('parent_uid' => $parent_node['uid'])));


With the following:

$new_object = (array_merge($comment, array('parent_uid' => $parent_node->uid)));


I also corrected the way the author of the module uses Drupal’s t() to display a link in each content node. Not only it will make it easier for translators, but also will keep it grammatically correct.

Now everything is fine!

I’ve disabled the French and Japanese interface on Rémino for now. It seems there’s a problem in the system when it tries to translate the texts.

Spammers beware!

I’ve installed good modules for Drupal in order to block the stupid spam:

Anti-spam modules for Drupal

Blocks spam trackbacks too! So far, it has blocked all the spam on this site.

Rémino is now syndicated on LiveJournal.

See livejournal.com/~reminonikki.