Jason's Recent Weblog Entries
Bloxxsum and Mason Reach Accord
I have finished the integration of the weblogging tool I use
(Bloxxsum) with the website templating tool I use (HTML::Mason). This
means that the "category" and "permanent link" hyperlinks at the right
side of each log entry will now work correctly.
I'm working on a short document to explain this integration, but the
*very* short version is: 1) create a dhandler component in the part of
your Mason components tree which will represent the weblog, 2) hack
Bloxxsum to not require CGI.pm and to work when executed from a Mason
component, 3) set MasonDeclineDirectories to 0 for the weblog's uri
path or portion of your document root, and 4) modify your weblog
dhandler to pass Bloxxsum (as PATH_INFO) whatever you get from
$m->dhandler_arg().
Category: /site
permanent link
Jury Duty, Part I
I've been serving on a civil jury for the last week and a half, and
the experience is really refining my "People's Court"-derived ideas
about how tort cases are handled and my understanding of what
constitutes an expert witness and expert witness testimony. I think I could do a job as an expert in my own fields.
The courtroom is both interesting and boring by turns, but we take a
10 minute break every hour so it's not too challenging to keep alert.
The frequent breaks are something I'll have to remember for the next
time I'm chairing a long meeting.
Category: /life
permanent link