JR: Official U.S. statements on Syria - Aug 27, 2013 - ~ 1:53 p.m. EDT, Tue, Aug 27, 2013 post by the Guardian, summarizing statements made by White House spokesman Jay Carney: Here's a summary of the Carney news conference. Carney said: The president has not made a decision to use military force i... more>>
- Aug 29, 2013 - #syria

JR: Aug 26, 2013 - Diffs between TT and SB - Here are thread titles for the 20 most recently active threads on the front page at ToledoTalk.com as of 9:15 p.m. EDT, 26Aug2013. Only two are about local politics. Perfect Season: The Movie (Toledo Football!) Used or low cost/low mileage tires a... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 29, 2013 - #forums #local #toledo

JR: BoingBoing.net uses Discourse for message board app - Discourse is new. It was released to the public in late 2012 or early 2013. It's definitely a new take on message boards. Jeff Atwood comment at BoingBoing: Discourse is a JavaScript app, so it actually sends very little down over the wire. O... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 27, 2013 - #forums

JR: Resolved - Fix backlinks not working issue - fixed on 26aug2013 What happened? update: 26aug2013 - default status for each backlink was 'x' within the definition of the db table. when inserting a new backlink, the status was not being changed to 'o'. The backlinks link is no longer working.... more>>
- Aug 26, 2013 - #resolved #junco

JR: Junco Perl Modules - Junco Code - Archives.pm Junco Code - Db.pm Junco Code - Dispatch.pm Junco Code - DisplayPageOO.pm - Inside-Out Object Version #juncocode
- Aug 26, 2013

JR: Junco Code - Dispatch.pm - #juncocode package Junco::Dispatch; use strict; use Junco::Modules; my %cgi_params = Function::get_cgi_params_from_path_info("function", "one", "two", "three", "four"); # my $function = $cgi_params{function}; # if ( defined $function ) { ... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 26, 2013

JR: New downtown Toledo development project planned by taxpayer-owned Mud Hens baseball team - Will this quasi-taxpayer-supported (government) entity cannibalize local business? The projects "sounds" good, but microscopic inspection is required. It could be another taxpayer boondoggle, Detroitification project. Unfortunately, no objective in... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 24, 2013 - #toledo #politics #business #sports #media #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Interesting reads from 10-plus years ago at theobvious.com - Open Question: What would you do with RSS Stories and Tools A MetaFilter Proposal September 11, 2001 The Next Usenet The way I see it, we already have about half of the solution implemented. First, there seems to be an almost endless suppl... more>> 19 min read
- Aug 23, 2013 - #history #web #programming #rss #forums #design #blog_jr

JR: Object Oriented Journalism - Redefining or restructuring the news story paradigm. Some of these stories refer to news startup which began in 2011 or 2012. https://twitter.com/CircaNews mediates the relationship between various stories to each other (whether stories are linke... more>> 10 min read
- Aug 22, 2013

JR: Resolved - Test text for the Textile live preview editor - update 21aug2013: have changed to #resolved. This is some test text after reducing the font size from for this pane from 1.2em to 1.1em and reducing the line height from 1.7em to 1.5em. Despite the reductions, the text still displays fine in this w... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #editor #textile #javascript #junco

JR: Resolved - Add client-side Textile markup editor - update 21aug2013: have now tagged this as #resolved. I'm going with the splitscreen setup that is currently in place. No need for a live preview editor on the client side right now. I have auto-save implemented. Some new, interesting code found at ... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #junco #editor #markup

JR: Resolved - Add auto-save and live preview to blog posts - Auto-save implemented on 21Aug2013 Definitely add the auto-save feature when creating/updating a blog post. Client-side JavaScript would send Textile blog post markup to the server (like hitting the post button) at regular intervals. Save interva... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 21, 2013 - #junco #resolved

JR: Resolved - Enhance the split screen posting mode - Completed on 20Aug2013 change the way preview works - done allow for editing existing posts - done when saving a post, allow for continue editing and saving - done Change preview and save actions Existing Actions split screen - typing on th... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #junco

JR: Knitting my first scarf - Finished my first knitting project on July 28, 2013. It was a simple scarf, but it will be warm. Yarn used: Lamb's Pride - Worsted - 85% wool / 15% mohair - net wt: 4 oz (113 g) - approx 190 yds per skein (173 m) - gauge: 4.5 stitches per inch - ne... more>>
- Aug 21, 2013 - #yarn #knitting

JR: Resolved - Fix display of extended ascii characters when editing in splitscreen mode - resolved on 21aug2013: commented out a line of code that encoded entities. I'm still confused about the differences between how client-side JavaScript and basic CGI processing handle extended ASCII characters. It's mainly concerned with double and si... more>>
- Aug 21, 2013 - #resolved #junco