Brainfart

Self-Updating Web Software

Anil announced the recent release of MT 3.12, which has, among other things, automatic generation of .htaccess files for dynamic pages.

One of the great things about Drupal is its integrated URL handling, so that's definitely part of the way to go. Apache, or 'full system' integration is certainly a big step for web software to take. Of course, there are those pesky permissions problems and securities risks...

Here's a little bit I wrote a while back for a file that's in a public folder listing (labeled '!!!_donotclick_youwillbebanned.foo' and w/ a robots.txt Deny rule) to block aggressive spiders:

Just Letter Collaborative Art Project

There's a neat project called Just Letters that is a collaborative refrigerator letters board.

It might be interesting to add presence, chat, side channels, but as a study of group dynamics it's amazingly fascinating. If anything, the only thing I would add would be the number of uses participating.

Also, a God-mode that would allow me to type and pull whatever letters I wanted. in the middle of the board. :)

Site organization

Hmm... some thoughts...

Best way to create project aggregation page that can separate out releases, have description at top. Custom layout, using taxonomies and types may be the way to go.

Front page layout (wish there was better versioning/namespacing (by node?), better read/write control for attachments):