Blog

These are posts about how the website is going, and the problems and design decisions that I encounter

The Gloss Plugin Works! (2010-02-26)

Well, after a few evenings of fiddling with PHP, I think I’ve finally got my simple dokuwiki gloss plugin doing what I want it to. It’s probably still not perfect, and might be improved by adding some extra features, but it’s good enough and it has the ...

Formatting Glosses In Html (2010-02-24)

So, as part of setting up dokuwiki I decided to write a simple plugin to format glosses properly by generating HTML and CSS. That means:

Aligning words in the foreign language with their English translation.
Align morpheme boundaries within the word correctly.

These first two can be accomplished simply by ...

The Ugliness That Is Php (2010-02-24)

Yesterday evening, I had a quick go at programming a plugin for dokuwiki that automatically formats glosses. Dokuwiki itself makes it fairly easy to define new syntax, and really the only downside is the fact that the plugins have to be written in PHP. I’ve (successfully) done my best ...

The Wiki Is Up (2010-02-21)

The wiki is now up again, and I’ve transferred the major content from the previous incarnation. After a bit of thought, I’ve decided to stick with dokuwiki instead of moving to mediawiki or any of the other alternatives.

My major problem now is getting a vaguely consistent look ...

The Blog Is Up! (2010-02-17)

My website finally does something again! Progress has been slow because I decided to gain a bit of experience with Django by building a simple blog. Building a basic blog app with Django is actually amazingly simple, although I suspect that some of the bells and whistles that professional blog ...