"New Categories" written by News on estrip.org

Category: estrip

07/23/05 06:25 - 84ºF - ID#30128

New Categories

I have added categories to the site. Seeing as this is a community the categories are cross-user. That means, when you add a category, everyone else can use that category. It is ok if the actegories are specific, we will create sets fo categories after we have a bunch of them in the future. To associate a journal with a category, just type the category name into the category box in your journal publish box. If you click on the (?) next to the box you can see alist of all categories already added by other users. Clicking on the category name assigns your journal to that category. You can also add a new category to the list, by typing in a category that doe snot yet exist.

You can update previous journals categories using your journal update icon. You can always change a journal category at any point as well. Once you have a journal asisgend ot a category , that category will show up in a list uner your favorite five list. By click ing on the category, the user is presented with a list of titles that you have associated with that category. Clicking the title load sthe entry.

My plan is to make it so that you can subscribe to a category and then have new posts of that category emailed to you. Or RSS feeds of category.

Permalink: New_Categories.html
Words: 230
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: events

07/20/05 12:52 - 80ºF - ID#30127

Buffalo Infringement Festival

[size=m] What Is The Infringement Festival?[/size]

Various members of Buffalo, New York's arts community have come together to organize the first annual Buffalo infringement Festival

-- An eleven-day event designed to promote eclectic, independent, experimental, and politically charged productions of a wide array of artistic projects including theater, performance art, live installations, street theater, and multi-media presentations.

The "buffalo infringement festival" is the result of six months of planning by an ad hoc collection of volunteers from the local theater and arts community and is a part of the international infringement festival circuit which holds similar events in cities throughout North America including Halifax (June 2-12), Montreal (June 16-26), Ottawa (June 30-July 10, Toronto (July 14-24), and New York City (August 25-September 4). Further information on the international component of the infringement festival can be found at www.infringementfestival.com

We are excited to announce that this event will be held at various venues in the Allentown area.

Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, August 7, 2005

Local writers, directors, and performers – as well as artists from New York City and Montreal – have answered an open call to present their work as part of this new festival. The resulting assortment of activities includes world premieres of one-person shows, gender-reversed productions of classical theatrical pieces, street theatre, political cabaret, puppetry, experimental work, virtual reality simulation, hip-hop, slam poetry, interpretive dance, outdoor screenings of family-oriented films, presentations of poetry readings by area high school students, and much more. No single style or aesthetic predominates; some events

Here is a list of performances

Venues

1. Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St)
2. Nietzsche's Bar (248 Allen Street)
3. Allen/College Promenade (Parking Lot at Allen & College)
4. Day's Park
5. Allen Street Dance Studio (85 Allen Street)
6. Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center (175 Elmwood)
7. Coit House (414 Virginia Street)
8. New Phoenix Theatre on the Park (95 North Johnson Park)
9. Hallwalls (700 Main Street)
10. SoundLab (110 Pearl Street)

Permalink: Buffalo_Infringement_Festival.html
Words: 342
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

07/18/05 10:23 - 80ºF - ID#30126

New formatting options

I just added a new option for

[link=http://www.google.com]Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now.[/link]

I renders like this: Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now.

I also made it so that the (e:name) links can now detect punctuation after them so no more extra space for links like (e:paul)'s journal

Old web link formatting works the same as before, simply type in the whole address and it becomes an address.
--Paul

Permalink: New_formatting_options.html
Words: 91
Location: Buffalo, NY

07/18/05 09:28 - 80ºF - ID#30125

Artvoice Vote

omg, the artvoice survey

is back up but all the answers are gone. I think everyone has to revote. Now it checks your IP as a method to stop you from voting twice. That really sucks for poor people like us who have 3 roomates on one computer network. I guess artvoice just assumes everyone can afford their own connection.

Permalink: Artvoice_Vote.html
Words: 71
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

07/19/05 12:15 - 90ºF - ID#30124

What do do about the site

I have been debating and debating what to do with the site. I think I have decided not to go with the home connection for my $4000 superserver because I don't want the responsibility of keeping it up, seeing as I cannot find a qualified server admin to volunteer or help out.

Dr. Halavais

suggested I talk with a woman named Kera

who is a graduate of the UB informatics dept, web designer at Medaille and knows of a good local hosting company. After getting ahold of her I was able to contact buffalo web hosting

They also seem really nice and local which is good but pretty freakin' expensive. I will end up paying $46/month which is really a lot to me considering I pay it all out of pocket.

We also will be losing shell access and with Buffalo web hosting. Because I don't get ssh and I can't compile my own stuff - blah. A dedicated box with them is really expensive. Around $250/month which is pretty crazy freakin's expensive for a site that is totally free.

I wonder what options the future will hold for (e:strip). Maybe if someone out there is a grant writer, they could help us write for grants. I have no idea where to start on that (e:terry) said he could get us declared a federal non-profit but that still wouldn't help the server situation but may open up more grant opportunities.

So either a grant writer or people will have to donate. However, the best solution is that someone can offer me a really nice job for $40-50k a year where I will work really hard and just pay for it out of pocket. Here is my portfolio

I seriously have no problem paying for it all to support this local community, I just wish I had a bigger personal budget to pull from or didn't have $70,000 in student loans that I will have to start paying next month.

Kera suggest making estrip merchandise that people can buy. I like the idea but who is going to buy a tee-shirt or a coffee mug? Maybe if we put (e:matthew) ' s photos on them! Maybe I will just stick with where we are for now. an not care about the whole local thing.

Permalink: What_do_do_about_the_site.html
Words: 402
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

07/11/05 09:34 - 86ºF - ID#30123

Something fun to play with

I took a break from writing to get some data. Here a made a little fun toy to play with

It turns each entry written by the user into a little red dot. If you roll over them it says the title and if you click it is a link to the print version of the entry.

You can also see them broken down by quantity by date. It is a great way to search the history of the site and for the authors, to see how much work they put in. I am grading my friendships in red dots now, lol.

It's more fun with firefox.

Permalink: Something_fun_to_play_with.html
Words: 121
Location: Buffalo, NY

07/11/05 01:18 - 74ºF - ID#30122

Sign in, sign up

I fixed both login box bugs during sign up and sign in. Now whenever you sign in from the front page, or confirm your email addr when signing up it takes you directly to your journal publish box. Hopefully, this will make it easier for people to publish.

Permalink: Sign_in_sign_up.html
Words: 48
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

07/10/05 03:30 - 85ºF - ID#30121

I added some new keyboard shortcuts

They at least work in Firefox and IE 6. The rest of you with win 98 aol browser, I have no idea.

Here they are:

You can hit ctrl +m from any journal to be taken to your publish box.

Once at your publish box you can now style text similar to the way you do in word. Simply highlight the text and then hold down ctrl + the first lette rof the style name. The text then become wrapped in the style tag.,

e.g type a sentence, highlight a word you want to bol and hit ctrl +b on the keyboard. The text will then be designated as bold text.

This works with
bold = ctrl +b
underline = ctrl +u
italic = ctrl + i
strike = ctrl +s
quote = ctrl +q
highlight = ctrl +h

Permalink: I_added_some_new_keyboard_shortcuts.html
Words: 130
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

07/09/05 04:48 - 79ºF - ID#30120

Multiple User Pic Manager

You can now upload, store and manage multiple userpics. To select the one you want as your default userpic, just click on it. When it turns red around the border you are set to go. You can use this same gallery to delete userpics and to add new ones. To delete a userpic, simply click on the radio button next to the userpic you want to delete and hit the delete button.

Uploading works the same as before. I am probably going to tie in the little image manipulation program from p:labs in the near future.

You can find this userpic gallery by clicking on your userpic on your profile. You can reach your profile, by clickling on your userpic on your journal.

Permalink: Multiple_User_Pic_Manager.html
Words: 126
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

06/30/05 03:33 - 72ºF - ID#30119

Quick Overview Of Updates

I am going to be leaving for camping in tomorrow and just wanted to go over the updatees real quick before I go to bed.

1. The news journal is no longer a group journal. No one else was using it, and it just took longer for stuff to load, deciding if it was a group journal or not each time.

2. The user stats have been moved up the the red stripe at the top of the browser window. When you are on the home page it shows the site stats, when you are on a users journal, it shows the users stats. It is currently not compatible with fast mode. Fast mode still works, but the stats are not updated with each click. I wil fix that when I get back. In the meantime choose stats or fast mode.

3. The site web mail link is now in the link bar.

4. The site dynamically written site search poetry is now in the link bar.

5. The homepage has changed and will continue to change when I get back. Right now it is about positions we are looking to fill.

6. You can read a users profile or edit your own profile by clicking on your userpic. You can use you profile to updat your userpic and usersound.

7. I reduced the size of the contact icons under the userpics to the smaller size ones. The email envelope is now mailbox instead.

I know there were more things but I can't remember them now!

Permalink: Quick_Overview_Of_Updates.html
Words: 249
Location: Buffalo, NY