PowerBlogs.Com Development

I've been rewriting more of the code to optimize posting and editing. In the process, I discovered and fixed a few bugs, though most of them would only be noticeable if one used the rewrite history feature to back-date posts. The rest dealt with the chronological titles archive, which weren't being properly generated for categories.

That being said, posting and editing should be faster then they have been. I uploaded a number of speed optimizations. I've moved more functions over to the schedule/marshal paradign. I also rewrote the core loops in a few commonly called functions for writing archives so that they're now substantially faster. I think that the front archives and complete weekly archives page are now written in about one tenth the time that they had been taking. The chronological titles archive pages now take about half the time that they did previously. The RSS feed generation has been very marginally improved. All in all it should result in a noticeable increase in the speed of posting and publishing changes.

We're on the way to instantaneous publishing. :-)

I just comitted a few changes that should mildly improve the posting and editing speed. These changes won't be as dramatic as the ones from a few days ago, though every little bit helps on the quest to instantaneous response times.

The variables which can stick category lists into the post template now make each category name a link to that category's front page.

I've added two new variables to the post templates — [$CategoriesList$] and [$ParentheticalCategoriesList$]. They allow you to indicate in the post template which category or categories the post is in.