4 entries tagged tws

Jeremy’s Weekly Strip completes its first year

Jeremy’s completed the first year of her Weekly Strip: the first strip was Monday 2 April 2001, the 52nd will be Tuesday 2 April 2002 (which she assembled before disppearing to Amsterdam for Easter).

To mark the occasion I am belatedly overhauling the Tcl scripts used to generate the HTML pages that form the index for the strips. Careful readers will have noticed that the old index page had the year 2001 in its URL, despite including all the 2002 strips as well. Basically my indexing script was all organized around generating a single index page. I have now refactored the whole shebang so that not only are there now per-year index pages, all the ones for years beyond 2001 have their own directories (e.g., the index for 2002 is /jrd/2002/ instead of being /jrd/tws-2002.html). There was a little jiggery-pokery required to ensure that existing pages do not move to different URLs (to avoid breaking any links or bookmarks other people might have). Thus last week’s strip remains at URL /jrd/20020326.html, and this week’s /jrd/2002/20020402.html.

Jeremy’s TWS returns

Jeremy’s The Weekly Strip went on something of a hiatus after her trip to Amsterdam over Easter. To celebrate its return I have belatedly moved the TWS files across from the old Alleged Literature web site to alleged.org.uk. In the process I rearranged the directory structure (or URL design, to use TBL’s phrase) to be more consistent—something that required fiddly changes to some 300 or so links in more than 50 files. Luckily all the files are generated automatically so all I actually had to do was tweak three Tcl procedures and TclHTML handled the rest. Smug.

The future is now!

Today and for the next three weeks we are showing the last four episodes of Black Butterflies. Because we were away in Canada for a fortnight, we are posting some of the episodes early. If you want to maintain the weekly suspense between episodes, please simply refrain from following the links until the date written underneath it. Sorry for any confusion.