Well that didn't take too long. Just enough time to open up an account at CodePlex, start a new project, point TortoiseSVN at it, and upload. The biggest time sink was actually the readme file and deciding on the license (I went for the MIT license). […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MORELast time I kind of trailed off. The Archive Calendar was working fine as a Chalk extension and I had a business trip to make for a week and doing the work to change it into a widget wasn't at the top of my list. […]
READ MOREMan, paging — the second bug I'd reported to myself in part 4 — was long-winded, mainly because I was trying to use the built-in paging system and spent far too much time tracing through Graffiti code in Reflector. In the end, I abandoned that line of attack, mainly because I think I'd been gaming GraffitiCMS by creating a "post" called archive, when it was really a list of posts, and the auto-generated default.aspx was all wrong for that purpose. Further investigation will wait for a rainy day. […]
OK the first bug I reported to myself in the previous post was trivial to fix. I changed the PostReader class to add a couple of new methods GetFilteredPostsForMonth(): […]
Not much more to discuss for phase 1 of the Archive Calendar since we've covered the code. This post is a kind of wrap up (although it does contain a couple of warnings at the end) and we'll talk about what you have to do in order for the calendar to actually work and display the archived posts. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREWe're now at the coding climax of this series, writing the code that will actually render the calendar you see on the right. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MORENext up in this series on writing the calendar of archived posts, is the PostsReader class. This class queries the database for the posts for a particular month or a particular day. It utilizes a couple of other helper classes that manage the caching of results, so we'll look at these first. […]