Category Archives: Admin

planet scala now on github

We were talking in #scala about how there was a bunch of infrastructure work I’m supposed to do on Planet Scala but probably never will. They’re basically all to do with the web frontend aspect of it – a logo, a bunch of style oddities, etc.

Thing is, I really don’t care about the web frontend. As far as I’m concerned, planet scala is a feed aggregator that happens to have a web page. I’m not going to take it away or anything – clearly a lot of people like to use it – but it rather discourages me from putting a lot of effort into it. Additionally, I hate doing web development. So there’s not much chance of me actually ever making the web frontend great.

What I really need is someone else to do it for me. Someone who actually cares about the web page, is good at it and has the time to work on it.

If only there were some way of getting a distributed group of programmers with disparate interests to collaborate on a project…

So, planet scala is now available for you to hack on. Feel free to have a play, see if you can get yourself happy with the results, then see if you can get me happy with them so I merge them in to the main planet scala.

Planet Scala gets its own domain

It can now be found at http://planetscala.com/

The old location and feeds will continue to work for the foreseeable future, but I’d appreciate it if people were to start using the new URL instead.

Filtered feed to Planet Scala

I’ve just noise reduced the first feed on Planet Scala, as it really had a bit too much totally irrelevant stuff on it.

Specifically, mine. :-) You guys don’t really need the feed spammed when I decide to write fiction, recipes or whatever. This blog is about a bit too many things, and only a subset are relevant. So I’ve cut it down to only publish the programming related posts.

As always, do let me know if you think there are any other feeds that should be treated similarly.

Planet Scala now running on venus

And boy is it getting dehydrated.

Ahem. Sorry.

I’ve moved planet scala to run on Venus, the successor to planet-planet. This should fix some bugs we were seeing with post titles getting mangled for some feeds. Unfortunately it may also cause your feed reader to go crazy and report a bunch of stuff as new which isn’t. That should be a one off thing though.

That is all.

New site design

As you might have noticed if you don’t just come here via the RSS feed, I’ve spent the last day or two redesigning my site (with a fair bit of help from Victoria). The old layout had started to piss me off – the sidebar always either looked too small or too cluttered whatever I put in it, and the lack of definition for the posts made everything look a bit amateurish.

Which is not to say the new look is a miracle of modern design either, but I’m a lot happier with it.

If you notice any bugs with the new version (stuff I’ve forgotten to update, browser bugs, etc.) please let me know. Particularly those of you using IE (that is, IE7+. If you’re using IE6, get yourself a real browser), as I’ve only tested on firefox and konkeror (the latter is usually bug compatible enough with Safari that I’d expect it to work). Feel free to suggest any visual improvements as well, but I’m more likely to ignore those. :-)