scriptygoddess

1 | Amy

April 28th, 2002 at 11:32 pm

I'm really not sure that any sites besides wondergeeks.net will ever use this code, but I felt a little silly sitting on it and not releasing it. I know I was exceedingly frustrated when I knew what we needed, but just couldn't find any existing solutions to make it work. So I battered my head into my monitor for a couple of days, and voila!

2 | Christine

April 29th, 2002 at 12:26 am

Oh my. That's the best thing since sliced bread – I love it. I've considered a few other solutions – but this looks great! Looking through Amy's other scripts, I wonder if there is some way to tweak MT code to make it pull a "previously on this day" link. Someday…

3 | Lynda

April 29th, 2002 at 12:28 am

LOL Christine. Of course there is.

I wrote about it on this site.

4 | erica

April 29th, 2002 at 7:11 pm

You always floor me Amy.

5 | Amy

May 1st, 2002 at 12:19 pm

I should mention that there's one failsafe that I forgot to build into the code. If a site fails to send the file back to you, weird things can happen. We had that happen the other day when we discovered that one of our syndicated sites was on a machine whose nameservers were on the same network.

When the network went down, the nameservers went, as did the syndicatee's site…and ours got whacked as a result. Heather (urbancombatdriving.com) is supposedly working on a fix; I'll add it into the code and make note of it on cat.net as soon as I've got it. Just something to keep in mind.

6 | Lynda

May 1st, 2002 at 12:23 pm

You'd think there'd be a way to say, more or less "If the file isn't there, skip it" ?

Or am I being too obvious and there is no such solution that's workable?