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BERJAYAAbout the author

A picture named dw.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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BERJAYATo-Do

Browser-based prefs page.

Editing the glossary.

Edit This Page buttons.

Set up a "user" on redirect2.twitterland.net called "Scripting2" to handle all r2.ly shortened links for Scripting2 users.

Previewing a post before publishing (a Publish button, possibly replaces the Build RSS button).

Right-click menu in editor.

Images.

One template or two?

Template library.

Paragraph-level permalinks as a pref.

The CMS should be time-zone-aware.

Use windowtypes so Cmd-S and Control-S do a proper save (to the server, causing a rebuild).

BERJAYADone

Added day of week to byline text and the "last updated" text on the home page.

The day level Next/Prev links were all fucked. The AddPost routine was initializing the links whether or not the post was new. Now it only does it if they are new. Wrote a utility to fix all the links in case we ever need it again.

We save the templates to the site, and include a comment (automatically generated) in the HTML that says where they are. This way you get a View Source capability for all Scripting2 blogs, automatically. It is on by default but there is a pref as well.

Click on a permalink on a story page, now you go to the beginning of the paragraph, instead of the end. There was confusion between the two uses of the same ID.

The blogroll is saved to the website as an OPML file.

scripting2.com placeholder site is up.

New Tweet button in the Editor window.

When you change the title of a story the URL stays the same.

When you create a new story the previous story is rebuilt because its Next link changed.

The first time you update in a day, all the other pages in the month are now rebuilt because their calendars have a new day.

On the home page, the most recent day's stories are expanded, all other stories are collapsed.

There's now a UI for editing the stylesheet. It synchs immediately when you save it.

When you save the blogroll the Home page is rebuilt.

The blogroll is now editable.

Third-level text is implemented (it was #9 on the original to-do list).

Display bugs in expand/collapse on home page were fixed (#13 on the original list).

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