Comments on: [Preview] Magic Announcements

By: Werbeagentur

Werbeagentur — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:59:48 +0000

Thanks for the usefully informations. Could be learn a little bit about it!
Thanks from Germany

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:17:47 +0000

@Matt - thanks for spotting the cause of this. I’d seen the symptoms but hadn’t taken the time to bugfix!

I erroneously assumed that if I set no expiry date, it would set one for me well into the future… not the end of the session. But upon reading the docco for the cookie.js lib:

[expires] - Date object containing the expiration data of the cookie. If omitted or null, expires the cookie at the end of the current session.

Ok, I’ve patched the code to set a cookie into the future. When I release the Magic Announcements code (which I can now do thanks to you!), it’ll be a tribute to man’s struggle to make things work without reading the instructions.

By: Matt Scilipoti

Matt Scilipoti — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:20:49 +0000

I like this idea too. Keep them coming.

Currently, it doesn’t remember what announcements I have already clicked on between sessions. For the Magic Models announcement, it appears that you are using a cookie named “magicmodels_ln”. I have two. Both are set to Exipres: at end of session and Content: 0.7.1. I beleive the second one was created when I “reset cookies” using the Debug Controller. general_notes_ln is set to Exipre at end of session as well.

I don’t believe that it is due to settings in my browser. I have other cookies from you with valid Expire dates.

By: G

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:51:47 +0000

Franks and beans!

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:15:47 +0000

Magical even

By: Ruby on Rails Blog

Ruby on Rails Blog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:12:06 +0000

Since it’s scraping other sources of changes, that does make sense. If you wanted for example, “RubyNews.com” to keep a permanent record of all the scraped mods that your Magic Announcements script was generating, you’d want to post to a permanent page also like you said.

I think this is a great application and i’m very excited to see something so fresh

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:52:10 +0000

@RoRB: My guess would be that search engines wouldn’t see the announcements, unless they can execute the javascript.

For project version announcements, the search engines will still be able to scrap rubyforge, etc to get updates there.

I guess that if you need search engines to collect the information, you might want it to be more permanent that a one-time announcement, though.

Cheers

By: Ruby on Rails Blog

Ruby on Rails Blog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:43:31 +0000

Sure looks great. They make it definetely easier to help people keep track of changes and things that you find cool. Any idea how search engines look at them, since they are cookie based?

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:55:19 +0000

When you specify your announcements, you can include HTML. When the Magic Announcement home page is ready, I’ll provide a demo announcement with a link.

Hmm, I guess the project version announcements could include links to project home pages by default too. That would be nifty.

By: Larry Kelly

Larry Kelly — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:40:57 +0000

Cool! Though, I did expect to click on the magic announcement and be taken to someplace where I could read about the announcement in more detail.