What’s new?

What’s been going on in the world of Adam as of late?

Well you saw a few days ago that I posted an early stage of the bildrCode front end, but I didnt really give you much info on that. I have actually made a good deal of enhancements on this since just a few days ago.

This front end is the part most users will actually use and see when they encounter bildrCode. This is the client end, the part that makes the code so available, and easy to find. This front end is a portal to the real bildrCode that can be embedded anywhere. This portal as seen in my last post was inserted with just a single line. That single line automatically builds this into the site where users can see and copy the code from a project. (as well as download the project if the user was logged in) – These will be placed in the wiki to correspond with the sensor (or other electronic part).

This portal was actually ended up being dumber than I ever thought it would be. As in… when I tried to make this before, it ended badly because I was trying to make it too complex. I wanted the system to only grab what the user needed at that time. But for many reasons, it wasn’t going to work as I would like. So this now actually takes all the code from all the modules in a project and places them together on a list. So if you select a file, it just scrolls to that file.

The addition of code highlighting (changing the color of the code text to match its function) actually takes a long time to render, and some of the portals where taking upwards of 10sec to render every time the page was loaded. This was obviously not ok, so the system actually creates a cache file the first time it is rendered, and is now under a third of a second to render the same thing.

But this gets bilder one step closer to being able to launch later this month (cross my fingers)

A part of bildrCode has been opened up and made available as open source. The code I wrote to allow of tab indents can now be found/ downloaded in the mootools forge. My mooTools class called mooIndent will hopfully come in handy for anyone needing this kind of functionality in your site.

Putting this up on github (required to use the mootools forge) was sadly hard. There is just too much special knowledge needed to make it work correctly. But after 2 weeks (just poking at it here and there) it’s there and ready for you to use. (i know, i know… it kinda specialized)

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