bildr Code update

Any spare moment I get, I have been trying to finish up  the bildrCode beta, but as I get closer, I seem to slow down. The last 10% takes 50% of the time right?

One of the major things I did was not even on my list of things needing to be done. Someone finally wrote a good article on mod-rewrites, and I had to take advantage. For those of you who don’t know…

When you go to http://www.adam-meyer.com/blog/ you are going to my site, and requesting the folder called blog. If you went to blog/this/that, you are going to a folder called that, who is in a folder called this, who is the blog folder. And so on.

Well this Rewrite thing changes all of that. You can have adam.com/400 actually go to adam.com/includes/files/api/index.php?fileId=400. So I took this idea and made the bildr code URLs much nicer. Before you would download a file and it would be like code.bildr.org/includes/php/download.php?id=82 . But now is actually code.bildr.org/82.zip . I made a rule that when you see the .zip extension, that the person actually wants “/includes/php/download.php”. This is also good, because now hovering over the link, the person knows they are about to download a zip file. I did the same for the dynamic java script files used to embed the bildrCode into the wiki articles. code.bildr.org/includes/php/render.php?id=795 is now code.bildr.org/795.js . I actually went a little nuts on the last one and actually made the page output a legit javascript file where before it thought it was html.

I also cleaned up/ rearranged the site a bit. Added some icons. Oh icons, what a pain you are, and how I wish I had a graphic designer to work with. All mine seem to be shots in the dark until I hot something. New is the ability to commit your session and comment on it. This is a change from before where you your session was committed automatically. I think this change makes it a little more like SVN.

So speaking of Icons, here are some boxes I was working with. Feel free to use them if you can. There is a PDF link below.

PDF here

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