Developing Snipsnap

Introduction

In June 2007, the Snipsnap team stated that development had ceased. The correspondence is at http://www.snipsnap.org, but several users organised the migration of the source code to sourceforge.net. My contrariness mean that it was only after Leo & Funzel moved on to other projects that I decided to investigate certain features. This isn't yet about developing snipsnap, but really about using it, however, my tag cloud ambitions may require me to write a macro.

Javascript

I'd like to add share buttons as appropriate, but I am having difficulty with the http://addthis.com buttons. See Test Page and Share This pages on this site.

I also like to add disqus widgets to allow non users to comment. This requires both testingthe scripts and understanding the snip/blog templates.

HTML

It would be cool to include HTML, especially scripts in a snip. They have a user contributed macro that does this.The following links, all at http://www.snipsnap.org refer.

• mfranken's HTMLmacro
• HTML macro
• Macro Tutorial

These are all a bit old, but Simon Cook found something useful on a .de snipsnap instance that recommended dropping HTMLMacro.jar (from mfranken's HTMLMacro) into ../webapp/WEB-INF/lib. We couldn't find the URL again, but we looked for it using "snipsnap 1.0b3 adding macros" as the search string. This is what we did, i.e. dropped the .jar into the CLASSPATH library and restarted the server, the results can be seen on Test Page, and immediately below. N.B. This server is V1.0b3.

This needs reinstalling after a database rebuild.

This is rendered HTML

Labels

I though it would be good to have tags and tag clouds, so I need to investigate labels. I have found two resources at http://www.snipsnap.org,

• Label
• Category

I have used these to create a category label of "Test Page" and assigned that to Test Page 2

Obviously this page is labeled Snipsnap, and I have now created a Tags master snip, i.e. not subordinate to my user. I am begining to implement search statements, especially on the tag pages to show their subordinates, and the user Dave page, to avoid having to manually maintain the structured index.

I should research the other tag types and see if the taxonomy tag type will help me represent the IT structures I have created, or if I should just network it. I wonder if I could write a tag search macro? Would this require Java?

CSS

It would be good to have CSS rules that optimised for mobile browsers.

Also to set up a media=print set of rules to exclude the sidebar and banner from print requests.

Backups

I need to review my backup scripts and threshold management. It#d be good to mail the phone if I run out of space.