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In my last post I touched upon a concern I had with PAR's description meta-tag which was producing ugly search results for PAR on major search engines. My solution then was to simply remove it completely, but I've since tweaked it so it's present for the main page of PAR, but absent for all individual entries; this way, search engines will come up with their own page description for entries, but lets me specify the site description for the front page. I may extend this change to archive listings.

[ 24 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

I've considered EjectUSB feature-complete since release version 1 (there were 12 beta versions that were not posted here at PAR). All work since then has just been bug fixes and optimizations.

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[ 22 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

Well, I think I got the RSS feed functional finally and added an Atom feed as well... which I think will work. Nucleus came default with RSD support as well, but I don't use that, so it got the axe.

I also implemented better looking URLs for the various entries; basically, the entry number got replaced with the title. It's backwards compatible with the entry numbers though so no links or bookmarks should be broken.

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[ 21 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

I just finished updating the EjectUSB entry with all the new information on version 1.1. In addition, I've uploaded a flash demonstration of EjectUSB in action.

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[ 19 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

Returning visitors might notice the new logo (and favicon!) for the site in the upper-left corner; I figured something obvious to relate this site to things portable would be a good idea and what better than a huge disembodied USB plug?

I'll be adding a charity donation link under entries on this site. If you've enjoyed your visit and are the donating type, you'll have the option to donate to a charity in PAR's name (well, Sean's name really, he's my co-admin and editor; he didn't edit this post, which is why it's so rambling). We'll be starting with a Crohn's disease fundraiser.

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[ 18 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]

I've been having a hard time figuring out how I'm going to handle navigating the site. A chronological sorting doesn't really fit when content isn't really affected by time; since this site is mainly for software reviews, the content's age isn't particularly important. And, well, chronological sorting is the only real option at the moment other than just raw random searches. Category listings, using Nucleus' default method for category presentation, is too clumsy. My only resort seems to be building a custom Nucleus plug-in, so I guess that's what I'm going to do.

[ 13 June, 2008 ] • [ William Hedrick ] • [ Comments - 0 ]